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• Adams, John Quincy (1810). Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University. 2 v. Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf. ISBN 9781789873467. OCLC 456915710.
• Adams, John Quincy (1874–1877). Adams, Charles Francis (ed.). Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848. 12 v. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 9780836950212. OCLC 559230698.
• Adams, John Quincy (1903). "Life in a New England town, 1787, 1788 : diary of John Quincy Adams while a student in the office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport". Internet Archive. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 749195912. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
• Adams, John Quincy (1913–1917). Ford, Worthington C (ed.). Writings of John Quincy Adams. 7 v. New York: The Macmillan Company. OCLC 564019879.
• Adams, John Quincy (1961). Butterfield, L. H.; Taylor, Robert J.; Ryerson, Richard A. (eds.). The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. OCLC 56354007.
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Online Collections edit

• "The Adams Papers". Founders Online. United States National Archives. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
• Adams, John Quincy. "John Quincy Adams Papers". The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 21, 2019.