Henry Adams, a man of letters burdened with descent from two US presidents, was born in 1838 when the railroad was a novelty. He became private secretary to his father, a diplomat: “I had little to do, and knew not how to do it rightly.” His wife, Clover, committed suicide in 1885.
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