1. JA sent a copy of Francois d’Ivernois’ La Révolution Française à Genève … depuis le mois d’Octobre 1792, jusqu’au mois de Juillet 1795, 3d edn., London, 1795.

2. By the first week of January, JA and the Adams family circle knew of George Washington’s secret intention to retire at the end of his second term, but JA’s comments here regarding his own political prospects—addressed to his future presidential rival—are notably benign. While JA hinted that rural retirement was on his mind, privately he perceived of his candidacy as a way to keep Federalist ideology afloat. “Either We must enter upon Ardours more trying than any ever yet experienced; or retire to Quincy Farmers for Life. I am at least as determined not to serve under Jefferson. … I will not be frightened out of the public service nor will I be disgraced in it,” JA wrote to AA three weeks earlier, as rumors of Washington’s exit hardened into fact. Modern campaigning was not yet the political mode, but by late spring, four men led in the race to succeed Washington: JA, Jefferson, Thomas Pinckney, and Aaron Burr (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 11:122–123).