A traveled first lady : writings of Louisa Catherine Adams / edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor ; foreword by Laura Bush.
Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. Telling the story of her own life, juxtaposed with rich descriptions of European courts, Washington political maneuvers, and the continuing Adams family drama, Louis...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- "All was joy and peace and love": youth
- "An object of general attention": Prussia
- "Had I steped into Noah's ark": United States
- "The savage had been expected": Russia
- "The memory of one, who was": St. Petersburg to Paris
- "The wife of a man of superior talents": Washington, D.C., 1819-1820
- "I am a very good diplomate": Washington, D.C., 1821-1824
- "This apparent fate": retirement
- Epilogue: Henry Adams on Louisa.