The works of John Adams, second President of the United States : with a life of the author, notes and illustrations by his grandson Charles Francis Adams

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, John, President, U.S., 1735-1826.

Contributor:

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1865.

Physical Description:

10 v. : ill. ( v. 1-2, 5, 7-10) facsims., plates, ports. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1850-56 [v. 1, '56]

Contents:

I. Life of John Adams

II. Diary, with passages from an autobiography. the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

III. Autobiography. Diary. Notes of a debate in the Senate of the United States. Essays: On private revenge ; On self-delusion ; On private revenge. Dissertation on the canon and the feudal law. Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representative, 1765. The Earl of Clarendon to William Pym. Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1768. Instructions of the town of Boston to their representatives, 1969. On the independence of the judiciary : a controversy between W. Brattle and J. Adams, 1773

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IV. Novanglus, or, A history of the dispute with America, from its origin, in 1754, to the present time. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, 15 November, 1775. Thoughts on government applicable to the present state of the American colonies. Letter to John Penn, January, 1776. Report of a constitution or form of government for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1779. Defence of the constitutions of government of the United States of America, against the attack of M. Turgot, in his letter to Dr. Price, 22 March, 1778 (vol. I)

V. Defence of the constitutions ... (vol. II-III)

VI. Defence of the constitutions ... (vol. III., cont.)

Discourses on Davila, a series of correspondence between John Adams and Samuel Adams, on government. Three letters to Roger Sherman on the Constitution of the United States. Roger Sherman to John Adams, in reply. Letters to John Taylor, of Caroline, Virginia, in reply to his strictures on some parts of the Defence of the American constitution. Review of the propositions for amending the Constitution, submitted ... in 1808

VII-VIII. Official letters, messages, and public papers, 1777-1799

IX. Official letters, messages, and public papers, 1797-1801. Correspondence originally published in the Boston patriot. General correspondence, 1770-1811

X. General correspondence, 1811-1825. Indexes.

Notes:

Vols. 2-6 have imprint: Boston, C. C. Little and J. Brown.

"Three hundred copies printed on large paper."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 1, no. 253.