1 The first time: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:37, 19, 21. More than a month: For the gloves, see Nancy Johnson to John Trumbull, undated, John Trumbull Papers (MS 506), Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. There were frequent: Regarding the possibility that Joshua took advantage of his position, it is also possible that Jefferson paid for Joshua’s “political intelligence” out of a secret slush fund. (Margery M. Heffron, Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams, ed. David L. Michelmore [New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014], 32–33.) Louisa barely noticed: JQA to LCA, June 2, 1796, AFP; DJQA, December 26, 1795. She was almost: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:4; Heffron, Louisa Catherine, 15–16; Joan Challinor, “Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams: The Price of Ambition,” Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 1982, 43–44. She remembered her: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:4; Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (New York: Random House, 2012), 181. The school was only: LCA to Abigail Brooks Adams, March 2, 1834, AFP; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:4. the Johnsons returned: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:7. There was a famous bluestocking named Elizabeth Carter, but she is not the same as the Elizabeth Carter who ran the school. This Elizabeth Carter ran the girls’ boarding school until 1798. Dr. Tony Scott, vice chairman, Merton Historical Society, e-mail to author, November 21, 2012. Around 1787, Mrs. Carter’s school was relocated to Mitcham, where it occupied Baron House for ten years. See E. N. Montague, Lower Mitcham (Merton, UK: Merton Historical Society, 2003), 100–1. What happened next: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:6–9, 19; LCA to Abigail Brooks Adams, March 2, 1834, AFP. John Hewlett, Louisa wrote: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:19; George Clement Boase and Colin Matthew, “Hewlett, John (1762–1844), biblical scholar,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004), online ed.; Mary Wollstonecraft to Eliza Bishop, September 23, 1786, in The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Janet M. Todd (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 79; Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014). So Louisa began: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:11–12, 17; LCA to [illegible], April 9, 1849, Everett-Peabody Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Louisa was pulled: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:17; Kirsten Olsen, Daily Life in 18th-Century England (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1999), 34. For more on the pervasive suspicion of educated women, see Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977), 356–58. Louisa romanticized her childhood: “Adventures of a Nobody,” DLCA 1:64; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:57. She had to be careful: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:22, 35–37. Joshua planned “to get”: Joshua Johnson (hereafter JJ) to Thomas Johnson, February 17, 1786, Joshua Johnson Letterbook, Peter Force Collection, Library of Congress (hereafter LC). 2 Joshua would have: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:37, 17, 33. The American men: Ibid., 33, 29, 23, 36. One night at the Johnsons’: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:40–41. What did John Quincy: Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970), 45–46; for another portrait, see also ibid., 25; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:32. Louisa would always: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:17, 26, 7; “Adventures of a Nobody,” DLCA 1:76. So there was something: LCA to Abigail Brooks Adams, March 2, 1834, AFP; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:33, 37. At the end of January: DJQA, January 27, 1796; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:41. Louisa might have: DJQA, February 21, 1796. Despite how close: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:11. It was, in fact: Ibid., 11, 40. For Colonel Trumbull, see JQA to Louisa Catherine Johnson (hereafter LCJ), December 5, 1796, AFP. 3 He was alternately direct: Thomas Boylston Adams (hereafter TBA) to JQA, April 17, 1796, AFP. “At present without”: JQA to Abigail Adams (hereafter AA), February 20, 1796, AFP. In his diary, though: DJQA, February 1, 11, 1796. He was silent: DJQA, February 29, 1796; March 1, 1796. The Latin is by Horace. Alison Weisgall Robertson helped with the translation. Passions were pernicious: JQA to John Adams (hereafter