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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
Date: 19860101
Author:James D. Hart

Adams, Henry [ Brooks ] (1838–1918), great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, claims in his autobiography that his conventional education was defective, despite the best Boston and Quincy background, Harvard, German postgraduate training, and his position as secretary to his father ( Charles Francis Adams) when he represented the U.S. as minister to England during the Civil War. Henry Adams's first publication, an article on Captain John Smith (1867), was followed by other contributions to periodicals, including a review of Lyell's Principles ...

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