108. “a royal supper”: Ibid., 133.
109. “I found that the business”: Ibid., 118–19
110. “My countrymen”: Ibid., 67–68.
111. Between you and me: PJA, VI, 354.
112. “joy of my heart”: AFC, III, 125.
113. Marie Grand: Ibid., 91.
114. “I am very sincere”:PJA, Ibid., 126–27.
115. The longer I live: Ibid., 244.
116. “observed much”: Hale, Benjamin Franklin in France, 141.
117. “There is [a] danger”: PJA, VI, 254.
118. “Are we to be beholden”: Ibid., V, 174
119. Adams drafted a letter: See ibid., VI, 294–304.
120. all three commissioners: Works, VII, 72–77.
121. “restored to the character”:PJA, VI, 416.
122. “I shall therefore”: AFC, III, 169.
123. “best becomes me”: PJA, VI, 407. 211 he vowed never again: Ibid., 429.
124. “All things look gloomy”: AFC, III, 95.
125. “changed hearts”: Ibid., 111.
126. “some infernal”: Ibid., 173.
127. “You know not”:AFC, III, 174.
128. “But my soul is wounded”: Ibid., 119.
129. “write but very little”: Ibid., 176.
130. “If ever I had any wit”: Ibid., 182.
131. “The climate is more favorable”: Ibid., 178.
132. “the wise conduct”: PJA, VI, 424.
133. translating Cicero: DJA, II, 362.
134. Franklin gave instructions: Oberg, ed., PBF, XXIX, 370.
135. John Paul Jones: DJA, II, 370.
136. “the old conjurer”: Ibid., 369.
137. Do I see that these people: Ibid., 369.
138. Eccentricities: Ibid., 371.
139. “By my physical constitution”: Ibid., 362.
140. “The language is nowhere”: Ibid., 370.
141. “Nobody seems to have”: AFC, III, 209.
142. “Known only to my own heart”: Ibid., II, 407. 216 “If I ever had any”: Ibid., III, 120.
143. “This is a painful”: Ibid., 148. 217 “delight”: Ibid., 1. 217 “a very dangerous man”: Ibid., 48.
144. if “ye were mine”: Ibid., 83.
145. chose him as a delegate: Ibid., 226.
146. a sub-sub committee of one: Ibid., 228.
147. “A Constitution or Form of Government”: See, generally, Works, IV, 219–67.
148. a dinner at Harvard: AFC, III, 225.
149. “flowing” from his pen: Ibid., 226.
150. “I take vast satisfaction”: Works, IX, 509.
151. “None of us”: Ibid., 484.
152. “Be assured you have”: Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, 44.
153. “Upon the whole”: Works, IX, 493.
154. “dismissed without censure”: Ibid., 497.
155. an offer of return passage: DJA, IV, 174.
156. “It will be expected”: AFC, III, 268.
157. “Alas! When I reflect”: DJA, IV, 175.
158. The wind was favorable: Ibid., 235.
159. “My habitation”: AFC, III, 233.
5. UNALTERABLY DETERMINED
1. the Sensible: DJA, IV, 192, AFC III, 237.
2. “We have had”: AFC, III, 243.
3. proceeding overland: DJA, IV, 193.
4. “The season”: Ibid., 205.
5. a scene from Don Quixote: AFC, III, 251.
6. “enemies of all repose”: DFA, IV, 213.
7. We carried: Ibid., 217.
8. “There is the grandest profusion”: Ibid., II, 419.
9. “We had nothing”: D. G. Allen, ed., DFQA, I, 21.
10. “almost perpendicular”: Ibid., 30.
11. “Smoke filled every part”: DFA, II, 416.
12. “We go along barking”: Ibid., 426-27.
13. a mistake coming overland: AFC, III, 258.
14. part with his mule: DFA, IV, 238.
15. “had the honor”: Ibid., 241.
16. “so frank”: Works, VII, 121.
17. a letter of explanation: DFA, IV, 244.
18. “It is the part of prudence”: Ibid., 245.
19. “Always keep in mind”: Shepherd, Adams Chronicles, 92.
20. “The delicacies”: Works, VII, 138.
21. Although I am convinced: Ibid., 151.
22. “I have written more”: JA to Elbridge Gerry, May 23, 1780, AP, MHS.
23. “I am so taken up”: AFC, III, 320.
24. “Can’t you keep”: Ibid., 309.
25. “Ornaments of this kind”: Ibid., 316.
26. How long would it be: Ibid., 332.
27. “There is everything here”: Ibid., 333.
28. I must study politics: Ibid., 342.
29. You tell me, sir: PFA, IX, 256-57.
30. “delicate” Charles: Ibid., 305.
