The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-26

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| PROPOSALS BY LITTLE X BROWN
PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN ADAMS,
| Second President Of The United States
| EDITED ny HIS GRANDSON, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
| TINE public will be glad to learn that the pubca-
| ton of the works of JOAN ADAMS, so long de-
| layed, will now be commenced soon an ude-
quate subscription shall have been obtained. II is
intended to embrace in the proposed collection the
| works of MIR. Adams ON Government, already pub
| shed, but now out of print, and a selection from
most voluminous of manuscripts which have
never the light.
The collection is to be made and edited by the
Hon. Charles Francis Adams, the dcpositary of all
| the manuscripts as well of John Adams of his
father the late Iohn Quincy Adams, and is intended
as the first of two great publications, calculating
the history of the rise and progress of these United
States, from the year l76l in which the revolution
airy struggle first began, down to the year lS4S,
| when the younger Adams died.
! The materials for the first of the two works are
much more ample than has generally been sup
posed. John Adams, during nearly all his life,
| scrupulously preserved his papers, and among
them found many of a curious and singularly
| interesting character. Probably the most remark
able, at least in the eyes Of the world will prove to
be Diary, commenced by him early as 1865,
and carried for thirty years. including the largest
portion of his public career. This Diary will be
found to contain great amount of valuable matter
| connected with the early movements of the Revolu
ton in Massachusetts, and to throw good deal OF
new light upon the proceedings OF the great Con
crosses Of l774, IT'S, and l776, at Philadelphia, in
which the writer a conspicuous actor. There
are also notes of the debates during portion of that
PERIOD which, in the dearth Of all knowledge Of
them, will be highly valuable to posterity.
Ii Is well known that intention long
tertained by the younger Mr. Adams to write a
memoir of his father. This, although not entirely
executed, commenced. most interesting
| fragment remains in perfect state, and will be
| pretxed to the present publication. The unexe-
cuted portion will be carried on by the editor, aided
by the discovery of an photographed fragment
of John Adams himself, which will be woven into
the body of his work.
The great difficulty will be in the abundance of
the materials to be gathered out of correspondence
carried on for half century, well as out of un
published reatses of various kinds, rather to bring
them all within reasonable limits for purchasers,
than to short of what will interest the students
| of the national history.
Ii is proposed to issue the work in ten octave vol
| umes. These will include the Essay on the Canon
and Feudal Laws, the Defence Of the American
Constitution, the various editions of which have
been long since exhausted, and the Discourses on
Davlla; TO all OF which illustrations, drawn from
| the unpublished writings of MIR. Adams, sup
piled by the editor from other sources, will be
| added.
| Such selections will be made from the Diary, and
from the private papers, may be considered most
| likely TO promote better acquaintance with the
times in which Mr. Adams lived and ted than is
yet possessed, after all the valuable contrbu
| tons which have already been furnished from
other quarters. On the whole, the publishers con-
| hdently believe that there Is work relating to
the revolutionary history of the United States and
indeed of the times in which Mr.. Adams lived, that
surpasses historical and political value the vol
| umes now offered to the patronage of the Ameri-
M heU stron oil hope hat how
shall find themselves well sustained in this great
enterprise TO be encouraged to GO and perfect
the other and latter part of H. the Life and Works
of the no less distinguished son, John Quincy
| Adams.
The works will be brought out from time 70 time,
commencing during the autumn of lS49 and COM
pleted within reasonable period, consistently
with proper attention To the high character de
signed 10 be given othem and in the folowing order
]. Works upon Government.
2. Political papers, including Controversial Pub
locations OF the Revolution.
| 3. Messages and Public Papers.
| 4. Diary.
5. Private Letters on Public Subjects, INA TO 1901
.. Private Letters from 1856 TO l526
| I. Life, by John Quincy Adams, continued by
the editor.
| ). Original unpublished Letters Of Franklin,
| Jay, Jefferson, the Lees, Laurens, Gerry,
Dana, lizard, and other eminent patriots of
the Revolution.
The work will be beautifully printed in ten vol
umes, in the octave form, each volume containing
from 500 TO 600 pages, and put up in cloth, at the
price of 81 % volume.
A limited number of copies will be struck off on
large paper, and put up in the same style of bind
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ed by the propretors. LITTLE & BROWN,
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