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The Selected Letters of Henry Adams.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19920615
Author:Jacobson, Joanne

It is tempting to dismiss as anachronisms both Henry Adams, an epitome of his type, the genteel bigot; and the letter, an artifact of the drawing room and the study, of the era before the telephone. Private, plotting, the letter seems the perfect medium for Adams to have turned to in privileged alienation: "I am much flattered if regarded as bric-a-brac of a style,--dixhuitieme by preference, rather than early Victorian," he wrote with stubborn pleasure to Henry James in 1909. Through correspondence Adams could simultaneously vent his frustration with the changes wrought by the ...

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