31. May Heaven permit you: Ibid., 367.
32. “Keep us weak”: DFA, II, 446.
33. official letter of June 21: Works, VII, 190-92.
34. “retrace its steps”: Ibid., 192.
35. “Foreigners, when they come”: Ibid., 198.
36. Whatever the size: Ibid., 220.
37. “the best policy”: Ibid., 226.
38. “determined to omit”: Ibid., 241-42.
39. But Vergennes had had enough: Ibid., 243.
40. “The King expects”: Smyth, ed., Writings of Benjamin Franklin, VIII, 117.
41. August 9, 1780: Lopez, ed., PBF, XXIII, 160-66.
42. “a virgin state”: Ibid., 511.
43. “The wheat”: DFA, II, 442.
44. “We passed by Mons”: D. G. Allen, ed., DFQA, I, 37.
45. “a certain king”: Nordholt, Dutch Republic and American Independence, 107.
46. “The whole is an astonishing”: Francis Dana Journal, MHS.
47. liberal atmosphere: Boxer, Dutch Seaborne Empire, xxvi.
48. “Wherever the eye ranges”: Owen, Travels into Different Parts of Europe in the Years 1791-1792, I, 90-91.
49. “The verdure”: Nordholt, Dutch Republic and American Independence, 5.
50. “so laden with filth”: Radcliffe, Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, 106.
51. James Boswell of London: Pottle, ed., Boswell in Holland, 236.
52. One says America: Works, VII, 247.
53. “Madame La Veuve du Henry”: DFA, II, 451.
54. “Papa went out to dinner”: D. G. Allen, ed., DFQA, I, 53.
55. A “considerable” loan: Works, VII, 245.
56. “the greatest curiosity”: AFC, III, 413-14.
57. Adams notified John Thaxter: Ibid., 424.
58. enrolled in Amsterdam’s: Ibid., 424.
59. “If I could have my will”: Ryerson, ed., PFA, X, 165.
6 0. “A navy is our natural”: Ibid., 270.
61. “I think I see very clearly”: Wharton, ed., Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, IV, 97.
62. This country: Ibid., 98.
63. “people of the first character”: Works, VIII, 342.
64. “The burgomasters of Amsterdam”: Works, VIII, 329.
65. “littleness of soul”: AFC, IV, 35.
66. A woman who sang: Wharton, ed., Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, IV, 197.
67. “War is to a Dutchman”: Ibid., 209.
68. “obscure”: John Adams,Correspondence of the Late President Adams, Letter XLIII.
69. “the best house”: JA to Messrs. Sigourney, Ingraham & Bromfield, April 9, 1781, AP, #102 MHS.
70. In lengthy correspondence: JA to Messrs. Sigourney, Ingraham & Bromfield, April 11 and 13, 1781, AP, #102 MHS.
71. “a thousand unfortunate incidents”: Gianta, ed., The Emerging Nation, I, 152.
72. “America . . . has been too long”: Works, VIII, 393.
73. “Mr. Adams could not refrain”: Watson, Tour in Holland, 104.
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sp; 74. On April 19, 1781: Works, vii, 396-404.
75. I never shall forget: Benjamin Waterhouse to Levi Woodbury, February 20, 1835, Levi Woodbury Papers, DLG, vol. XVI, MHS.
76. “What!” said the Duke: John Adams, Correspondence of the Late President Adams, Letter LI.
77. On Friday, May 4, 1781: Works, VII, 413.
78. “desires her tenderest”: AFC, IV, 3.
79. “Handkerchiefs will turn”: Ibid., III, 321.
80. “a country so damp”: Ibid., 14.
81. “I am wholly unconscious”: Ibid., 13.
82. On Christmas Day, 1780: Ibid., 50-52.
83. Keizersgracht: Ibid., 108.
84 . “Oh! Oh!”: Ibid., 116.
85. “with a constancy”: Ibid., 121.
86. “You are now at a university”: Ibid., 38.
87. “It is not simple velocity”: Ibid., 55.
88. “Terence is remarkable”: Ibid., 80.
89. “I absolutely”: Ibid., 144.
90. Read somewhat in the English poets: Ibid., 114.
91. “You will ever remember”: Ibid., 117.
92. “without [the] knowledge”: Richard Morris, Peacemakers, 215.
93. “I think it must convince”. LOD, XVII, 325.
94. “You will send me”: AFC, IV, 165.
95. “I consented [to the departure]”: John Adams, Correspondence of the Late President Adams, Letter LXIII.
96. “long journey”: AFC, IV, 170.
