Introduction Editorial Note Abbreviations 1. Unweary Traveler 1892 2. Confrontation with Panic 1893 3. Professional Wanderer 1894 4. Imagination, Worship, and War 1895 5. "Let's Get There Quick!" 1896 6. Observer, Analyst, Uncle 1897 7. Diplomat Manque 1898 8. Coming to Rest in Paris 1899
Ernest Samuels is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English, Emeritus, Northwestern University and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
This magnificent edition of letters deserves several reviews-as a monumental scholarly achievement, as an illuminating contribution to American history, as a brilliant example of the art of letter writing, and most of all as an extraordinary personal record of an eminent American, the grandson of one president and greatgrandson of another...In all, a colossal achievement? -- Edward Condren Los Angeles Times Book Review Adams was one of the great letter writers of the English language. Proof is now offered in [this] major publishing event? -- Otto Friedrich Time Henry Adams has become 'an indispensable figure in American thought' during the 60 years, 1858-1918, covered by his correspondence. No mind more richly furnished and widely ranging appeared among his American contemporaries Treasures of The Letters depend on what the reader is seeking. If it is autobiography, there is far more of that here than in The Education of 'Henry Adams...If it is the period and its drama of events, here was a reporter with a box seat and inside information. If it should be the life of the mind, Adams read everything of consequence and usually knew the authors. His picture of transatlantic society is filled out by foreign correspondence and residence abroad about half the time. Seekers for the exotic will find nothing richer in travel literature than his diary-letters from the long stay in the South Pacific islands. And the universal taste for love letters is served by the long withheld or doctored letters to Elizabeth Cameron, the beautiful young wile of the senator from Pennsylvania? -- C. Vann Woodward The Washington Post Adams's letters...reveal an elegant style, a supple intelligence, and a remarkable capacity for observation...His accounts of Samoan life (1890-91) are amazingly precise and sensitive evocations of an alien culture. The letters also show Adams's sustained capacity for loyalty, tenderness, and warmth toward family and friends. His playful letters to children are particularly touching; they express a sensibility that is almost entirely suppressed in his Education. -- T.J. Jackson Lears The Wilson Quarterly To say that one awaits the concluding volumes of these letters with greedy impatience is to understate the case -- John Clive The American Scholar
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