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CHAPTER 36: RECALL AND RELOCATION
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267 It is confidently: LA to AA, Feb. 14, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
267 cheerfully acquiesce: Ibid.
267 Our solicitude and anxiety: Ibid.
267 Most of the members: DLA, Feb. 21, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
268 None of them are handsome: Ibid.
268 At ten o-clock went: Ibid.
268 The invitation was to: Ibid.
269 The conversation turned: Ibid.
269 Particularly of the: Ibid.
269 I was perfectly enragé: Ibid.
269 I told him that: Ibid.
269 My situation was becoming: Ibid.
269 What on earth is so: Ibid.
270 masquerade for: Ibid., Feb. 26, 1811.
270 Lent begins this day: Ibid., Feb. 24, 1811.
270 Caulaincourt has received his: WJQA, JQA to AA, Mar. 19, 1811, IV, 26.
270 one of the greatest enoblemen: Ibid.
270 He was happy: MJQA, Mar. 18, 1811, II, 246.
271 At least it may be: WJQA, JQA to SOS, Feb. 19, 1811, IV, 18.
271 If . . . according to the: Ibid., 16.
271 unless it be: Ibid.
272 The coolness or misunderstanding: WJQA, JQA to SOS, Feb. 12, 1811, IV, 13.
272 In constant expectation: DLA, May 13, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
273 The weather was: MJQA, May 6, 1810, II, 260.
273 It was very long: Ibid.
273 I believed it was: Ibid.
273 of late been: Ibid.
273 any late accounts: Ibid.
273 I had letters up: Ibid.
273 information of any: Ibid.
273 They did not: Ibid.
273 What was the state: Ibid.
273 And I hear you have: Ibid., 261.
274 But it appears to: Ibid.
274 Since then the people: Ibid.
274 On s’agrandit toujours: Ibid.
274 a very important personage: Ibid.
274 Such is the magic of: Ibid.
274 And every new mujik: Ibid.
275 The catastrophe is: WJQA, JQA to SOS, April 29, 1811, IV, 63.
CHAPTER 37: CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTRACTIONS
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276 I immediately saw: DLA, May 23, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
276 Went to visit Madame: Ibid., Mar. 29, 1811.
276 They could not conceal: Ibid., May 23, 1811.
277 accepted only to keep: WJQA, AA to JQA, Jan. 20, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
277 I would fain believe: Ibid.
277 I thought it best: Ibid., Jan. 24, 1811.
277 Say to your wife: Ibid.
278 My heart collapsed: DLA, May 23, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
278 The fright produced: Ibid.
278 My physician remained: Ibid.
280 Infant death rate: Center for Disease Control “Deaths: Preliminary Data 2009.” National Vital Statistics Reports, 59, No. 4 (Mar. 2011): 6.
280 The maternal mortality: Center for Disease Control and Prevention “Deaths: Final Data for 2007.” National Vital Statistics Reports, 58, No. 19 (May 10, 2007).
280 A favorable change: DLA, May 23, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
280 Mr. Krehmer sent me: MJQA, May 24, 1811, II, 267.
280 I fear the British ministry: Ibid.
281 Non nobis Domine!: Ibid.
281 Our trial is now: Ibid., emphasis in original.
CHAPTER 38: SUPREME RECALL
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282 After appearing better: DLA, May 23, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
282 Laudanum was freely: Ibid., May 25, 1811.
282 On awaking I was: Ibid.
282 rush[ed] forth: Ibid.
282 Slowly recovering God: Ibid., May 27, 1811.
282 I have the great pleasure: AA to LA, Jan. 15, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
282 Your mama wrote me: Ibid.
283 The Russian climate is: Ibid.
283 Was able to sit: DLA, May 31, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
283 I have the satisfaction: MJQA, June 2, 1811, II, 275.
283 This appointment will: Ibid., 365.
284 Monsieur Adams, il: Ibid., May 31, 1811, 267.
284 to take a house: Ibid., 268.
284 No, I had for some: Ibid.
284 Why: Ibid.
284 Fort bien vous avez: Ibid.
285 received any late news: Ibid.
285 I had: Ibid.
285 They had a very hostile: Ibid.
285 It has, however, very: Ibid.
285 To be sure people: Ibid.
285 Deeply sensible of the: WJQA, JQA to SOS, June 2, 1811, IV, 90.
CHAPTER 39: SUMMER SOLSTICE
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286 With the mind sorely: LA to AA, June 10, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
286 you broke to us: Ibid.
