47. “When I nominated”: Elza Susan Quincy, Dec. 5, 1818, MHS.
48. “caught the pip”: JA to JQA, Dec. 7, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.
49. “It was not merely”: JQA to JA, Dec. 14, 1818, AP, #445, MHS.
50. “All is now still”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 531.
51. “You, my dear sir”: Louisa Catherine Adams to JA, April 16, 1819, AP, #447, MHS.
52. “I have the most”: JA to Ward Nicholas Boylston, Sept. 2, 1820, AP, #124, MHS.
53. “We go on”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, Jan. 1, 1820, AP, #449, MHS.
54. “The Psalms of David”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 394.
55. A rain had fallen: JA to Mr. DeWint, March 3, 1820, AP, #124, MHS.
56. “The town of Quincy”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, Oct. 21, 1820, AP, #450, MHS.
57. “You have not extended”: JA to Mordecai Noah, July 31, 1818, AP, #123, MHS.
58. “health and spirits”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 569.
59. “I boggled”: Ibid., 571.
60. “Visited the President”: Quincy, Figures of the Past, 69.
61. I do not believe: Ibid., 80.
62. “I know it is high treason”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 551.
63. “at last the whites”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, Jan. 13, 1820, AP, #449, MHS.
64. black cloud: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 571.
65. “armies of Negroes”: Ibid.
66. I have been so terrified: Ibid.
67. “This enterprise”: Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, 999.
68. “become a Hercules”: Ibid.
69. “all whites south of the Potomac”: Malone, Sage of Monticello, 340.
70. military academy: Ibid., 573-74.
71. “noble employment”: Ibid., 607.
72. “one of the most unpleasant”: Donald and Donald, eds., Diary of Charles Francis Adams, I, 64..
73. “They had eyes”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, June 3, 1821, AP, #452, MHS.
74. “President Adams seemed”: Eliza Susan Quincy Journal, MHS.
75. “No man has more cause”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, June 3, 1821, AP, #452, MHS.
76. “In the evening”: Quincy, Figures of the Past, 73.
77. “You have a fine capacity”: JA to Charles Francis Adams, Dec. 19, 1825, AP, #473, MHS.
78. “did no more than all the rest”: JA to Louisa Catherine Adams, May 10, 1823, AP, #460, MHS.
79. “It would be strange indeed”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 601.
80. “not the Lafayette I knew”: Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy, 406-7.
81. His sight is so dim: Nevins, ed., Diary of John Quincy Adams, 329.
82. “I let them do what they please”: Cappon. ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 526.
83. “He was married”: George Washington Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams, Nov.20, 1824, AP, #466, MHS.
84. He ... was considerably: Quincy, Figures of the Past, 74.
85. “It must excite”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 609.
86. So deeply are the principles: Ibid.
87. “Every line from you”: Ibid.
88. “But physicians do not”: Benjamin Waterhouse to JQA, July 4, 1825, AP, #471, MHS.
89. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Adamses at Home, 29-32.
90. Anne Royall: Ibid., 32-34.
91. “He did not tear my face”: JA to Charles Francis Adams, Dec. 3, 1825, AP, #473, MHS.
92. “She entertained me”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 611.
93. “In this I could not”: Ibid.
94. “To the eyes of a physician”: Benjamin Waterhouse to JQA, May 12, 1826, AP, #475, MHS.
95. Like other young people: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 614.
96. “Theirs are the halcyon”: Ibid.
97. May it be to the world: Lipscomb, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson. XVI, 181–82.
98. “The old man fails fast”: “The Diary of George Whitney,” #475, MHS.
99. “I will give you”: Ibid.
100. “When I parted from him”: John Marston to JQA, July 8, 1826, AP, #476, MHS.
101. “the old gentleman”: “The Diary of George Whitney,” AP, #475, MHS.
102. “This is the Fourth”: Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, 428.
103. “The artillery of Heaven”: John Marston to JQA, July 8, 1826, AP, #476, MHS.
