The Committee · The Reading

The Reading

The Committee reads in the open. Here are the documents our method rests on — hosted where we can, linked to stable public copies where we cannot — and our own elaboration as it is written. A committee of correspondence is only as good as its library.

The Documents

• The Rights of the Colonists — Samuel Adams, for the Boston Committee of Correspondence, November 20, 1772. The statement of rights that opens the Boston Pamphlet. Hosted here, in full.
• The Massachusetts Circular Letter — Samuel Adams, 1768. The document that taught the colonies to correspond. Linked edition in preparation.
• Thoughts on Government — John Adams, 1776. In preparation.
• The Declaration of Rights — Massachusetts, 1780, John Adams drafting. Article 19 is our charter; the whole is the context. In preparation.
• The Rights of the British Colonies — James Otis, 1764. The carrier generation begins here. In preparation.

Our Elaboration

• The Adams Lexicon — the vocabulary and the concepts, extracted as we read, each with its modern rendering. In preparation; first entries drafted November 2026.
• The Farmers-General — a study of the Ferme générale, the Quiet Sale's historical type specimen. In preparation; referenced on the Declaration page.

Staging library — it grows as the reading does, and every hosted text carries its source. Nothing here is behind a wall; that is rather the point.