286 I am restored to: Ibid.
287 At least Mr. Adams: Ibid.
287 Mr. A. does not: Ibid.
287 One of them, itself decisive: WJQA, JQA to SOS, June 2, 1811, IV, 90.
287 the new mark of: Ibid., JQA to JM, June 3, 1811, 93.
287 My expectation is to: Ibid., 94.
288 [T]his circumstance places: LA to AA, June 10, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
288 in such a state: Ibid.
289 The commission, inasmuch: WJQA, JQA to JA, June 7, 1811, IV, 99.
289 Yet I am deeply: Ibid.
289 darling boys: Ibid., 100.
289 From this dilemma: Ibid.
290 They wish for: WJQA, footnote to SOS, Feb. 26, 1811, IV, 19, taken from Madison to Jefferson, December 7, 1810. Writings of Madison (Hunt), VIII. 111n.
290 I have long entertained: Ibid., JQA to JM, June 3, 1811, 95.
290 I am sorry, very: Ibid., JQA to JA, June 7, 1811, 102.
291 It has been painful: Ibid., 101.
291 Mr. Navarro brought: DLA, June 20, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
291 In the evening I: MJQA, June 19, 1811, II, 276.
292 I returned again: Ibid.
CHAPTER 40: THE REMOVAL
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293 Mr. Plinky came to: DLA, July [1]], 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
293 This was rather severe: Ibid.
293 I accompanied Mr. Adams: Ibid., July 5, 1811.
294 It is very large: Ibid., July 7, 1811.
294 Went out to: Ibid.
294 Again at the house: Ibid., July 10, 1811.
295 [W]ith the open doors: WJQA, JQA to AA, Oct. 2, 1811, IV, 230.
295 The situation is very: DLA, July 12, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
295 [O]n the days when: WJQA, JQA to AA, Oct. 2, 1811, IV, 230.
296 Madame de Bezzara and Monsieur Navarro: DLA, July 8, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
296 She is a remarkably: Ibid., June 20, 1811.
296 Every way she is full: Ibid.
296 She requests me to: Ibid., July 14, 1811.
296 I cannot refuse but: Ibid.
297 not comparable in: Ibid., May 14, 1811.
297 to take leave of us: Ibid.
297 The emperor governs so: MJQA, May 6, 1811, II, 259.
298 I thought it probable: Ibid., July 15, 1811, 279.
298 How?: Ibid., 280.
298 By not keeping [your] word: Ibid.
298 Oh! But you must: Ibid.
298 Americans will not: Ibid.
298 Ah! Ah! my spies: Ibid.
298 My spies give me: Ibid.
299 Yes; and you have: Ibid.
299 all this was said: Ibid.
299 Mr. & Mrs. Bezzara came: DLA, July 25, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
299 Countess Litta received: Ibid.
299 As however she: Ibid.
299 And when the countess: Ibid.
300 We reached home: Ibid.
300 I have this day: MJQA, July 26, 1811, II, 282.
300 Its greatest alloy: Ibid.
300 But she has always: Ibid.
300 At last for a: Ibid., July 29, 1811.
301 When I look forward: Ibid.
CHAPTER 41: THE CONFINEMENT
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302 The road was crowded: MJQA, Aug. 3, 1811, II, 284.
303 A Portuguese minister’s lady: Ibid., 285.
303 had administered a: WJQA, JQA to George William Erving, Aug. 3, 1811, IV, 176.
303 cherries, strawberries, raspberries: MJQA, Aug. 3, 1811, II, 285.
303 Countess Litta said that: Ibid., 286.
303 They asked the: Ibid.
304 Miss Gourieff told me: Ibid.
304 The daylight was: Ibid.
304 The lines of carriages: Ibid., 287.
304 On arriving at the: Ibid., 288.
305 I now learnt, and: Ibid.
305 If we have a war: WJQA, JQA to TA, July 31, 1811, Reel 411 AFP MHS.
305 A war appears to: Ibid.
306 Whether it be of: Ibid.
306 The school of affliction: Ibid.
307 You come into life: Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 10, 150–152.
307 When I came to: WJQA, JQA to JA, July 21, 1811, IV, 144.
307 More than one of: Ibid.
307 I knew equally well: Ibid.
307 My real motive was: Ibid.
308 How does it appear: Ibid.
308 I entertain some very: Ibid., 145.
308 repair without hesitation: Ibid.
