Adams Family Papers
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm74010199
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Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2009
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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002
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Adams Family Papers 1776-1948 (bulk 1794-1846)
Adams family
Scope and Content Note The Adams Family Papers span the years 1776 to 1948 with the bulk dated 1794-1846. Chiefly comprising correspondence of John Quincy Adams, the collection also includes correspondence and other material relating to Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915), Henry Adams, John Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, and Samuel Adams. Henry Adams included his address to the American Historical Association in a letter dated 1894 to Herbert Baxter Adams. Many of the items are transcripts, photocopies, and other reproductions. Some of the twentieth century items are explanatory cover letters or printed material. Other correspondents include Joseph Blunt, Alexander Hill Everett, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Robert Welsh, Jr.
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Adams, Abigail (1744-1818)
Correspondence, 1790, 1796, 1800, 1813-1815
Lock of hair, undated
Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886)
Correspondence
Miscellaneous, 1851-1853, 1862, 1873
Seward, William H., to Adams, draft with notes, 1861
Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915), correspondence, 1899-1911
Adams, Henry (1838-1918), correspondence, 1863, 1894, 1914
Adams, John (1735-1826)
Correspondence, 1776-1817, 1826, 1948
Miscellany
Commission to Seth Lewis, 1800
Facsimiles of Adams's signature, newspaper clipping, 1938
Will and tombstone inscription, undated
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
1831-1838, 1846, undated
Account of the debate on the annexation of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, fragment, 1838
Deed to Richard Morsell and receipts for payment for land in Washington, D.C., 1840-1847
Land grants
Ormsby, Robert, 1826
Rood, William, 1826
Letter announcing release of Adams from post as resident minister to the Batavian Republic, signed by Timothy Pickering, 1797
“Livre d’or de la Bibliotheque de la Ville de Graned,” copy of page containing Adams’s signature, 1814
Print from engraved portrait, with signature, undated
Remarks to Congress at the death of William Soden Hastings, holograph, 1842, with note by Mary Earle, 1864
Seal impression made by great-granddaughter, Abigail Adams, 1896
Sketches of Adams and other negotiators of the Treaty of Ghent, 1815
Adams, Louisa Catherine (1775-1852)
Correspondence, 1832-1836, 1848
“The Indestructible Church,” leaflet concerning church where Louisa and John Quincy Adams were married, 1941
Poems, 1827, undated
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803), correspondence, 1775-1789