JA), December 29, 1795, in Writings of John Quincy Adams, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (New York: Macmillan Company, 1913), 470. His career was drifting: Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (New York: W. W. Norton, 1949), 68–69. He could have: JQA to JA, December 29, 1795, in Writings of John Quincy Adams, 470; Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, 77–79. For nearly two years: Ibid. He was used: Heffron, Louisa Catherine, 47; AA to Martha Washington, June 20, 1794, AFP. There are dozens of biographies of JQA. Bemis’s John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy and John Quincy Adams and the Union (New York: Knopf, 1956) remain among the best. For the full scope of the life, see also Fred Kaplan, John Quincy Adams: American Visionary (New York: Harper, 2014); Paul Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); Marie B. Hecht, John Quincy Adams: A Personal History of an Independent Man (New York: Macmillan, 1972). It might have been easier: JQA to JA, December 29, 1795, in Writings of John Quincy Adams, 470. He went to galleries: DJQA, November 28, 1795. He carried his loneliness: JQA to AA, November 24, 1795, AFP; DJQA, November 12, 1795. He had been in love: JQA to AA, November 24, 7, 1795, AFP; DJQA, November 12, 1795. Marriage had been: Kaplan, John Quincy Adams, 131; JQA to TBA, November 2, 1795, JQA to AA, November 7, 1795, AFP. His parents’ goal: JQA to JA, December 29, 1795, in Writings of John Quincy Adams, 470; Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2001), 129; JQA to JA, December 29, 1795, in Writings of John Quincy Adams, 470; Edith B. Gelles, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), 138. John Quincy had tried: Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, ed. Charles Francis Adams (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 1:7–8. When he was only eleven: Heffron, Louisa Catherine, 49–50; JQA, “William Vans Murray,” in Letters of William Vans Murray to John Quincy Adams, 1797–1803, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, reprinted from the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1912, 347–48. “I see you sitting”: JQA to LCJ, June 2, 1796, AFP. “Wherefore must this”: DJQA, March 19, 1796. “Solitude is the only”: DJQA, February 20, 1796. A maelstrom of emotions: JQA to AA, July 25, 1796, AFP. What Louisa could see was: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:41–42; DJQA, May 10, 1796. John Quincy wrote about the situation: DJQA, February 29, March 2, 1796; Challinor, “Price of Ambition,” 154. If his real desire: DJQA, April 1, 13, 1796. 4 Joshua Johnson had arrived: Edward S. Delaplaine, The Life of Thomas Johnson (New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Grafton Press, 1927), 13–15; Edward Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchant in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763–1805 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 53; Jacob M. Price, “Introduction,” Joshua Johnson’s Letterbook 1771–1774: Letters from a Merchant in London to His Partners in Maryland, ed. Jacob M. Price (London: London Record Society, 1979), British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol15/vii-xxviii (accessed May 10, 2015). Early success made: JJ to the firm, June 4, 1771, JJ to John Davidson, July 22, 1771, in Price, Letterbook. When he arrived: JJ to the firm, April 26, 1773, in Price, Letterbook. Business was volatile: Price, “Introduction,” Letterbook; Jacob M. Price, “Joshua Johnson in London, 1771–1775: Credit and Commercial Organization in the British Chesapeake Trade,” in Statesmen, Scholars, and Merchants: Essays in Eighteenth-Century History Presented to Dame Lucy Sutherland, ed. Anne Whiteman, J. S. Bromley, and P. G. M. Dickson (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1973), 155–59. In 1773, he moved: JJ to the firm, November 6, 1771, November 29, 1773, in Price, Letterbook. Joshua and Catherine: Price, “Introduction,” Letterbook. The first re
ference: Heffron, Louisa Catherine, 14. After that, and without: Joan Challinor, “The Mis-Education of Catherine Johnson,” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings 98 (1986): 24; JJ to Matthew Ridley, July 21, 1786, Letterbook, Peter Force Collection, LC. Since he kept: For Martin Newth as a shoemaker, see Gazetteer and London Daily Advertiser, August 11, 1756; London Public Advertiser, October 23, 1776; Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, November 7, 1776; and Old Bailey Proceedings Online, January 1730, trial of Richard Smith, www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, accessed May 7, 2015. Land tax records locate Martin Newth in Portsoken in 1769, around