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"At Piemonts in Danvers, bound to Ipswich. There is a new, and a grand Scene open before me -- a Congress. This will be an assembly of the wisest Men upon the Continent, who are Americans in Principle, i.e. against the Taxation of Americans, by Authority of Parliament. . . . I will keep an exact Diary, of my Journey, as well as a Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress." John Adams, Diary 20, entry for 20 June 1774
From Adams Family Papers, 麻萨诸塞州 Historical Society.
在他生命的大部分时间里, 约翰·亚当斯(1735-1826), kept a series of small manuscript volumes in which he described both daily activities and notable events in which he participated. Much of John Adams's life was spent in service to his country. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, an officially appointed diplomat (who served as a commissioner in France, 英国, 和荷兰, and as minister to the Court of St. James's), vice president and president of the United States.
The 51 manuscript volumes compiled by John Adams date from 1753 to 1804 (with gaps) and consist of personal diary entries, 金融账户, 信件副本, 论文草稿, and notes on books and legal cases. The earliest diaries include John Adams's descriptions of student life at Harvard College, his experiences as a teacher in Worcester, 麻萨诸塞州, and accounts as a lawyer and a member of the circuit court system. 从1774年开始, most of the manuscript volumes describe the events Adams witnessed as a Congressional delegate and diplomat in Europe through the summer of 1786. 最后一个日记(日记46), is actually a series of several loose sequences of pages, and this diary contains sporadic entries from August 1787 through 1804. John Adams wrote a few entries in this diary during his vice presidency (including descriptions of Congressional debates in 1789 and entries written during the summer of 1804 about his daily activities at his farm and home in Quincy, 麻萨诸塞州), but the latest diary does not contain any entries related to Adams's presidency.
All but the earliest of the manuscript diary volumes are part of the Adams Family Papers at the 麻萨诸塞州 Historical Society. These 50 diaries are for the most part very fragile. Most of them are small (4 x 6 inches) manuscript volumes (or gatherings) without covers, 或者用纸质封面. A few of them are bound volumes. They were microfilmed by the 麻萨诸塞州 Historical Society between 1954 and 1959 and the Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive presents grayscale images made from the microfilm.
The Vermont Historical Society owns the earliest diary volume, 1753-1754和1758-1759, as part of the Royall Tyler Collection (gift of Helen Tyler Brown). It is likely that Royall Tyler (1757-1826) borrowed the manuscript volume around 1782 when he was courting John Adams's daughter, 阿比盖尔(1765 - 1813), and received permission from the family to examine some of Adams's legal notes. In 1936, Helen Tyler Brown (a descendant of Royall Tyler) donated her great-grandfather's papers to the Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier. This collection includes the earliest diary of John Adams, but it wasn't identified as such until April 1965, 当温德尔·加勒特, 编辑器, of the Adams Family Documentary Editing Project, realized the small volume (that did not contain the author's name and at one point was mistakenly attributed to "R. Tyler") was in fact the earliest diary kept by John Adams. The volume appears here courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society. The grayscale images were made from black and white photographs. The digital transcription was made from The Earliest Diary of John Adams, L. H. 编辑莱昂纳德·C·巴特菲尔德. 费伯和温德尔D. Garrett, Assistant Editors (Cambridge, Mass, 1966).
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