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THE ADAMS PAPERS

The Adams Papers Collection was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society by the Adams family in 1956.  The papers comprise over a quarter million manuscript pages of the letters and diaries of generations of Adams husbands, wives, and children including John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818), John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and Louisa Catherine Adams (1775-1852), and Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) and Abigail Brooks Adams (1808-1889).  The Society microfilmed the entire collection of 608 reels, sets of which can be found in over ninety libraries in the United States and abroad.  It also sponsors the Adams Papers editorial project, which is preparing a comprehensive documentary edition of the papers.  To date, thirty-six volumes have been published by Harvard University Press. For more information click on subjects below:

Telephone: (617)536-4042 E-mail:  adamspapers@masshist.org

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