the corner from Tower Hill, and in Stepney between 1773 and 1781 (London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692–1932), London Metropolitan Archives, database online accessed through Ancestry.com. “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:7. So why did: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:20. It is possible: Ibid., 3. She invested it: Recuperating from their daughter Harriet’s birth in 1781, Catherine dictated a letter to Joshua (“Mrs. Johnson’s indisposition will prevent her from doing it herself”): “Inclosed we forward you an invoice . . . amounting to £502 which Mrs. Johnson [asks] you will please to receive & dispose of on her account, for bills or hard money only & remit the net proceeds immediately in good bills of exchange on Europe.” Other parcels, he added, would follow. (Heffron, Louisa Catherine, 17.) It is, of course: Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800, 609; E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, Population History of England, 1541–1871 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 254, 266; Sarah M. S. Pearsall, Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2008), 48. Stone’s evolutionary approach and handling of evidence has come under some criticism. For a sharp take, see Alan Macfarlane, History and Theory, Studies in the Philosophy of History, 18 (1979), 103–26. The ruse worked: Hanson’s Laws of Maryland 1763–1784, 203:383, Archives of Maryland Online, http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000203/html/ (accessed May 10, 2015). And he seemed: JJ to Matthew Ridley, January 6, 1773, JJ to Ridley, November 3, 1773, and JJ to Denton Jacques, March 18, 1773, in Joshua Johnson Letterbook, 1771–74, Hall of Records, Maryland State Archives. It would have been: Nancy Ridley to Matthew Ridley, October 20, 1778, Ridley Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society. Joshua Johnson and Catherine Newth: Challinor, “The Mis-Education of Catherine Johnson,” 24; Joshua Johnson and Catherine Newth, August 22, 1785, Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538–1812, London: London Metropolitan Archives, database online accessed through Ancestry.com. Catherine had her own: Frances Huttson to Matthew Ridley, August 6, 1783, Ridley Letters II; William Cranch to AA, May 8, 1798, AA to JQA, May 15, 1800, AFP. How much: JJ to John Jay, September 9, 1785, Joshua Johnson Letterbook, Peter Force Collection, LC. “All families are not”: LCA to Abigail Brooks Adams, March 2, 1834, AFP. Louisa’s descendants in fact: Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr., July 12, 1900, Fourth Generation Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society; Michael O’Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 76. But Catherine Newth’s: Catherine Newth baptismal record, May 25, 1749, St. Thomas the Apostle, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538–1812, London: London Metropolitan Archives, database online accessed through Ancestry.com. Martin Newth and Mary Young, February 13, 1728, St. Andrew Holborn, England Parish Registers, 1538–1812, London: London Metropolitan Archives, database online accessed through Ancestry.com. Examples of birth and burial records of children of Martin and Mary Newth include William Newth baptism, July 30, 1730, St. Botolph Aldersgate; William Newth burial, February 12, 1731; Mary Newth baptism, November 12, 1731, St. Botolph Aldersgate; Martin Newth baptism, February 19, 1737, St. Stephen, Coleman St.; John Newth baptism, December 23, 1739, St. Stephen, Coleman St.; Anne Newth baptism, July 2, 1742, St. Stephen, Coleman St.; Anne Newth burial, April 4, 1747, St. Thomas the Apostle, England Parish Registers, 1538–1812, London: London Metropolitan Archives, database online accessed through Ancestry.com. Whatever Louisa discovered: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:19. In his diary: DJQA, April 13, 15, 16, 18, 1796. She admitted to him: O’Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter, 215. Faced with an engagement: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:38. Louisa was devastated: Ibid., 43. She did try, once: Ibid., 42–43. They said goodbye: JQA to JA, June 6, 1796, in Writings of John Quincy Adams 1:490; JQA to AA, June 30, 1796, AFP; DJQA, May 27, 1796. So he went: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:43. 