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Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6
October 1782 – December 1785
Av Adams Adams Family, Richard Alan Ryerson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2839 kr
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“I cannot O! I cannot be reconcil’d to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?” So begins Abigail Adams’s correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as …
Papers of John Adams
January–September 1781
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1378 kr
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In mid-March 1781, John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed …
Papers of John Adams
October 1781 – April 1782
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1378 kr
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The American victory at Yorktown in October 1781 and the fall of Lord North’s ministry in March 1782 opened the possibility that John Adams might soon be involved in negotiations to end the war for American independence. To prepare for the occasion, Adams and Benjamin Franklin discussed in their …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7
January 1786 – February 1787
Av Adams Adams Family, Margaret A. Hogan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1205 kr
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This volume continues the incredible family saga of the Adamses of Massachusetts as told through their myriad letters to one another, to their extended family, and to such other notable correspondents as Thomas Jefferson and Mercy Otis Warren. The book opens in January 1786, when John and Abigail …
Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1 – November 1779 ′ March 1786
November 1779 – March 1786
Av John Quincy Adams, David Grayson Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1982
1419 kr
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Volumes 1 and 2 of the Diary of John Quincy Adams begin the publication of the greatest diary, both in mass and substance, in American History. Recording a span of sixty-eight years, it has been known heretofore only in partial form. When, over a hundred years ago, Charles Francis Adams edited his …
Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2 – March 1786 ′ December 1788, Index
March 1786 – December 1788, Index
Av John Quincy Adams, David Grayson Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1982
1419 kr
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Volumes 1 and 2 of the Diary of John Quincy Adams begin the publication of the greatest diary, both in mass and substance, in American History. Recording a span of sixty-eight years, it has been known heretofore only in partial form. When, over a hundred years ago, Charles Francis Adams edited his …
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
June 1836 – February 1840
Av Charles Francis Adams Jr., Marc Friedlaender m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1707 kr
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The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adams’s twenty-eighth to thirty-second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Buren administration he had helped to elect …
Papers of John Adams
May 1775 – August 1776
Av John Adams, Robert J. Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 1980
2635 kr
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As the American colonies grew more restive, and a break with the mother country ceased to be unthinkable, John Adams was forced to spend less and less time with his beloved family. Although burdened by ever-expanding responsibilities in the Second Continental Congress, he found time for an amazing …
Papers of John Adams
August 1776 – July 1778
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
2754 kr
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These volumes document John Adams’s thinking and actions during the final years of his congressional service and take him through his first five months as a Commissioner in France in association with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee.While Adams was still in Philadelphia, military matters continued …
Papers of John Adams
September 1778 – February 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
2754 kr
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These volumes provide an unparalleled account of the conduct of American diplomacy in the early years of the republic, while the war with Britain continued and after the treaty of alliance with France was signed. John Adams served for ten months as a commissioner to France. Though he was the newest …
Papers of John Adams
March–December 1780
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2839 kr
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On the last day of December 1780, John Adams wrote that he had just spent “the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life.” He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, attempting, without success, to open Anglo–American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 …
