=Adams, Charles Follen.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A humourous verse-writer of Boston, principally known as the author of Leedle Yawcob Strauss. Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems; Dialect Ballads. _Har. Le._ =Adams, Charles Francis.= _Ms._, 1807-1886. Son of President John Quincy Adams, _infra_. An eminent diplomatist, who was Minister to England during the period of the Civil War. He edited The Life and Works of John Adams; Letters of Mrs. Abigail Adams; Life and Works of John Q. Adams; Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams, with Memoir of Mrs. Adams. _See Life by his son, C. F. Adams, infra. Hou._ =Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. Son of C. F. Adams, _supra_. An officer in the Union army during the Civil War, and subsequently an expert in railway science and president of the Union Pacific Railway. Since resigning that office he has devoted his attention to historical writing, his estimates of men and motives often differing materially from those of other writers in the same field. Notes on Railway Accidents; Chapters of Erie; Railroads; A College Fetich; Massachusetts, its Historians and its History; Three Episodes of Massachusetts History; Richard Henry Dana [_infra_], a Biography; Life of Charles Francis Adams. _Hou. Le. Put._ =Adams, Charles Kendall.= _Vt._, 1835-1902. The president of Wisconsin University and formerly of Cornell University. Manual of Historical Literature; Democracy and Monarchy in France; Christopher Columbus. _Har._ =Adams, Francis Colburn.= _Circa_ 1850. A writer of Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms. Manuel Pereira, or the Sovereign Rule of South Carolina; Uncle Tom at Home; Our World, or the Democrats’ Rule; Justice in the Byways; Life and Adventures of Major Potter; An Outcast, a novel; The Story of a Trooper; Siege of Washington, for Little People; The Von Toodleburgs, or the Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family. =Adams, George Burton.= _Vt._, 1851- ----. An historical writer, professor of history at Yale University. Civilization during the Middle Ages; The Growth of the French Nation. _Fl. Scr._ =Adams, Hannah.= _Ms._, 1755-1832. An industrious and painstaking writer on religious and historical subjects, whose chief claim to distinction at present is that she was the first woman in America who made literature a profession. A View of Religious Opinions; History of New England; History of the Jews; Evidences of Christianity. _See Memoir by herself, with additions by another hand, 1832._ =Adams, Henry.= _Ms._, 1838- ----. Son of Charles Francis Adams, _supra_. An historian and political biographer, living in Washington. Life of John Randolph; Life of Albert Gallatin; History of the United States, 1801-17; Historical Essays; Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law. _Hou. Lip. Scr._ =Adams, Henry Carter.= _Ia._, 1852- ----. A political economist of note. Public Debts: an Essay in the Science of Finance; Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816. _Ap._