5 Their betrothal was: LCJ to JQA, July 4, 1796, AFP. His first letter: JQA to LCJ, June 2, 1796, AFP. Her memory did: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:44; LCJ to JQA, July 4, 1796, AFP. It had been six years: LCJ to JQA, December 30, 1796, February 17, 1797, AFP. She was determined: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:46. There was no way: JQA to LCJ, July 9, 1796, LCJ to JQA, July 25, 1796, AFP. The news shook him: JQA to LCJ, August 13, October 12, 1796, AFP. “If possible teach”: LCJ to JQA, December 6, 1796, AFP. She tried to convince: LCJ to JQA, September 30, December 30, 1796, AFP. Meanwhile, John Quincy’s parents: JQA to AA, November 17, 1795, AA to JQA, August 10, May 20, 1796, AFP. John Quincy still blamed: JQA to AA, August 16, 1796, AFP. The elder Adamses: Joseph J. Ellis, Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 72–75; AA to JQA, August 10, 1796, AFP. “A young lady”: JA to JQA, August 7, 1796, AFP. 6 Louisa grew desperate: LCJ to JQA, November 29, 1796, JQA to JJ, January 9, 1797, JQA to LCJ, January 10, 1797, AFP. John Quincy did not: Price explores the volatility of JJ’s first venture into the London market in “Joshua Johnson in London,” 152–80. Joshua had dark eyes: William Cranch to AA, May 8, 1798, AFP; Papenfuse, In Pursuit of Profit, 202–29. His latest problem: JJ to John Trumbull, November 18, December 13, 1796, May 6, May 12, 1797, Trumbull Papers, MS 506, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. John Quincy had some hint: JJ to JQA, November 29, 1796, AFP. Whatever the truth: JQA to LCJ, January 10, 31, 1797, AFP. She recoiled from: LCJ to JQA, January 31, 1797, AFP. They engaged in: JQA to LCJ, February 12, January 31, 10, 1797, AFP. She found his: LCJ to JQA, January 1, 1797, AFP. They were at cross-purposes: JQA to LCJ, May 31, 1797, AFP. At the time, spouses generally addressed each other formally. See, for instance, JA on the subject in JA to Charles Adams, December 31, 1795, AFP. I am grateful to Amanda Norton for pointing out the letter. “I am so miserably”: LCJ to JQA, December 30, 1796, AFP. “I will freely confess”: JQA to LCJ, February 20, 1797, AFP. They were pushed: LCJ to JQA, February 17, 1797, AFP. On April 13, 1797: JQA to LCJ, April 13, 1797, AFP. He gave Louisa: JQA to LCJ, May 12, 1797, AFP. That she would be: JQA to LCJ, February 7, 1797, AFP. 7 John Quincy arrived: DJQA, July 13, 1797; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:47–48. In fact, the wedding: JQA to JA, July 22, 1797, AFP. Late mornings followed: DJQA, October 15, 1797. Louisa was happy: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:50. The celebrations for: Ibid.; DJQA, October 15, 1797. Unknown to Louisa: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:52; DJQA, August 25, September 8, 1797. The story she: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:50–52. She had small: Taylor et al. v. Johnson et al., May 14, 1805, Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Wills and Other Probate Records, Kew, Surrey, England: PRO Publications; Taylor v. Maitland, bill and answer, 1806, C 13/71/37, the National Archives, Kew, England; JJ to Matthew Ridley, February 14, 1787, Joshua Johnson Letterbook, Peter Force Collection, LC. The thought did cross: DJQA, October 9, 1797. John Quincy loathed: Edmund S. Morgan, “Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox,” in The Confederate Experience Reader, ed. John Derrick Fowler (New York: Routledge, 2007), 15–16; JQA to Charles Adams, August 1, 1797, Letterbook 9, AFP; David McCullough, John Adams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 548. The status of debt relief in the United States was a critical topic at the turn of the nineteenth century. See Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the
Age of American Independence (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). To Louisa’s humiliation: Frederick Delius to JQA, September 29, 1797, AFP; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:52. John Quincy passed: JQA to JJ, October 11, 1797, AFP; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:52; JQA to JJ, October 11, 1797, JQA to Frederick Delius, September 10, 1797, Delius to JQA, January 18, 1797, AFP. Years later, recounting: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:52. There is little evidence: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:51–53. Louisa saw her character: LCA to CFA, July 30, 1828, AFP. The memory of her: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:77. PART TWO: LIFE WAS NEW
