Correspondence concerning Henry Adams, 1838-1951.

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Correspondence concerning Henry Adams, 1838-1951.

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Chiefly letters by Blackmur to Louisa Hooper Thoron, niece of Mrs. Henry Adams, concerning Blackmur's research and writings on Henry Adams. Includes letters to Mrs. Thoron from others concerning his research on Adams as well as from friends and family members. Also includes two letters by Henry Adams and seven letters from Mrs. Thoron to Henry Adams.

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965

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American literary critic, author, and professor of English at Princeton University from 1951. From the description of Manuscripts. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529910 Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. From the description of Poems, 1921-1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505745 From the guide to the R. P. (Richard P.) Blackmur poems, 1921-1964., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...

Thoron, Louisa Hooper.

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Mrs. Ward Thoron was the niece of writer Henry Brooks Adams's wife. From the description of Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1941. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190589296 ...