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40 THE CAPITOL DOME pp. 41–60, 69–70, 79–81. 3. "John Quincy Adams," Massachusetts Histor- ical Society, accessed 28 March 2018, http://www. masshist.org/adams/john_quincy_adams; James Traub, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit (New York City, 2016), pp. xi–xv; Charles N. Edel, Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strateg y of the Republic (Cambridge, MA, 2014), pp. 294–96; "The Last Hours of John Quincy Adams," History, Art, & Archives: United States House of Representatives, accessed 6 May 2019, https://history.house.gov/Blog/2019/ February/2–26_JQA_lasthours/. 4. Michael O'Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon (New York City, 2010), pp. xiii–xvi; Louisa Thomas, Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams (New York City, 2016), pp. 6–8, 454. 5. "Louisa Catherine Adams," Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed 28 March 2018, http:// www.masshist.org/adams/louisa_catherine_adams; O'Brien, Mrs. Adams in Winter, pp. xiv–xv; Thomas, Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, pp. 4–6; Margery M. Heffron, Louisa Catherine: The Other Mrs. Adams, ed. David L. Michelmore (New Haven, CT, 2014), pp. 1–5. For a useful, detailed chronology of Louisa's life, see Judith S. Graham, Beth Luey, Margaret A. Hogan, and C. James Taylor, eds., Diary and Auto- biographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA, 2013), 2:777–94. Louisa Catherine endured numerous tragedies including the untimely loss of three of her four children—the eldest to a presumed suicide and the youngest as an infant while she was in Russia. Only Charles Francis Adams (1807–86) survived early adulthood to become a congressman and ambassador to Great Britain, like his father and grandfather before him. 6. Thomas, Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, pp. 6–8, 454–55. 7. David Waldstreicher, ed., John Quincy Adams: Diaries, 2 vols. (New York City, 2017), 1:xiii–xiv; David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary (New York City, 2017), pp. ix–xxi, xv; Traub, John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, p. xvii. The "Note on the Texts" in the Waldstreicher two-volume edition, the most comprehensive version of Adams's diaries, contains more information about how JQA wrote and assembled the diary as well as how the recent edition compares to previous editions. Other editions include Charles Francis Adams's Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 (Philadelphia) between 1874 and 1877, which notably omits most of the details about John Quincy's private life, and historian Allan Nevins's The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794–1845: American Political, Social and Intellectual Life from Wash- ington to Polk (New York City, 1928), which focuses on Adams's social, diplomatic, and political accounts ( John Quincy Adams: Diaries, 2:658–62). For the digi- tized version of the diary manuscripts, see Massachu- setts Historical Society, "The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection," https://www.masshist. org/jqadiaries/php/. For more information about the Adams Family Papers, see https://www.masshist. org/adams/?goto=adams. 8. Heffron, The Other Mrs. Adams, p. 4; Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville, VA, 2000), pp. 147–89; Thomas, Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, pp. 7–8, 410–11, 440–42; Graham, Diary and Autobiographical Writings, 1:xxiv–xxv. 9. Graham, Diary and Autobiographical Writings, 1:xxiv–xxvii. A guide to the Adams Family Papers microfilm can be found at http://www.masshist.org/ collection-guides/view/fa0279. The 730 digitized let- ters can be accessed at https://founders.archives.gov/ search/Author%3A%22Adams%2C%20Louisa%20 Catherine%20Johnson%22; Adams, "Diary of Louisa Catherine Adams," 22 Oct. 1812 to 15 Feb. 1814, in Graham, Diary and Autobiographical Writings, 1:357–74; "Record of a Life," ibid., 1:1–61; "Narrative of a Journey from Russia to France," 27 Jun. 1836, ibid., 1:375–406; "The Adventures of a Nobody," ibid., 1:63–355; Heffron, The Other Mrs. Adams, pp. 311–12; Graham, Diary and Autobiographical Writings, 1:xxv, xliv–xlvii; Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor, eds., A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams (Cambridge, MA, 2014), pp. xxii–xxiii. 10. A l lgor, Parlor Politics, pp. 149, 153; Gra- ham, Diary and Autobiographical Writings, 1:xxiv–xxv; Thomas, Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams, pp. 441– 42; Allgor, Parlor Politics, p. 162. 11. Since Jack Shepherd's path-breaking dual biography, Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams (New York City, 1980), biographies have increasingly considered the joint perspectives of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy. 12. Waldstreicher, John Quincy Adams: Diaries, 1:612-13; Waldstreicher, Politics of Slavery, pp. xviii–