Louisa Catherine Adams was the first lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 during the presidency of her husband John Quincy Adams. She was born in England and raised in France. Her father was an influential American merchant, and she was regularly introduced to prominent Americans. After her family returned to England, she met John Quincy Adams in 1795, and the two began a tenuous courtship. They married in 1797 after being engaged for a year, beginning a marriage of disagreements and personality conflicts. She joined her husband on his diplomatic mission to Prussia, where she was popular with the Prussian court. When they returned to the United States, her husband became a senator and she gave birth to three sons. John was appointed minister to the Russian Empire in 1809, and they traveled to the Russian Empire without their two older sons, against Louisa's wishes.
St Petersburg Novbr: 6 1814 My Dearest Friend Bad news still keeps pouring on us and your prophecies are too fatally accomplished It is to day announced in the Papers…
St: Petersburg Novbr: 8th 1814 My best Friend Your Letters arrive so regularly that it is scarcely necessary to acknowledge the receipt of them. by your last I find you…
St Petersburg Novbr. 25. 1814. My best and Dearest Friend Your charming letter only reached me last night the roads being very bad but it came time enough to put…
St Petersburg Novbr: 26 1814 My best Friend I did not mean to offend you, in what I wrote you concerning the information you gave. but I was so much…
St Petersburg Decbr. 2d 1814 My best Friend Yours of the eighth is come not to fill me with doubts because that was already effected but to make those doubts…
St Petersburg December 20th 1814 My best friend I was much disappointed at the receipt of your last letter having flatter’d myself that you would have had some letters from…
St Petersburg December 27 1814 My best Friend With what pleasure I read your last kind Letter you are capable of judging who are so well acquainted with the warmth…
St Petersburg Janry 11 1815 My best Friend I can scarcely find time to write you < , Start deletion, into , End, > even a few lines having been…
St Petersburg Janry. 20 1815 My best Friend Conceive the astonishment your Letter caused me if you can and still more the Treaty which is published in the English Papers…
St Petersburg, Febry. 7th. 1815 My best Friend I address you once more from this place and I cannot yet say when I shall be able to leave it as…
St Petersburg 12 Febry. 1815 My best Friend. I am this instant setting off and have only time to say that nothing can equal my impatience to see you some…
Riga Febry. 17th. 1815 My best Friend We have proceeded thus far on our journey as well and with as much pleasure as we could possibly have expected and the…
Berlin March 5 1815 My Best friend After a very troublesome and tedious journey we have happily arrived at Berlin where I expected to have found Letters from you but…
Little Boston House Ealing Augt. 6. 1815 My Dear Mother Your kind Letters have remained unanswered much longer than I intended owing to the constant employment Mr. Adams found me…
Ealing Novbr. 24th. 1815 My Dear Mother I found your note this morning on my plate when I enterred the breakfast room and hasten to offer you my congratulations on…
Ealing 17th: May 1816. My Dear Mother Within a few days I have received your two very kind letters of April and am sincerely grieved to find your health still…
Ealing 4 July 1816. My Dear Mother We have been some time now without receiving Letters from you, although we have heard of you from other branches of the family.…
Ealing 31 July 1816. I have been very negligent my Dear Sister in not sooner answering your very affectionate Letter for which negligence I confess I have no substantial excuse…
Ealing 11 September 1816 As the Galen is about to sail my dear Madam I hasten to inform you that we have at length received the Watches sent by Mr.…
Ealing 11th: Novbr. 1816 My Dear Mother Mr. Adams brought me your very kind Letter from Town the day before yesterday dated in Septbr: and was very happy to find…
12 April 1817. Mrs Adams requests the favor of an order from Mr Hamilton to receive from the Custom House a small Packet containing Childrens caps brought by Mr Oswald…
Quincy 22d August 1817 Dear Boyd Your kind Letter was put into my hand this morning and I have to thank you for the readiness with which you executed the…
New York 13th.[ , Start insertion, —16 , End, ] Septbr 1817 My Dear Mother We have arrived safely at this place after a fatiguing journey owing to the dust…
Washington 18 October 1817 Dear John I am so much pleased with your last Letter of 7th. instant that I sieze the earliest < , Start deletion, of , End,…