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Box 3

 Container

Contains 88 Results:

Items found in John Adams's books

 Series — Box: 3
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents Arrangement is by Adams call number. This list does not include stored pieces of broken spines, or actual parts of the books which have simply come detached.John Adams is listed as both the creator and the recipient of items such as notes for himself that likely had no other intended audience. Unless any document is dated, no correlation is made between the date of the book and the date of the item found in the book, nor between Adams's location and the time of the book's...
Dates: 1764-1906

Omitted

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 379
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4

Adams, John, 1735-1846 A.N.; place not identified, 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 380
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents

One paragraph of notes in Spanish. At head: "Marianan, Libro 28.c.12.p.725.1505." (1 p.) Removed from Historia antica, e moderna, 1698, Adams call # 11.1 Folio, p. 725.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Stockdale, John, 1749-1814 Publisher's advertisement; London, 1792

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 381
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents

Four advertisements from London publisher John Stockdale, including William Perry's New Pocket English Dictionary, and Twenty-five Sermons by Jedidiah Morse. (8 p.) Removed from A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle, 1792, Adams call # 12.1 Folio, p. 564.

Dates: 1792

Tree leaves; [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 382
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Includes maple and poplar leaves of various sizes. 14 leaves. Removed from Plutarchi Chaeronensis, 1723-1729, Adams call #: 12.6 v. 3 Folio.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Adams, John, 1735-1826 A.N.; [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 383
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents

Adams's notes on Plutarch; in Greek. These items are available for viewing on the John Adams Library website. (6 p.) Removed from Plutarchi Chaeronensis, 1723-1729, Adams call #: 12.6 v. 3 Folio, p. 506-507.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Jenks, James William. A.N. to John Adams; place not identified, 1825 August 15

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 384
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Translation into English of dedication to John Adams, signed "August 15th 1825 Jas. Wm. Jenks." (1 p.) Removed from Oratio de Socrate, 1796, Adams call #: 12.8 Folio, after title page.

Dates: 1825 August 15

Adams, John, 1735-1826 A.N; [Quincy], 1754-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 385
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents

Adams's notes on Homer; in French. (4 p.) Removed from Homeri Ilia Graece, 1754, Adams call #: 23.9 v. 1, p. 48-49.

Dates: 1754-1836?

Omitted

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 386
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4

Adams, John, 1735-1826 A.N; [Quincy], 1775-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 387
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Preliminary matter which has come detached from volume; is annotated: "This Vol. was printed in 1775..." (1 p.) Removed from A new system, or, an analysis, of ancient mythology, 1775, Adams call #: 23.10 v. 1 Folio first leaf.

Dates: 1775-1836?

Adams, John, 1735-1826 A.N.; [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 388
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
Scope and Contents

Lengthy notes by Adams on the second volume of Ferguson. (2 p.) Removed from The History of the progess and termination of the Roman Republic, 1783, Adams call #: 23.11 v. 2 Folio, p. 158-159.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Adams, John, 1735-1826 A.N.; [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 389 (1)
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Adams's notes on Plato in Greek. Removed from Ton Dionos tou Kassiou Romaikon historion biblia pente kai eikosi, 1592, Adams 31.3

Dates: 1750-1836?

Unidentified. A.N. to John Adams; place not identified, 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 389 (2)
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Note requesting Adams to translate several pages of Dio Cassius into English. Removed from Ton Dionos tou Kassiou Romaikon historion biblia pente kai eikosi, 1592, Adams call # 31.3 Folio.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Unidentified. Ms. poem; place not identified, 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 390
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Poem on small card; not in Adams's handwriting. Begins, "Whenever we will what is good..." (1 p.) Removed from Travels, or observations relation to several parts of Barbary and the Levant, 1738, Adams call #: 32.1 Folio p. 344.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Adams, Charles? A.N.; place not identified, 1790-1800?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 391
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Appears to be notes by Charles Adams in regard to a case for his client Richard Roe, who was overpaid £1000. (2 p.) Removed from A general abridgment of law and equity, 1757, Adams call #: 32.2 v. 14 Folio.

Dates: 1790-1800?

Unidentified. A.N.; place not identified, date not indicated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 392
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Note entitled "Dower" beginning, "Dower at Common law in the third part of all the lands..." (1 p.) Removed from A new abridgment of the law, 1730, Adams call #: 52.2 v. 2 Folio, p. 132-33.

Dates: date not indicated

Adams, John, 1735-1836 A.N.S. [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 393
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Adams makes various notes, including pen trials and mathematical equations; includes wax seal with "A" in middle. (1 p.) Removed from A new abridgment of the law, 1730, Adams call #: 52.2 v.2 Folio p. 314-315.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Lowell, John, 1743-1802 A.N.S.; place ot identified, 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 394
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Legal notes written by Lowell on behalf of his client, John Amory. (2 p.) Removed from A new abridgment of the law, 1730, Adams call #: 52.2 v. 3 Folio p. 24-25.

Dates: 1750-1836?

Unidentified, A.N.; place not identified, date not indicated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 395
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Two fragments of paper, one of which has partial names: "John Fran..."; "Minuty..."; and "William P?..." (2 p.) Found in Opera omnia, 1767, Adams' call #: 62.8 Folio, p. 98-99.

Dates: date not indicated

Adams, John, 1735-1826 and Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. A.N.; [Quincy], 1750-1836?

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 396
Call Number: MS Adams, Series 4
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Two separate fragmented legal notes. Also available online for viewing on the John Adams Library website. (2 p.) Removed from Modern entries: Being a collection of select pleadings in the courts of King's..., 1723, Adams call #: 62.10 Folio, p. [8]-1.

Dates: 1750-1836?