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In the archives.(letters of Henry Adams and Isabella Gardner)

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From: Harvard Review
Date: 20061201
Author:Vigderman, Patricia

Sometimes their handwriting was just a damn scrawl, like email full of typos; they wrote so many letters, little notes, whipping off a dozen in a morning, and the mail delivered several times a day. You have to guess at some of the words; the transcripts leave blanks. Or they refer to things there's no record of, like an automobile accident Isabella Gardner had in France before she met up with Henry Adams in the summer of 1906. A collision perhaps, a mishap on the road that had great drama when it happened but no consequences for the story that can be told about her because there ...

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