Letters to various correspondents, 1881-1947.

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Letters to various correspondents, 1881-1947.

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Letters address personal finance issues, wedding presents to family members, and Adams' thoughts after his wife died. Adams also writes about past and present pesidents and politics, the Marbury versus Madison U.S. Supreme court case, replies to his friends' solicitations for books, dinner invitations, living in Washington D.C., and travels through Mexico and Shropshire, England.

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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...