1 They arrived at Gravesend: DJQA, October 18, 19, 21, 1797; JQA to JA, December 10, 1797, AFP. She was sick: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:53; JQA to AA, December 28, 1797, JQA to JA, December 10, 1797, AFP. From Hamburg they traveled: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:54; “Adventures,” DLCA 1:67, 71. A lieutenant stopped: DJQA, November 7, 1797. The tired travelers: DJQA, July 25, 1781. What Louisa thought: Alexandra Richie, Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998), 75; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:55. It was a good place: DJQA, November 12, 1797; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:55. At least her husband: DJQA, November 12–December 1, 1797; JQA to AA, February 5, 1798, AFP. But as he returned,: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:56. She was not locked: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:67. Finally, Miss Dorville,: Ibid., 71; O’Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter, 145–46; The Correspondence of Priscilla, Countess of Westmorland, ed. Lady Rose Weigall (New York, 1909), 104; Princess Louise Radziwill, Forty-five Years of My Life (1770 to 1815), trans. A. R. Allinson (New York: McBride, Nast & Co., 1912), 431. “a face like a horse”: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:57. So arrangements were: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:57–59; O’Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter, 147–49. The queen, though: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:57; Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 319–21. It was not out: Michael O’Brien makes this point well in Mrs. Adams in Winter, 121. After her presentation: “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:59; “Adventures,” DLCA 1:74. 2 John Quincy was determined: Writings of John Quincy Adams, 1:158. Here is where: Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy, 78. The American Revolution: DJQA, February 23, 1795; Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1992), 135–36; Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000), 21–22. John Quincy did not: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:108, 74. It was not easy: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:78–82, 91–92; AA to Mary Smith Cranch, June 13, 1798, quoting LCA to Catherine Johnson (here after CJ), AFP; O’Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter, 148–50. Louisa also spent countless hours: AA to Mary Smith Cranch, June 13, 1798, quoting LCA to CJ, AFP; “Adventures of a Nobody,” DLCA 1:79, 95; “Record of a Life,” DLCA 1:60. Her husband was interested: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:82, 146, 86, 111–12, 150, 32. For Kant, see, for instance, JQA to AA, June 11, 1798, and JQA to JA, January 3, 1798, AFP. At the time, facts—and history—were considered men’s pursuits, while emotions—and novels—were feminine. For an insightful discussion, see Lepore, Book of Ages, 237–42. The reading was: LCA to TBA, October 6, 1798, AFP. Louisa and John Quincy celebrated: DJQA, July 31, 26, 1798. Still, there were: LCA to Nancy Hellen, July 8, 1799, LCA to AA, June 12, 1798, AFP. When the rare letters: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:113; LCA to Nancy Hellen, September 11, 1798, AFP. And there was: “Adventures of a Nobody,” DLCA 1:82, 79; TBA, January 25, 1798, Berlin and the Prussian Court in 1798: Journal of Thomas Boylston Adams, Secretary to the United States Legation at Berlin, ed. Victor Hugo Paltsis (New York: New York Public Library, 1915) (hereafter DTBA); “Adventures,” DLCA 1:79. Her success at court: JQA to AA, March 16, 1799, AFP. The conflict arose: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:101, 103–4, 131; DJQA, February 13, 1799. 3 At the start: DJQA, February 16, 1798, March 21, 1798, July 14, 1798. The exact number: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:113; DJQA, December 30, 1800. Her body baffled: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:149. It wasn’t only: DJQA, December 4, 1799. When it came: DJQA, April 27, July 17, 1798, December 31, 1799, February 28, 1800. After yet another: JQA to TBA, August 2, 1800, Letterbook 10, AFP. JQA’s account of the trip through Silesia, written to TBA, was published in the United States in 1801 and in London in 1804. John Quincy Adams, Letters on Silesia, Written During a Tour Through that Country, in the Years 1800, 1801 (London: J. Budd, 1804). He was tender: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:162. He heard the news: JQA to TBA, February 7, 1800, AFP; DJQA, February 5, 1801; JQA to AA, March 10, 1801, AFP. There were signs: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:143–44. Six years later: JQA to LCA, February 16, 1807, AFP. Queen Luise was: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:140, 138; JQA to TBA, March 28, 1801, Letterbook 10, AFP. She and John Quincy: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:144, 152. In mid-April, Louisa: “Adventures,” DLCA 1:154–56; JQA to AA, April 14, 29, 1801, AFP; DJQA, April 29, 1801. PART THREE: MY HEAD AND MY HEART
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