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The letters of Henry Adams / edited by J.C. Levenson ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library E175.5.A2 A4 1982 v.1-6 v.1 v.2 v.3 v.4 v.5 v.6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adams, Henry, 1838-1918.
- Adams, Henry.
- Historians--United States--Correspondence.
- Historians.
- Civilization.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--1865-1918--Sources.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ;c28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- 'The Letters Of Henry Adams' consists of a three volume set which chronicles the people, events, and ideas Adams recorded, with brilliance and wit.--Volume I shows him growing from a high-spirited but self-conscious twenty-year-old to a self-assured man of the world. --Volume II takes him from his years as a crusading journalist in Grant's Washington, through his marriage to Clover Hooper and his pioneer work as a history professor at Harvard and editor of the 'North American Review, ' to his settling in Washington as a professional historian. This halcyon period comes to a catastrophic close with Clover's suicide.--Volume III traces his gradual recovery from the shock of his wife's death as he seeks distraction in travel--to Japan, to Cuba, and in 1891-92 to the South Seas--a recovery complicated by his falling dangerously in love with Elizabeth Cameron, a beautiful young wife of a leading senator.
- Contents:
- v. 1. 1858-1868
- v. 2. 1868-1885
- v. 3. 1886-1892
- v. 4. 1892-1899.
- v. 5. 1899-1905.
- v. 6. 1906-1918.
- Notes:
- Publication of the letters sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674526856
- OCLC:
- 59831507
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