A traveled first lady: writings of Louisa Catherine Adams

"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.