104. “Thomas Jefferson survives”: Susan Boylston Adams Clark to Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson, July 9,1826 , AP, A. B. Johnson Papers, MHS.
105. “Help me, child!”: Ibid.
106. “bursting forth”: John Marston to JQA, July 8, 1826, AP, #476, MHS.
107. 4,000 people: Josiah Quincy to JQA, July 8, 1826, AP, #476, MHS.
108. held at public expense: Ibid.
109. “conducted in a more solemn”: Ibid.
110. “visible and palpable”: Nevins, ed., Diary of John Quincy Adams, 360.
111. “expanded greatness”:Selection of Eulogies, 156.
112. Webster speech: Ibid.
113. “Griefs upon griefs!”: JA to Francis Van der Kemp, Aug. 14, 1816, AP, #122, MHS.
Bibliography
* * *
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Abigail Adams Papers, American Antiquarian Society
Abigail Adams Papers, Carl Roach Library, Cornell University
Abigail Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
John Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
John Quincy Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Ellen Randolph Coolidge Papers, University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Special Collections
Cranch Family Papers, Library of Congress
William Cushing Collection, Massachusetts Historical Society
Francis Dana Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Papers of Elbridge Gerry, Library of Congress
Lafayette Papers, Library of Congress
Robert Treat Paine Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Timothy Pickering Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Shaw Family Papers, Library of Congress
Margaret Bayard Smith Papers, Library of Congress
Ezra Stiles Papers, Yale University
Samuel Tucker Papers, Harvard University
John Winthrop Papers, Harvard University
Levi Woodbury Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
BOOKS
Adams, Charles Francis, ed., Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1876.
— . Letters of Mrs. Adams. Vols. I-II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1840.
— . The Works of John Adams. Vols. I-X. Boston: Little, Brown, 1856.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. “Quincy,” 1884.
Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Library of America, 1986.
Adams, James Truslow. The Adams Family. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930.
— . New England in the Republic, 1776-1850. Boston: Little, Brown, 1926.
— . Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923.
Adams, John. Correspondence of the Late President Adams, Originally Published in the Boston Patriot in a Series of Letters. Boston: Everett & Munroe, 1809.
Adams, William Howard. The Eye of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976.
— . Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1976.
— . Jefferson’s Monticello. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.
— . The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
The Adamses at Home: Accounts by Visitors to the Old House in Quincy, 1788-1886. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1970.
Akers, Ch
arles W. Abigail Adams: An American Woman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
— . The Divine Politician: Samuel Cooper and the American Revolution in Boston. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1982.
Alberts, Robert C. Benjamin West: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Albion, Robert Greenlaugh, and Jennie Barnes Pope. Sea Lanes in Wartime: The American Experience, 1775-1942. New York: Norton, 1942.
Alden, John R. A History of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Allen, David Grayson, ed. The Diary of John Quincy Adams. Vols. I-II. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981.
Allen, Gardner W. Our Naval War with France. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1967.
— . Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965.
Allison, John Murray. Adams and Jefferson: The Story of a Friendship. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.
Alsop, Susan Mary. Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982.
Ammon, Harry. The Genet Mission. New York: Norton, 1973.
— . James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Andrist, Ralph K., ed. George Washington: A Biography in His Own Words. The Founding Fathers. New York: Newsweek/Harper & Row, 1972.
Austin, James T. The Life of Elbridge Gerry. Vols. I-II. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
Bailyn, Bernard. Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: Knopf, 1990.
— . The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
— . The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974.
— . The People of British North America. New York: Vintage, 1986.
Bakeless, John, and Katherine Bakeless. Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.
Ballagh, James Curtin, ed. The Letters of Richard Henry Lee. Vols. I-II. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.
Bate, W. J. ed., Samuel Johnson: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968.
Bear, James A., Jr. Jefferson at Monticello. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985.
Bear, James A., Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 2nd Series. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Becker, Carl L. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Vintage, 1970.
