1. New York City bookseller Ebenezer Hazard (1744–1817) widely advertised his plans to compile and print his Historical Collections; Consisting of State Papers . . . Intended as Materials for an History of the United States, 2 vols., Phila., 1792–1794. He wrote to JA on 26 Feb. (Adams Papers) soliciting his patronage in publishing the work that JA had identified thus in 1774: “Hazard is certainly very capable of the Business he has undertaken—he is a Genius.” A full set of Hazard’s edition, once in JA’s library at MB, has been lost (vol. 4:492; JA, D&A description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 2:109; Catalogue of JA’s Library description begins Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. description ends ).