97. “fit for the Hôtel”: JA to Messrs. Sigourney, Ingraham & Bromfield, April 13,1781, AP, #102 MHS.
98. “Congress may have done”: Works, VII, 460.
99. Adams fell ill: AFC, IV, 224.
100. “all powerful [Peruvian] bark”: JA to Thomas McKean, October 15, 1781, AP, #104 MHS.
101. “wondrous virtue”: JA to M. Dumas, October 15, 1781, AP, #102 MHS.
102. This is always: Huxham, Essay on Fevers, 62-63.
103. typhus: editorial note, Greg L. Lint, AP, MHS.
104. “unwholesome damps”: AFC, IV, 225, n. 3.
105. his “fever”: JA to Edmund Jenings, April 28,1782, AP, #356, MHS.
106. on October 4: Works. VII, 465-66.
107. In reply, Franklin: Smyth, ed., Writings of Benjamin Franklin, VIII, 317.
108. In mid-October: Works, VII, 471-75.
109. “Don’t distress yourself”: AFC, IV, 249-51.
110. “Ah my dear John”: Ibid., 256.
111. “God willing”: Works, IX, 513.
112. “Oh, God!”: Richard Morris, Peacemakers, 251.
113. “the glorious news”: Works, VII, 481.
114 . “Cornwallization”: Ibid., 498.
115. “categorical answer”: Ibid., 515.
116. “The charge of vanity”: Ibid., 528.
117. “‘What dust we raise’”: Ibid., 527.
118. “Friesland is said to be”: Ibid., 539.
119. “Your humble servant”: AFC, IV, 300.
120. On Monday, April 22: Works, VII, 571.
121. “made an entertainment”: Ibid., 573-74.
122. “liveliest transports”: Nordholt, Dutch Republic and American Independence, 218.
123. “The resolution”: JA to Edmund Jenings, April 28,1782, AP, #356 MHS.
124. “If this had been”: AFC, IV, 338-39.
125. “I have rendered”: Ibid., 370.
126. “I must be an independent man”: Ibid., 337.
127. a letter to Edmund Jenings: JA to Edmund Jenings, September 27,1782, AP, #358, MHS.
128. If they avoid: Robert Livingston to JA, March 5, 1782, AP, #356, MHS.
129. Heer Adams: Pennsylvania Journal, Sept. 14, 1782.
130. a treaty of commerce: AFC, V, 15.
131. “say nothing of this”: Works, VII, 641.
132. “troublesome business”: AFC, V, 15.
133. he started for Paris: DFA, III, 29, 30.
134. Rubens altarpiece at Antwerp: Ibid., 31.
135. While we were viewing: Ibid., 35-36.
136. “[Mr. Adams] is much pleased”: Klingelhofer, “Matthew Ridley’s Diary,”
137. William and Mary Quarterly, XX, Jan. 1963.
138. I cannot express: Works, VII, 652-54.
139. After what Franklin: Klingelhofer, “Matthew Ridley’s Diary,” William and Mary Quarterly, XX, Jan., 1963.
140. “with much persuasion”: Ibid.
141. His base jealousy: JA to Edmund Jenings, July 20, 1782, AP, #107, MHS.
142. to “speak or hear”: AFC, V, 28.
143. to praise Jay: DFA, III, 38.
144. “In the air”: Ibid., 45.
145. “took it amiss”: Ibid., 47.
146. “hear an expostulation?”: Ibid., 47, n. 2.
147. “The Comte”: Ibid., 49.
148. “French gentlemen”: Ibid., 50.
149. included with a report: Ibid., 50, n. 2.
150. “What powers?”: Ibid., 61.
151. France does not feel obliged: Morris, The Peacemakers, 330.
152. “vast deal”: Ibid., 75.
153. “carrying away any Negroes”: Ibid., 82.
154. Gentlemen, is there: Ibid., 79.
155. “a pretty good meal”: Klingelhofer, “Matthew Ridley’s Diary,” William and Mary Quarterly, XX, Jan., 1963, 132.
156. performed “nobly”: DFA, III, 81.
157. “I am at a loss”: Smyth, ed., Writings of Benjamin Franklin, VIII, 641.
158. “English buy peace”: Morris, The Peacemakers, 383.
159. “Sharp fiery humors”: AFC, V, 170.
160. “My friend, you and I”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 349.
161. “You may depend”: AFC, V, 60.
6. ABIGAIL IN PARIS
1. terrified of the sea: AFC, V, 271.
2. “I know not”: Ibid., 277.
3. Reverend William Smith, had died: Ibid., 253.
4. “I cannot consent”: Ibid, 271.
