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The Selected Letters Of Henry Adams
Author: Newton Arvin

THE SELECTED LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS LOUIS KRONENBERGER GENERAL EDITOR THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS EDITED BY LIONEL TRILLING THE SELECTED LETTERS OF WILLIAM COWPER EDITED BY MARK VAN DOREN THE SELECTED LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS EDITED BY NEWTON ARVIN OTHER TITLES IN PREPARATION THE SELECTED LETTERS OF THOMAS GRAY EDITED BY JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH ... more »THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LORD BYRON EDITED BY JACQUES BARZUN THE SELECTED LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB EDITED BY T. S. MATHEWS THE SELECTED LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU EDITED BY LOUIS KRONENBERGER THE SELECTED LETTERS OF ANTON CHEKHOV EDITED BY LILLIAN HELLMAN THE SELECTED LETTERS OF SYDNEY SMITH EDITED BY W. H, AUDEN THE SELECTED LETTERS OF FLAUBERT EDITED BY FRANCIS STEEGMULLER THE SELECTED LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEWTON ARVIN NEW YORK FARRAR, STRAUS AND YOUNG, INC. NOTE A I The letters included in this volume, with one exception, have been reprinted, by permission of Houghton, Mifflin Co., from the following volumes A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford two vols. Letters of Henry Adams 1858-1891 and Letters of Henry Adams 1892-1918, both edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres, by Henry Adams, with a Nieces Memories, by Mabel La Farge and Henry Adams and His Friends, by Harold Dean Cater. The letter of Dec. 21, 1884, to Francis Parkman, originally published in Francis Park man, Heroic Historian, by Mason Wade, and reprinted in Henry Adams and His Friends, has been included here by per mission also of the Viking Press and Mr. Wade. The original of this letter is among the Parkman papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The letter of August 10, 1910, to Albert Stan burrough Cook, has been reprinted from the Yale Review of October 1920, by permission of the Yale Review and the Yale University Press. Most of these letters were originally published with some deletions by their editors the deleted passages have not been restored, and a few further omissions have been made, to elimi nate passages of little present interest or importance. Such omis sions, however, are always indicated by the punctuation. v 3 5123133, CONTENTS Introduction ix Some Identifications xxxi Selected Letters I Student, Private Secretary, Journalist 1858-1870 i II The Harvard Years and Washington 1870-1885 59 III Japan, Cuba, the South Seas, Ceylon 1886-1891 9 IV Unity Vs. Multiplicity 1891-1907 174 V Nunc Age 1908-1918 Index 275 vii INTRODUCTION SHORTLY after Lincolns election in the fall of 1860 Henry Adams accompanied his father to Washington, where the elder man was a member of Congress and there they remained until the following March and the inauguration of the new President. Young Adams had gone to Washington partly to write a series of political letters for a Boston newspaper, but the work of com posing them evidently failed to exhaust his literary energies, which were abounding. There were subjects, moreover, that would find no natural place in a newspaper correspondence. I propose, Adams wrote to his brother Charles in December, to write you this winter a series of private letters to show how things look. I fairly confess that I want to have a record of this winter on file, and though I have no ambition nor hope to be come a Horace Walpole, I still would like to think that a cen tury or two hence when everything else about it is forgotten, my letters might still be read and quoted as a memorial of manners and habits at the time of the great secession of 1860. A series of such letters did follow, and now, nearly a century later, though everything else about that winter has hardly been forgotten, Adamss wish seems in a fair way to be modestly realized. More of that in a moment...

ISBN-13: 9781406769203
ISBN-10: 1406769207
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 316
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Publisher: Quasten Press
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