Adams Papers Editorial Project
President John F. Kennedy on the Adams Papers Editorial Project: "...it serves as a most valuable chronicle of a long series of lives which stretch down to the present date. And therefore this formidable record of a formidable family deserves the kind of great editorial support which it is now receiving."
项目历史
的 Adams Papers project was founded in 1954 to prepare a comprehensive published edition of the manuscripts written and received by the family of John Adams of Quincy, 麻萨诸塞州. 的 Adams Family Papers manuscript collection at the 麻萨诸塞州 Historical Society forms the nucleus of the project. 除了, the editors have gathered over 27,000 copies of Adams items from hundreds of libraries, 机构, and individuals in the United States and abroad. 的 project's cut-off date is 1889, the year Abigail Brooks Adams died.
Editorial Process
的 editors do not alter the Adamses' words; rather, they continue the search for Adams documents, select the material to be included in the edition, provide a faithful transcription of the manuscripts, and supply annotation. 到目前为止, over 50 volumes have been published by Harvard University Press and are now available online as part of the Adams Papers Digital Edition.
资助者
的 Adams Papers was funded originally by Time-Life Inc. and the Ford Foundation. At present funding is provided primarily by the National Historical 出版物 and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Packard Humanities Institute, with additional funding from 的 Florence Gould Foundation and private donors. Over the years supporters have also included the Lyn and Norman Lear Fund, 的 J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust, 的 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and 的 Charles E. Culpepper Foundation through the Founding Families Papers, Inc.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding the collection or the editorial project, please contact us:
的 Adams Papers
麻萨诸塞州 Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-536-1608
adamspapers@stevejmole.com
John Quincy Adams designed and used this acorn and oak leaf seal after 1830. 的 motto is from Cæcilius Statius as quoted by Cicero in the First Tusculan Disputation: Serit arbores quœ alteri seculo prosint ("He plants trees for the benefit of late generations").
