EPILOGUE. 1818–26
1. JA to Caroline de Windt, 15 March 1820, AP, reel 124.
2. JA to LCA, 8 May 1820, AP, reel 124; JA to LCA, 29 January 1820, AP, reel 124.
3. LCA to JA, 16 April 1819, AP, reel 124.
4. LCA, The Adventures of a Nobody, AP, reel 269.
5. JA to Peter de Windt, 15 March 1820, AP, reel 124; JA to Elihu Marshall, 7 March 1820, Works 10:388–89.
6. JA to LCA, 21 October 1820, AP, reel 450.
7. JA to TJ, AJ 2:571–72.
8. TJ to JA, AJ 2:600–601.
9. JA to TJ, AJ 2:601–2.
10. TJ to JA, AJ 2:613–14.
11. JA to CFA, 3 December 1825, AP, reel 473.
12. Josiah Quincy, Figures of the Past (Boston, 1883), 61; Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart (New York, 1986), 187; JA to Charles Carroll, 12 July 1820, AP, reel 123.
13. Quincy, Figures of the Past, 64–65.
14. Ibid., 80–82.
15. JA to LCA, 22 December 1818, AP, reel 123.
16. JA to JQA, 24 December 1818, AP, reel 123; JA to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1812, in Alexander Biddle, ed., Old Family Letters (Philadelphia, 1892) 432.
17. JA to JQA, 24 December 1818, AP, reel 123.
18. JA to Alexander Johnson, 4 January 1823, AP, reel 124.
19. JA to JQA, 24 May 1815, AP, reel 122.
20. JA to TJ, 17 April 1826, AJ 2:614.
21. JA to TJ, 25 February 1825, AJ 2:610.
22. “The Diary of George Whitney,” AP, reel 475.
23. John Marston to JQA, 8 July 1826, AP, reel 476.
24. There has been some suspicion that the reference to Jefferson was fabricated long after the fact, because it seems so melodramatic. But the written account of two witnesses soon after John’s death confirms the remark. See Susan Boylston Adams Clark to Abigail Louise Smith Adams Johnson, 9 July 1826, A. B. Johnson Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph J. Ellis is Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he was dean of the faculty at Mount Holyoke for ten years. His Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson earned the 1997 National Book Award. He has three sons and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen.
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