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Adams's LETTERS.(Brief Article)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20000622
Author:RONNICK, MICHELE VALERIE

The letters of Henry Adams are replete with literary allusions to works written during his own era and previous ones. The allusions give point and meaning to his unique prose style. Editors such as J C. Levenson and Ernest Samuels have identified many of them. [1] But there is one allusion that has not been examined. In a letter to his close friend Charles Milnes Gaskell, written on 2 May 1909, from his address in Paris, Adams expressed his despair over the taxation of the upper classes and the rise of socialism in general:

The process of leveling down,--of growing laterally ...

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