Papers of John Adams, volume 20
Mr Adams presents his Compliments to
Mr Hazard, and returns, with Pleasure, the Proposal for
printing his valuable Collection of State Papers, with a Subscription.1
RC (NHi:Gilder Lehrman Coll., on deposit); endorsed: “Vice Presidt. Adams.”
New York City bookseller Ebenezer Hazard (1744–1817) widely
advertised his plans to compile and print his Historical
Collections; Consisting of State Papers . . . Intended as Materials for an
History of the United States, 2 vols., Phila., 1792–1794. He wrote to
JA on 26 Feb. (Adams
Papers) soliciting his patronage in publishing the work that JA
had identified thus in 1774: “Hazard is certainly very capable of the Business he has
undertaken—he is a Genius.” A full set of Hazard’s edition, once in JA’s
library at MB, has been lost (vol. 4:492; JA, D&A
, 2:109;
Catalogue of JA’s
Library
).