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  52. “It has been received”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 220.

  53. “brightest, best and most peaceful” Ibid., 218.

  54. “I have heard of” Ibid., 215.

  54. “Wise and judicious”: Ibid., 229.

  55. “I congratulate you”: JA to Cotton Tufts, Jan. 1, 1800, AP, MHS.

  56. “Electioneering”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 217.

  57. “in his private life”: Walt Brown, John Adams and the American Press, 126.

  58. “Such papers cannot”: Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, 470.

  59. “hate each other”: Aurora, March 6, 1800.

  60. “I know it”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, 555.

  61. “You cannot, sir” : Ibid., 564.

  62. “copies of extracts”: Ibid., XXIV, 487.

  63. “The issue of this investigation”: Works, I, 572.

  64. “as luxuriant”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 250.

  65. nearly eighty years: Waring, Report of the Social Statistics of Cities, 27.

  66. “I like the seat”: JA to AA, June 13, 1800, AP, MHS.

  67. “Oh! That I could”: JA to AA, June 13, 1800, AP, MHS.

  68. “most detestable”: Brodie, Thomas Jefferson, 325.

  69. “I do declare”: JA to William Tudor, Dec. 13, 1800, AP, #399, MHS.

  70. “menaces”: Aurora, March 29, 1800.

  71. “My countrymen!”: Ibid.

  72. “without being attended”: AA to Thomas Adams, Aug. 15, 1800, AP, MHS.

  73. Bred in the old school: Washington Federalist, Oct. 7, 1800.

  74. “I cannot account”: Cullen, ed., Papers of John Marshall, IV, 240.

  75. ... the government: Ibid., 256.

  76. “The whole man”: AA to JA, Sept. 1, 1800, AP, MHS.

  77. “But all is lost”: AA to William Smith, Sept. 6, 1800, AP, MHS.

  78. “I am glad you are”: Thomas Adams to AA, Oct. 19, 1800, AP, MHS.

  79. A Letter from Alexander Hamilton: See Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, XXV, 169–234.

  80. “But woods are all”: AA to Abigail Adams Smith, Nov. 21, 1800, AP, MHS.

  81. “very dirtiest hole”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 257.

  82. “Two of our hardy”: AA to Cotton Tufts, Nov. 28, 1800, AP, MHS.

  83. “The lower class of whites”: Ibid.

  84. His constitution: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 261.

  85. “[I] would to God”: AA to Sarah Smith Adams, Dec. 8, 1800, AP, MHS.

  86. “My little bark”: JA to Thomas Adams, Dec. 17, 1800, AP, MHS.

  87. “For myself and family”: AA to Thomas Adams, Dec. 13, 1800, AP, MHS.

  88. “I lose my sleep”: AA to Cotton Tufts, Jan. 15, 1800, AP, MHS.

  89. “How mighty”: Works, IX, 577.

  90. “carried his eggs”: JA to William Tudor, Dec. 13, 1800, #399, MHS.

  91. undated account: Notes of Conversation Between AA and Thomas Jefferson, January, 1801. Note handwritten comment: “This conversation must have taken place in last days of January,1801 . CSA,” AP, #400, MHS.

  92. “made me a visit”: AA to Thomas Adams, Feb. 3, 1801, AP, MHS.

  93. “heavy heart”: AA to JQA, Jan. 29, 1801, AP, MHS.

  94. “The President”: AA to JQA, Jan. 29, 1801, AP, MHS.

  95. “farmer John of Stoneyfield”: JA to William Tudor, Jan, 20, 1801, AP, #400, MHS.

  96. “The fire for some time”: Washington Federalist, Jan. 21, 1801.

  97. “Who shall I nominate now?”: J. E. Smith, John Marshall, 14.

  98. “The crisis is momentous”: Washington Federalist, Feb. 12, 1801.

  99. “When the election”: Ford, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson, IX, 297.

  100. “The Revolution of 1776”: Aurora, Feb. 20, 1801.

  101. “Sensible, moderate men”: Massachusetts Spy, March 18, 1801.

  102. “Duke of Braintree”: Aurora, March 11, 1801.

  103. The new navy: Hagan, This People’s Navy, 39, 43.

  104. “I desire no other”: R.A. brown, Presidency of John Adams, 174.

  11. REJOICE EVER MORE

  1. “The only question”: JA to Cotton Tufts, Dec. 26, 1801, AP, MHS.

  2. “a life of journeys”: JA to Colonel Joseph Ward, Feb. 4, 1801, AP, #120, MHS.

  3. “The day is far spent”: MHS, Warren-Adams Letters, II, 344.

  4. “No more elective office”: AA to JA, Jan. 25, 1801, AP, MHS.

  5. “so old fashioned”: Works, IX, 582.

