evews of the day.

LETTERS

OF

diremas (Smut)
MRS. ADAMS,

THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR

BY HER GRANDSON,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

VOLUME II.

SECOND EDITION.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

M DCCC XL.

E

322.1 .A3 1840 V, 2

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

BOSTON:
PRINTED BY FREEMAN AND BOLLES,

WASHINGTON STREET.

CONTENTS.

1784.

To Mrs. Cranch. 6-30 July. Journal on board ship

Active. Fellow passengers. Arrival at Deal. Mode

of landing on the beach. Journey to London. Seiz-

ure of a highwayman. Visiters in London. Copley's

paintings. Mrs. Wright's wax figures. The Found-

ling and Magdalen hospitals. Arrival of her son

To the same. 5 September. At Auteuil. Describes

her house. Habits and expense of living in France.

Servants

To Miss Lucy Cranch. 5 September.

Difference of

travelling in France and in England. Prefers London

to Paris. Dines with a French lady at Dr. Franklin's.

Her disgust

To Mrs. Cranch. 9-12 December. Her solitude out of

Paris. Expense of living. Visit to the Marquise de la

Fayette who dines with her. Manners and dress of

French ladies. Arrival of letters from home. Loth

to part with her son

To Mrs. Shaw. 14 December. Auteuil famous only as

the residence of learned men. French habits on Sun-

day. Fondness for display. Great number of domes-

tics

Page

3

45

53

57

67

1785.

To the Rev. John Shaw. 18 January. The churches in

Paris.

Auricular confession.

Page

Visits the Church of St.

Roch. Chorus of charity boys. The Abbé Thayer 71

Climate of France. Dress

Melodramatic pantomime.

To Mrs. Storer. 20 January.

and manners of the ladies.

To Miss Lucy Cranch. 24 January. Reproves her for

her handwriting. Twelfth-day cake. The way king-

doms are obtained

To Mrs. Cranch. 20 February -13 March. Effect upon

her of opera dancing. It injures the public morals.

Dinners at the Marquis de la Fayette's and at home

To Miss Lucy Cranch. 7 May. Dines at Mr. Jeffer-

son's. Walk in the gardens of the Tuileries

To Mrs. Shaw. 8 May. Regret at leaving Auteuil.

Expense of frequent removals. Clothing injured in

travelling. Anecdote

To Mrs. Cranch. 8-10 May. Feels her absence from

home. Her son about to leave her

To the same. 24 June. Arrival in London. Looking

for a house. Expense of living. Impostors. Mr.

Adams presented to the King and Queen. A visit

from Lady Effingham. Ceremony of presentation indis-

pensable. Her own dress and that of her daughter.

She describes the scene. Want of female beauty at

Court. Tory abuse

To Mrs. Shaw. 15 August.

Her dwelling well situated.

Illiberality of the English to other nations.

Reasons

why she prefers America to Europe. English hostility

to the former

To Miss Lucy Cranch. 27 August.

Value of Richardson's writings.

Joshua Reynolds

To John Quincy Adams. 6 September.

74

78

81

85

90

93

96

106

Letter-writing.

Extract from Sir

109

How she spent

Sunday. Arrival of letters from home. Joy and grief

near akin. Remarks upon the policy of England to-

wards America. The Cardinal de Rohan

To Mrs. Cranch. 30 September. Dislikes the Court.