308 For seven months of: Ibid., June 25, 1811, 117.
CHAPTER 42: CHRISTENING REPRISE
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310 We were obliged: DLA, Aug. 11, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
310 Continued quite ill: Ibid., Aug. 12, 1811.
311 Mrs. Heinche left me: DLA, Aug. 12, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
311 This indiscretion nearly: Ibid.
311 This was a day: Ibid.
311 God was very merciful: Ibid.
311 My child a daughter: Ibid.
312 My sister went and: Ibid.
312 This day my lovely: Ibid., Sept. 9, 1811.
312 Because it is done: MJQA, Sept. 9, 1811, II, 305.
312 Because the father: Ibid., 401.
312 The sponsors were strangely: DLA, Sept. 9, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
313 But the rite itself: MJQA, Sept. 9, 1811, II, 305.
313 We dared not ask: DLA, Sept. 9, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
313 The child was baptized: MJQA, Sept. 9, 1811, II, 304.
313 She was named after: DLA, Sept. 9, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
313 The company dined with: Ibid.
CHAPTER 43: COMETS
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314 Monsieur Adams: MJQA, Dec. 9, 1811, II, 329.
314 We have two comets: Ibid.
314 Oh, that is certain: Ibid.
314 But, furthermore, I hear: Ibid.
315 But for this I: Ibid.
315 This was extra: Ibid.
315 C’est un bouleversement: Ibid.
315 But as it is generally: Ibid.
315 Or at least that: Ibid.
315 I congratulate His: Ibid.
315 Il y a moyen d’expliquer: Ibid.
316 I have got into: WJQA, JQA to JA, Oct. 31, 1811, IV, 267.
316 For my own part I: Ibid., Oct. 14, 1811, 244.
316 As respects myself: Ibid., Oct. 31, 1811, 267.
317 The political state of: Ibid., Oct. 14, 1811, 245.
317 moved into a house: DLA, Oct. 10, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
318 In a corner house: MJQA, Oct. 17, 1811, II, 319–20.
318 She had been: Ibid., 320.
318 When: Ibid.
318 More than two: Ibid.
318 What! In the country: Ibid.
318 In the country: Ibid.
318 Had her confinement: Ibid.
318 Entirely so: Ibid.
318 What had she: Ibid.
318 A daughter: Ibid.
318 As he is informed: DLA, Oct. 16, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
318 How inquisitive!!!: Ibid.
319 Everything is changed: Ibid.
319 a constant visitor: Ibid., Nov. 19, 1811.
319 Indeed he was styled: Ibid.
319 O she grows lovely: Ibid.
320 And this is the: Ibid.
320 The domestic tragedy: Ibid.
CHAPTER 44: BALTIC FREEZE
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321 Seized with a violent: DLA, Dec. 7, 1811, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
321 My fever ran so: Ibid.
321 My child was taken: Ibid.
321 Still considered in great: Ibid.
321 Myself out of danger: Ibid.
321 After a long protracted: Ibid., Jan. 28, 1812.
322 The emperor and empresses: MJQA, Dec. 24, 1811, II, 331.
322 The emperor noticed: Ibid.
322 It was not so showy: Ibid.
322 Mr. Adams’s position: DLA, Jan. 28, 1812, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
322 The aspect of society: Ibid.
323 In Europe darkness and gloom: WJQA, JQA to William Plumer, Sept. 8, 1811, IV, 211.
323 out of this darkness: Ibid.
323 A letter full of woe: DLA, Jan. 29, 1812, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
323 [And] that of my brother-in-law: Ibid.
323 Mr. Adams’s Uncle: Ibid.
323 And the dangerous: Ibid.
323 Full of mortal affliction: Ibid., Jan. 31, 1812.
324 How different will: Ibid.
324 He afflicts us in: Ibid.
325 A circumstance which: MJQA, Feb. 4, 1812, II, 335.
325 to be removed to: Ibid.
325 had mentioned it: Ibid.
325 It was much the: Ibid., 335–36.
326 spirit of delirium: WJQA, JQA to William Plumer, Sept. 8, 1811, IV, 211.
326 that Congress will have: WJQA, JQA to AA, Jan. 1, 1812, IV, 284.
326 that in France a: MJQA, Feb. 4, 1812, II, 336.
326 With regard to American: Ibid.
327 Today the impression: Ibid.
327 To make them consistent: Ibid.
327 But in truth, commerce: Ibid.
327 The Emperor Napoleon: Ibid.
327 Tranquility is not: Ibid., 338.
327 I was speaking to him: Ibid., emphasis in original.
327 And now as perhaps: Ibid.
CHAPTER 45: INTERFERENCE
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329 My lovely beautiful: DLA, Feb. 12, 1812, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
329 Ah! The fountain of: Ibid.
329 Everyone who sees: Ibid.
329 The Russians are very: Ibid.
329 Toward evening my: Ibid.
330 The emperor said he: MJQA, Mar. 3, 1812, II, 345.
330 always made it: Ibid.