  6. Massachusetts legislature: Works, I, 601.

  7. been a shoemaker: JA to Thomas Adams, Sept. 9, 1801, AP, MHS.

  8. “this cheerful mortal”: JA to Francis van der Kemp, Feb. 23, 1815, AP, MHS.

  9. “I have commenced”: AA to William Smith, May 3, 1801, AP, MHS.

  10. “from the window”: AA to Catherine Johnson, May 8, 1801, AP, MHS.

  11. “Your father”: AA to Thomas Adams, June 12, 1801, AP, MHS.

  12. “Men are weak”: JA to William Cranch, May 23, 1801, AP, MHS.

  13. “how much wall”: JA to Thomas Adams, June 29, 1801, AP, MHS.

  14. “Everything I read”: JA to Thomas Adams, July 11, 1801, AP, MHS.

  15. “very strong things”: Ibid.

  16. The only misfortune: Ibid.

  17. “I pray God”: AA to Thomas Adams, July 5, 1801, AP, MHS.

  18. “I am sure your brother”: AA to Thomas Adams, July 12, 1801, AP, MHS.

  19. “a profession he never loved”: AA to Thomas Adams, July 5, 1801, AP, MHS.

  20. “Her health”: JQA to JA, Sept. 4, 1801, AP, MHS.

  21. I hope you will consider: JA to JQA, Sept. 12, 1801, AP, MHS.

  22. “sort of fatherly look”: Thomas Adams to AA, Sept. 20, 1801. , AP, MHS.

  23. “He has no propensity”: Ibid.

  24. “very ill”: JQA to Louisa Catherine Adams, Sept. 23, 1801, AP, MHS.

  25. Quincy!: “Adventures of a Nobody,” AP, #269, MHS.

  26. “Her frame is so slender”: AA to Thomas Adams, Dec. 27, 1801, AP, MHS.

  27. “weight of worry”: Ibid.

  28. “I am your man”: Thomas Adams to JQA, Dec. 7, 1801, AP, MHS.

  29. Bird, Savage: AA to Thomas Adams, April 26, 1803, AP, MHS.

  30. selling his house: AA to Thomas Adams, May 8, 1803, AP, MHS.

  31. release from jail: Malone, Jefferson the President, 35.

  32. “cherished and warmed”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 271.

  33. Sally Hemings: See Malone, Jefferson the President, 206–23; Lewis and Onuf, eds., Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson; Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.

  34. Meriwether Lewis: Malone, Jefferson the President, 210.

  35. Federalist press: See New York Evening Post, Sept. 2, 7, 10, 13, 1802; Boston Gazette, Sept. 16, 1802; Gazette of the United States, Sept. 22, 1802; Columbian Cen-tinel, Oct. 9, 1802.

  36. “decidedly good looking”: Dabney, The Jefferson Scandals, 23.

  37. “very handsome”: Ibid.

  38. Jefferson paternity of Hemings children: The results of a DNA study released in November 1998, together with other available evidence, indicate a high probability that Jefferson was the father of at least one of Sally Hemings’s children, Eas-ton Hemings, and was most likely the father of all her children. See Eugene A. Foster, et al., “Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child,” Nature, November 15, 1998; also, “Report on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,” Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, January 2000.

  39. “I believe nothing”: JA to Colonel Joseph Ward, Jan. 8, 1810, AP, #118, MHS.

  40. “I give him up”: Ibid.

  41. Callender and Sally: Ibid.

  42. “a little corner of my heart”: AA to Thomas Adams, May 23, 1802, AP, MHS.

  43. Mary Jefferson Eppes: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 268.
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  44. The friendship with which you honored: Ibid., 270.

  45. “And now, sir”: Ibid., 273.

  46. Until I read Callender’s: Ibid.

  47. “My charities”: Ibid., 274.

  48. John Quincy was suddenly replaced: Ibid., 277.

  49. “I conclude with sincere prayers”: Ibid., 280.

  50. “It is a delicate”: JA to Thomas Adams, April 2, 1803, AP, MHS.

  51. “blue devils”: Thomas Adams to JQA, Dec. 15, 1803, AP, MHS.

  52. “This is now in general”: JQA to JA, Jan. 31, 1804, AP, MHS.

  53. “arch enemy”: DJA, III, 434.

  54. “Hitherto my conduct”: JQA to AA, Dec. 22, 1803, AP, MHS.

  55. Patience and perseverance: JA to JQA, Nov. 9, 1804, AP, MHS.

  56. Is the present state: Old Family Letters, 62.

  57. You and your excellent: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, II, 890.

  58. “My friend!”: Old Family Letters, 185.

  59. [Samuel] Johnson: Ibid., 99.

  60. “To rummage trunks”: Ibid., 106.

