Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1595 to 1848. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1874.
Adams, John Quincy. Born in Massachusetts, 1767-1848. Son of President John Adams, supra. The sixth President of the United States, and a statesman whose writings, though mainly political in their character, include several purely literary works. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory; The Bible and its Teachings; Poems of Religion and Society; Letters on Freemasonry; Lives of Celebrated Statesmen, and many State Papers. See Complete Works, edited by Charles Francis Adams, with Life; also Diary of; Lives by Seward, Quincy, Morse; Histories of the United States by Bancroft, McMaster, Schouler. Published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.