ABSTRACT
Once more, in July, 1872, Henry Adams crossed the Atlantic. This time he took with him a wife whom he wanted to introduce to what he knew of Europe. Henry wrote, on July 12th, in their joint communique: “Long fight with seasickness. Clover quite upset. Wishes she had staid at home. Much sleep. An hour or two walk on bridge. The weather improved, the voyage ended, and they got off the ship at Liverpool. Next day they went to look at medieval Chester, and the next day, went on to Wenlock Abbey where Charles Milnes Gaskell, Henry’s devoted friend of the war days, was their host. History and tourism pulled them in a rush from one city to another: Bonn, Cologne, Bingen, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, and Basel. Carrying a growing library of history books, the young Adamses moved again across Germany.