  61. What must he say: Ibid.

  62. There have been very many times: Ibid.

  63. “There is something in my composition”: Ibid., 69.

  64. “Our obligations”: Ibid., 182.

  65. “The internal intrigues”: Ibid.

  66. I call for my leavers: Ibid., 64.

  67. “with very little animal food”: Ibid., 341.

  68. It is an idea: Ibid., 111.

  69. “an immense load”: Ibid., 137.

  70. “This phrase ‘rejoice’”: Ibid.

  71. “We stand well”: Ibid., 103.

  72. “No civilized society”: Ibid., 63.

  73. “If worthless men”: Ibid., 108.

  74. “a jewel of a man”: Ibid., 294.

  75. “one of the best men”: Ibid., 276.

  76. “I am not subject”: Ibid., 235.

  77. “I think aloud”: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush. , II, 903.

  78. “I live like a stranger”: Ibid., 891.

  79. Mr. Madison and his lady: Ibid., 903.

  80. “a superabundance”: Old Family Letters, 118.

  81. “intriguer”: Ibid., 163.

  82. “Jefferson has succeeded”: Ibid.

  83. “Mr. Adams’s passions”: Warren, History, II, 675.

  84. “I wish them not”: Old Family Letters, 226.

  85. Josiah Quincy: Quincy, Figures of the Past, 61–62.

  86. “If ever a nation”: Old Family Letters, 175.

  87. “The period is not yet arrived”: AA to JQA, Feb. 1809, AP, #407, MHS.

  88. “As to my son”: Old Family Letters, 225.

  89. tore him to pieces: Ibid., 237.

  90. “My days glide smoothly away”: JA to JQA, Jan. 15, 1811, AP, #411, MHS.

  91. “I am well”: Old Family Letters, 285.

  92. “It would divert”: Ibid., 285.

  93. “the most afflictive”: Ibid., 288.

  94. confined her under: Ibid., 289.

  95. dark to view a comet: AA to JQA, Sept. 24, 1811, AP, #412, MHS.

  96. “Neither the morals”: AA to JQA, Dec. 8, 1811, AP, #412, MHS.

  97. “communicate it gradually”: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, II, 1104.

  98. “the knife”: Ibid.

  99. “From her account”: Ibid.

  100. brothers named Coles: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 284.

  101. “I always loved Jefferson”: Ibid.

  102. “I only needed this knowledge”: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, II, 1110.

  103. “And now, my dear friend”: Ibid.

  104. “A letter from you calls up”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 291.

  105. Laboring always at the same oar: Ibid., 291.

  106. “I have given up newspapers”: Ibid.

  107. “What an exchange”: Ibid., 294.

  108. “a hideous tempest”: Ibid.

  109. “I walk every fair day”: Ibid., 199.

  110. “Your dream is out”: Old Family Letters, 453.

  111. I rejoice in the correspondence: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush , II, 1127.

  112. “Who shall write”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 451.

  113. “Nobody, except perhaps”: Ibid., 452.

  114. “not writing psalms”: John Pierce Memoirs, MHS.

  115. “Without this our Union”: Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 311.

  116. “I sincerely congratulate”: Ibid., 324.

  117. “Never mind”: Ibid., 357.

  118. “Montezillo”: JA to Francis Van der Kemp, Sept. 23, 1814, AP, #122, MHS.

  119. “Whether you or I”: Ibid., 301.

  120. “Checks and balances”: Ibid., 334.

  121. “lashing and speering”: Ibid., 358.

  122. “fast asleep”: Ibid., 347.

  123. “You and I have passed”: Ibid., 358.

  124. “You and I ought”: Ibid.

  125. “The summum bonum”: Ibid., 335.

  126. My mind: Ibid., 337.

  127. “Your letter touches”: JA to John Adams (grandson), Feb. 2, 1812, AP, #413, MHS.

  128. “War necessarily”:Old Family Letters, 224.

  129. “I have been called”: JA to JQA, April 7, 1812, AP, #413, MHS.

  130. The subjects of them: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, 1164.

  131. “But time I hope”: Ibid.

  132. “You apprehend ‘attacks’”: Old Family Letters, 317.

  133. Examining the animal: Ibid., 322.

  134. Tread gently: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, II, 1171.

  135. “away like the morning cloud”: Old Family Letters, 332.

  136. “withered, faded”: Ibid., 333.

  137. “inscrutable and incomprehensible”: JA to JQA, March 11, 1813, AP, #415, MHS.

  138. They fill the air: JA to JQA, March 13, 1813, AP, #415, MHS.

  139. “the invader himself”: JQA to JA, Aug. 10, 1813, AP, #416, MHS.

  140. “I mourned over the fallen”: Ibid.

  141. “Another of our friends”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 323.

