Letter, Oct. 8 to Francis Parkman.

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Letter, Oct. 8 to Francis Parkman.

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Adams expresses regrets that he missed Parkman as "vast masses of history are accumulating" which he wanted Parkman to read before publication, and states that his thoughts at present are more concerned with building his new house than with literature.

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Boston Athenaeum

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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...

Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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