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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12 (Hardcover)
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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12 (Hardcover)
Series: Adams Papers
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Volume 12 of Adams Family Correspondence, with 276 documents
spanning from March 1797 through April 1798, opens with the
inauguration of John Adams as president and closes just after
details of the XYZ affair are made public in America. Through
private networks of correspondence, the Adamses reveal both their
individual concerns for the well-being of the nation and the depth
of their public and political engagement with the republic.
Abigail's letters to friend and foe demonstrate the important role
she played as an unofficial member of the administration. John
Quincy and Thomas Boylston's letters from The Hague, Paris, London,
and finally Berlin offer keen observations about the political
turmoil in France and its consequences, the shifting European
landscape as a result of the war, and court life in Berlin
following the coronation of Frederick William III. In the midst of
crisis, the family's domestic life and personal connections
challenged and sustained them. The marriage of John Quincy and
Louisa Catherine Johnson in London in July 1797 gave the family
cause for celebration, while John's appointment of John Quincy as
U.S. minister to Prussia created a minor rift as the scrupulous
younger Adams struggled with concerns about nepotism. Visits
between the elder Adamses and their children Nabby and Charles in
New York provided welcome distractions, even as John and Abigail
worried about Nabby's domestic situation. With the characteristic
candor and perception expected from the Adamses, this volume again
features forthright commentary from one family at the center of it
all.
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