Lida Mayo is chief historian of the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army, and a contributor to the official U.S. Army in World War II series. Aside from this work, her special field of interest is American social history. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century newspaperman George Alfred Townsend. Quotations from the Adams Papers are from the microfilm edition, by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
For further reading: John Adams , by Page Smith (Doubleday, 1962, 2 vols.); Abigail Adams , by Janet Whitney (Little, Brown, 1947).
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