Papers of John Adams, volume 17

Descriptive List of Illustrations

vii [Committees]
The Adams Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE

Douglas Adams

Bernard Bailyn

Frederick D. Ballou

Levin H. Campbell

Caroline Keinath

Pauline Maier †

Catherine R. Matthews

Lia G. Poorvu

Elizabeth Prindle

Alan Rogers

L. Dennis Shapiro

John Walsh

Hiller B. Zobel

EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Joyce O. Appleby

Joseph J. Ellis

Linda K. Kerber

Gordon S. Wood

Deceased

The acorn and oakleaf device on the preceding page is redrawn from a seal cut for John Quincy Adams after 1830. The motto is from Cæcilius Statius as quoted by Cicero in the First Tusculan Disputation: Serit arbores quæ alteri seculo prosint (“He plants trees for the benefit of later generations”).