5. “fine majestic girl”: Ibid., 57.
6. She has stateliness: Ibid., 7.
7. “If he is steady”: Ibid., 62.
8. “dissipation”: EDJA, 23 n. 50.
9. Daughter!: JA to AA, April 8,1783, Shaw Family Papers, LOC.
10. “courting mothers”: AFC, V, 74-75.
11. “attachment”: Ibid., 260.
12. I recollect the untitled: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, I, 169.
13. “parade and nonsense”: AFC, V, 259.
14. Her health was poor: Ibid., 270.
15. even by balloon: Ibid., 236.
16. “The lady comes”: Ibid., 256.
17. You invite me: Ibid., 303.
18. “I can scarcely think it”: Ibid., 302.
19. “Sir, you and the”: Ibid., 317.
20. by two servants: Ibid., 305, n. 4.
21. named Phoebe: Ibid., 303.
22. Phoebe is to be allowed: Ibid., 345.
23. “But let no”: Ibid., 331.
24. “not of unmeaning complimenters”: DJA, III, 154.
25. “I thanked him for his politeness”: AFC, V, 398.
26. the Active: DJA, III, 155.
27. “We crawled”: AFC, V, 359.
28. “We can only live”: Ibid., 361.
29. “as some gentlemen sat”: Ibid.
30. rheumatism: Ibid., 365.
31. “lazy, dirty”: Ibid., 364.
32. “make a bustle”: Ibid., 359.
33. she mastered the names: Ibid., 364.
34. “Great and marvelous”: Ibid.
35. reading on medicine: DJA, III, 158.
36. “haughty Scotchman”: AFC, V, 366.
37. One of the crew: DJA, III, 162.
38. “No matter where”: Ibid., 162.
39. “Man was made”: AFC, V, 365.
40. We set off from the vessel: Ibid., 368.
41. seventy-two miles: Ibid., 369.
42.Black Heath: Ibid., 370.
43. “as quiet as at any place
”: Ibid., 373.
44. “Heaven give us”: Ibid., 399.
45. portrait done by Copley: DJA, III, 31.
46. “walk a vast deal”: Ibid., 40.
47. “Young Mr. Adams”: Ibid., 43.
48. “You can imagine”: AFC, VI, 32.
49. Everything around appeared: Butterfield et al., ed., Book of Abigail and John, 397-98.
50. “You know my dear sister”: AFC, VI, 17.
51.“I was chilled to the heart”: DJA, III, 153.
52.“The house, the garden”: Ibid., 171.
53.“I make a little America”: Shaw, Character of John Adams, 195.
54.“Why, my dear”: AFC, V, 434.
55.“delightful”: Ibid., 433.
56.“One [servant]”: Ibid., 441.
57.“business is to purchase”: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, II, 49.
58.“a sprat in a whale’s belly”: JA to Cotton Tufts, Dec. 15, 1784, AP, #363, MHS.
59.“We spend no evenings”: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, II, 50.
60.“The inquiry is not whether”: AFC, VI, 136.
61.“dancing here and there”: Ibid., V, 440.
62. “To be out of fashion”: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, II, 69.
63.“smelt it”: Ibid., 54.
64. “What idea, my dear madame”: AFC, V, 447.
65. a Paris orphanage: Ibid., VI, 57.
66. John Paul Jones: Ibid., 5.
67. “Less money”: Ibid, 6.
68. She entered the room: Ibid., V, 436-37.
69. “I have been here”: Ibid., 446.
70. Fancy, my dear Betsy: Ibid., 39.
71. The dresses: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, II, 82.
72. “And oh!”: Ibid., 83.
73.They are easy: Ibid., 76.
74. Adrienne François de Noailles: AFC, VI, 15-16.
75. “You would have supposed”: Ibid., 16.
76.“I have often complained”: Smith, Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, 34.
77. “I have got their profiles”: Ibid., 30.
78.“Aya, I had rather”: Ibid., V, 468.
79. “I shall always”: Ibid., VI, 102.
80. “May Heaven reward him”: 310 Ibid., V, 471.
81. “I wish I could give you”: Ibid., V, 465.
82.“Dined at Mr. Jefferson’s”: D. G. Allen, ed. DJQA, I, 216.
83.“eight or ten thousand”: A. A. Smith, Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, II, 18.
84. “My new partner”: JA to Arthur Lee, Jan. 31,1785, AP, #364, MHS.
85. “He professes”: C. F. Adams, Letters of Mrs. Adams, II, 68.
86. “perfect freedom and unreserve”: AFC, VI, 169.
87. “one of the choice ones”: Ibid., 119.
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