Bedini, Silvio A. Declaration of Independence Desk. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.
— . Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1990.
Bemis, Samuel Flagg. John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. New York: Knopf, 1949.
Berkin, Carol. Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
Bernard, J. F. Talleyrand: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1973.
Bernhard, Winfred E. A. Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman, 1758-1808. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
Bernier, Olivier. Lafayette: Hero of Two Worlds. New York: Dutton, 1983.
Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book. Princeton, N.J.: American Philosophical Society/Princeton University Press, 1953.
— . Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766-1824. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944.
Betts, Edwin M., and James Adam Bear, Jr., eds. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
Billias, George Athan. Elbridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican Statesman.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
— . General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners. New York: Holt, 1960.
Blake, John B. Public Health in the Town of Boston, 1630-1822. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959.
Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Random House, 1993.
— . The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. John Adams and the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950.
— . Miracle at Philadelphia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.
Boxer, C. R. The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800. London: Penguin, 1965.
Boyd, Julian, ed. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Vols. I-XX. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1950.
Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Brissot de Warville, J. P. New Travels in the United States of America, 1788. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
Brodie, Fawn M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974.
Brogan, D. W., ed. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Brooke, John. King George III. London: Constable, 1972.
Brookhiser, Richard. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Free Press, 1999.
— . Founding Father. New York: Free Press, 1996.
Brown, Everett Somerville. William Plumer’s Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807. London: Macmillan, 1923.
Brown, Ralph Adams. The Presidency of John Adams. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975.
Brown, Richard D. Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
— . Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and The Towns, 1772-1774. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970.
— . The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Brown, Walt. John Adams and the American Press. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1995.
Brugger, Robert J., ed. The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series. Vol. I. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: Penguin, 1986.
Burstein, Andrew. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Burt, Struthers. Philadelphia Holy Experiment. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1945.
Bush, Alfred L. The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1987.
Butterfield, L. H., ed. Adams Family Correspondence. Vols. I-VI. The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.
— , ed. Diary and Autobiography of John Adams. Vols. I-IV. The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961.
— , ed. Diary of Charles Francis Adams. The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964.
— . The Earliest Diary of John Adams. The Adams Papers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966.
— . Butterfield in Holland. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961.
— . Letters of Benjamin Rush. Vols. I-II. Princeton, N.J.: American Philosophical Society, 1951.
Butterfield, L. H., Marc Friedlaender and Mary Jo Kline, eds. The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Campbell, James. Recovering Franklin. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.
Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.
Cary, John. Joseph Warren: Physician, Politician, Patriot. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston. Boston, Mass.: Boston Trustees, 1917.
Catanzariti, John, ed. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Vols. XXIV-XXVII. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990-97.
Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote. New York: Modern Library, 1930.
Chambers, S. Allen, Jr. Poplar Forest and Thomas Jefferson. Poplar Forest, Va.: Corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, 1993.
Chambers, William Nisbet. Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776-1809. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Chastellux, Marquis de. Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. Vols. I and II. Howard C. Rice, Jr., ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.
Chinard, Gilbert. Honest John Adams. Boston: Little, Brown, 1933.
Chitwood, Oliver Perry. Richard Henry Lee: Statesman of the Revolution. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library, 1967.
Christman, Margaret C. S. The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Cicero. On the Good Life. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1984.
Clarfield, Gerald H. Timothy Pickering and American Diplomacy, 1795-1800. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1969.
— . Timothy Pickering and the American Republic. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.
Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers. New York: Norton, 1995.
Collier, Christopher. Connecticut in the Continental Congress. Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1973.
Commager, Henry Steele. The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
Commager, Henry Steele, and Richard B. Morris. The Spirit of Seventy-Six. Vols. I-II. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.
Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. February 1996.
Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Cooke, Jacob Ernest. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Scribner, 1982.
Cooper, Duff. Talleyrand. Stockholm: Forlag, 1946.
Corner, George W., ed. The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1948.
David McCullough Library E-book Box Set Page 233