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Online Finding Aids Adams Family, Letters, 1673-1954 Contents List About this collection Folder Contents     1 uncataloged material 2 uncataloged material 3 Correspondence and Papers, 1673-1799 4 Correspondence and Papers, 1800-1802 5 Correspondence and Papers, 1803-1817 6 Correspondence and Papers, 1818-1830 7 Correspondence and Papers, 1831-1954     Volume typescript of selected letters     Oversize Folder four uncataloged documents: 3 deeds (1698-1709); one commission (1796)     About this collection This collection contains letters by many members of the Adams family, including Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) [9 letters], John Adams (1735-1826) [11 letters], John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) [65 letters], and Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832) [61 letters]. Many letters are addressed to William Smith Shaw (1778-1826), librarian of the Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and an incorporator of the American Antiquarian Society. He also served as personal secretary to John Adams during the latter's term as President. There is a commonplace book dated 1755, and evidently misattributed to John Adams. Three early deeds, dated 1698, 1705, and 1709, relate to properties owned by the Adams family on the Boston waterfront. There are typescripts of some of these letters in a bound notebook. Collection is item-cataloged; available in Catalogue of the Manuscript Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. 4 vols. (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1979), and in the Manuscripts Department card catalog. American Antiquarian Society 185 Salisbury Street Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634 Tel.: 508-755-5221 Fax: 508-753-3311 e-mail the library Contact Us Staff Directory Site Map Site Index Last updated February 3, 2005 This site and all contents © 2005 American Antiquarian Society