Irene Adams, who for 17 years was office administrator in the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, died on Jan. 10 at Yale New Haven Hospital, after suffering a stroke at her home three days earlier.

She was 82.

Born Irene Litt in New York in 1922, she graduated from Hunter College, where she studied biological sciences. She taught for the Peck Elementary School in Ansonia, and later worked as an administrative assistant at Clinical Analytics Inc. of New Haven.

Adams joined the Yale Boswell Editions in 1983, working in the editorial offices on the third floor of Sterling Memorial Library. She served as administrative associate until her retirement in August 2000.

She was the widow of Dr. Robert Adams, who at the time of his death in 1986 was director of the Waterbury Child Guidance Clinic. She is survived by a daughter, Lisa Adams, of Newburyport, Massachusetts; two sons, Jeffrey Adams of Baltimore, and Jonathan Adams of Silver Spring, Maryland; five grandchildren; and a sister, Dianne Lewitt, now of Los Angeles, California. Her funeral service was held at the Mishkan Israel synagogue in Hamden on Jan. 11.

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