  142. “I know of no character”: Ibid., 328.

  143. I damn nobody: JA to Francis Van der Kemp, May 28, 1813, AP, #95, MHS.

  144. Samuel Tucker: JA to Matthew Carey, June 1, 1813, AP, #95, MHS.

  145. “rejoice ever more”: Old Family Letters, 137.

  146. “Rejoice always”: JA to JQA, June 18, 1813, AP, #95, MHS.

  147. “My dear, my only daughter”: JA to Francis Van der Kemp, Aug. 9, 1813, AP, #95, MHS.

  148. “She told her physician”: AA to JQA, Aug. 30, 1813, AP, MHS.

  149. “The loss is irreparable”: AA to JQA, Sept. 13, 1813, AP, #416, MHS.

  150. “Syllabus”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 369.

  151. “The love of God”: Ibid., 374.

  12. JOURNEY’S END

  1. “I assure you”: JA to JQA, March 18, 1815, AP, #422, MHS.

  2. “We must learn to know”: JA to Richard Rush, May 30, 1814, AP, #122, MHS.

  3. “very anxious”: AA to JQA, May 30, AP, 1815, AP, #423, MHS.

  4. “I seem to be rambling”: JA to JQA, May 14, 1815, AP, #423, MHS.

  5. “be no better”: JA to George Adams and John Adams, Jr., May 3, 1815, AP, MHS.

  6. “and your lady, too”: Ibid.

  7. “dear boys”: AA to JQA, April 11, 1816, AP, #423, MHS.

  8. “Death is sweeping”: JA to JQA, June 10, 1816, AP, #432, MHS.

  9. “Winter in this country”: JA to JQA, Feb. 22, 1816, AP, #429, MHS.

  10. Abigail prepared her will: Will of Abigail Adams, Jan. 18, 1816, AP, #429, MHS.

  11. Colonel Smith: AA to JQA, June 10, 1816, AP, #432, MHS.

  12. “here a pivot”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 43.

  13. “I steer my bark”: Ibid., 467.


  14. “But why am I dosing”: Ibid., 434.

  15. $23,950 was agreed to: Malone, The Sage of Monticello, 176.

  16. “I envy you”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 440.

  17. He could “not live without books”: Ibid., 443.

  18. “overwhelm me with books”: Ibid., 515.

  19. “What would I give”: Ibid., 429.

  20. “There is no doubt”: Haraszti, John Adams and the Prophets of Progress, 94.

  21. “The clock would be simple”: Ibid., 214.

  22. “Fool! Fool!”: Ibid., 263.

  23. “Your father’s zeal”: AA to JQA, March 22, 1816, AP, #430, MHS.

  24. “The voice of the nation”: AA to JQA, March 12, 1817, AP, #436, MHS.

  25. “Yesterday was one of the most uniformly”: JA to JQA, Aug. 10, 1817, AP, #438, MHS.

  26. “Oh, Grandmother”: AA to Harriet Welsh, Aug. 18, 1817, AP, #438, MHS.

  27. “rather in awe”: Eliza Susan Quincy Journal, MHS.

  28. “I never saw your father”: Benjamin Waterhouse to JQA, Jan. 12, 1818, AP, #442, MHS.

  29. “very cold and the snow falling”: AA to Louisa Catherine Adams, Jan. 24, 1818, AP, #442, MHS.

  30. “looking up newly”: AA to Louisa Catherine Adams, May 20, 1818, AP, #443, MHS.

  31. “The dear partner”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 529.

  32. “She has recovered”: Benjamin Waterhouse to JQA, Oct. 21, 1818, AP, #444, MHS.

  33. “Your mother was pronounced”: Note of Harriet Welsh, Oct. 23, 1818, AP, #444, MHS.

  34. “He came down”: Harriet Welsh to Louisa C. A. DeWint, ca. Nov. 1818, AP, #445, MHS.

  35. “I cannot bear”: Ibid.

  36. “seemingly conscious”: Thomas Adams to JQA, Nov. 1, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.

  37. “with great composure”: Ibid.

  38. “the tenderest and most affectionate”: JQA to JA, Nov. 2, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.

  39. “My ever dear”: JA to JQA, Nov. 10, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.

  40. “The tidings of her illness”: Funeral Sermon for AA, Nov. 1, 1817, AP, #445, MHS.

  41. Possessing at every period of life: Whitney, Sermon, 16.

  42. “God bless you”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 529.

  43. “While you live”: Ibid., 530.

  44. to view Trumbull’s painting: JA to JQA, Dec. 7, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.

  45. “Colonel Trumbull came”: Eliza Susan Quincy Journal, Dec. 5, 1818, MHS.

  46. “Truth, nature”: JA to John Trumbull, March 13, 1817, AP, #123, MHS.