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A Traveled First Lady A Traveled First Lady Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams Edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor Foreword by Laura Bush The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press cambridge, massachusetts london, en gland 2014 Copyright © 2014 by the Massachusetts Historical Society All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Dean Bornstein An excerpt from Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version, ed. Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007), pp. 13– 15, appears in the Epilogue, courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775– 1852. A traveled fi rst lady : writings of Louisa Catherine Adams / edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor ; foreword by Laura Bush. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 04801- 0 (alk. paper) 1. Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775– 1852. 2. Presidents’ spouses— United States— Biography. 3. Adams, John Quincy, 1767– 1848. I. Hogan, Margaret A. II. Taylor, C. James, 1945– I II. Title. E377.2.A34 2014 973.5'5092—dc23 [B] 2013031131 For our mothers: Katherine Ann Hogan Dorothy Isabel Taylor One of the greatest taxes I have to pay is that of concealing that I am a travelled Lady. —Louisa Catherine Adams, 9 February 1821 Contents Foreword by Laura Bush xi Introduction xv Note to the Reader xxiii 1. “All Was Joy and Peace and Love”: Youth 1 2. “An Object of General Attention”: Prus sia 34 3. “Had I Steped into Noah’s Ark”: United States 86 4. “The Savage Had Been Expected”: Rus sia 144 5. “ The Memory of One, Who Was”: St. Petersburg to Paris 187 6. “ The Wife of a Man of Superior Talents”: Washington, D.C., 1819– 1820 216 7. “ I Am a Very Good Diplomate”: Washington, D.C., 1821– 1824 265 8. “This Apparent Fate”: Retirement 326 Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa 362 Chronology 367 Ac know ledg ments 375 Index 377 Illustrations follow page 166.
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