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.

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