330 not suffer from: Ibid.
330 On the contrary: Ibid.
330 He had then worn: Ibid.
330 A physician therefore: Ibid.
330 You are not of my: Ibid.
331 I had so long been: Ibid.
331 But there are now: Ibid.
331 And so it is: Ibid., Mar. 19, 1812, 352.
331 But are all hopes: Ibid.
331 At all events we: Ibid.
331 Then as Your Majesty: Ibid.
331 I wish it may: Ibid., in French.
332 In my walk before: Ibid., April 9, 1812, 356.
332 That the floods would: Ibid.
332 The emperor is to: Ibid.
332 Two days before: WJQA, JQA to SOS, April 28, 1812, IV, 314.
332 What was the precise: MJQA, April 20, 1812, II, 361.
333 I was perfectly sure: Ibid., 361–62.
333 And unless restored: Ibid., 362.
333 I thought their existence: Ibid.
333 Did I think Mr. Perceval: Ibid.
333 I believed he would: Ibid.
333 But as it is the: WJQA, JQA to AA, April 30, 1812, IV, 322.
333 In that case we: Ibid.
334 I expressly requested: Ibid.
334 But as far as I can: Ibid., JQA to AA, May 28, 1812, 341.
334 precious engagement: Ibid.
CHAPTER 46: TOMORROW
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335 soured and exasperated: MJQA, June 19, 1812, II, 377.
335 I asked him where: Ibid., 379.
335 Perhaps at Warsaw: Ibid.
335 They think because: Ibid.
335 But with such a man: Ibid.
336 The facts show: Ibid.
336 My own disposition: Ibid., June 21, 1812, 379.
336 A father of a: Ibid.
336 perpetual temptations: Ibid.
337 What with all the: Ibid., 380.
337 June 22, 1812: Tim Blanning, Pursuit of Glory, 663.
337 June 23: John Powell, Chronology of European History, 780–81.
337 June 24, 1812: David Warnes, Chronology of the Tzars, 154.
CHAPTER 47: HEAVEN
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339 We have lived: WJQA, JQA to JA, June 29, 1812, IV, 358.
339 The most powerful: Ibid.
339 I had flattered myself: Ibid., 359.
340 The Perceval policy: Ibid.
340 I am 45 years old: MJQA, July 11, 1812, II, 387.
340 hostage or a prisoner: Ibid., 386.
341 They prepare for illumination: Ibid.,July 9, 1812, 386.
342 On the 16th of June: WJQA, JQA to AA, July 13, 1812, IV, 367.
342 My principal anxiety: Ibid., 368.
342 I am uneasy lest: Ibid., 369.
342 My coachman this morning: MJQA, July 22, 1812, II, 392.
343 The official news: Ibid.
343 I walked before breakfast: Ibid., Aug. 3, 1812, 395.
343 I then flattered myself: WJQA, JQA to AA, Aug. 10, 1812, IV, 388.
344 In this hope I: Ibid.
344 After reading Mr. Foster’s: Ibid.
344 I lament the declaration: Ibid.
344 no alternative left: Ibid.
344 How far the policy: Ibid., 389.
344 My own most fervent: Ibid.
345 Our horses ran without: MJQA, Aug. 14, 1812, II, 397.
345 Went into the country: DLA, Aug. 3, 1812, Reel 269 AFP MHS.
345 I had not expected: MJQA, Sept. 10, 1812, II, 401.
345 He professed to: Ibid.
346 I assured him that: Ibid.
346 But the violence: DJQA, Sept. 11, 1812.
346 My dear child: Ibid., Sept. 12, 1812.
347 Language cannot express: Ibid.
347 Her mother, fond: Ibid., Sept. 13, 1812.
347 could not keep: Ibid., Sept. 14, 1812.
347 A gleam of voluntary: Ibid.
347 The Lord gave: Ibid., Sept. 15, 1812.
347 My dear wife: Ibid.
348 My child gone to heaven: DLA, Sept. 12[15], 1812, Reel 269 AFP MHS. Note: JQA Diary documents death on Sept. 15.
348 Believing in the: DJQA, Sept. 15
348 I endeavor to: Ibid., Sept. 17.
348 As life is: Ibid.
CHAPTER 48: ENEMY WITHIN
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349 My landlord, Mr. Strogofshikoff: MJQA, Sept. 25, 1812, II, 405.
