Papers of John Adams, volume 20
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[Committees]
The Adams Papers
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
Benjamin Adams
Douglas Adams
Bernard Bailyn
Frederick D. Ballou
Levin H. Campbell
Joyce E. Chaplin
Rodney Mims Cook Jr.
Robert Pemberton
L. Dennis Shapiro
John Walsh
Hiller B. Zobel
EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Joseph J. Ellis
Linda K. Kerber
Gordon S. Wood
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”).