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William B. Bean, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(6):801-804.

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Is it any consolation to remember her as she was? that bright, intrepid spirit, that keen, fine intellect, that lofty scorn of all that was mean, that social charm which made your house such a one as Washington never knew before, and made hundreds of people love her as much as they admired her.

—John Hay to Henry Adams, Dec 9, 1885.

If one is in a serious mood and wishes a moving experience he should contemplate the Adams Monument in the Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC. The haunting figure under the shawl portrays at once the simplest and most complex human prollem. Augustus Saint-Gaudens completed it after many delays, in 1891. Its impact on the viewer is enhanced by the bleak granite backing designed by Stanford White. Thirty-two years after Marian Adams' death, Henry Adams was buried at her side in accordance with these instructions in his . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Department of Medicine, University Hospitals, Iowa City.

Footnotes
The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams 1865-1883. Edited by Ward Thorn, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1936.

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