developing her photographs, and died at age 42. Her husband found her lying on the rug before her bedroom fire. The evening newspaper reported that she had suddenly dropped dead from paralysis of the heart. Her husband commissioned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford White to create a memorial to mark her grave in Rock Creek Cemetery. The haunting Adams Memorial is probably the most famous of all monuments in the cemetery and is generally considered to be Saint-Gaudens' most famous sculpture. In a letter of December 5, 1886, to Clover's friend Anne Palmer Fell, Henry Adams wrote, "During the last eighteen months I have not had the good luck to attend my own funeral, but with that exception I have buried pretty nearly everything I lived for." In a letter to Henry Adams, John Hay wrote, "Is it any consolation to remember her as she was? That bright, intrepid spirit, that keen, fine intellect, that lofty scorn for 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." In a letter to a friend Henry James wrote, "poor Mrs. Adams found, the other day, the solution of the knottiness of existence." Legacy The Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston houses the photograph collection of Clover Adams and other materials. Family tree References Further reading The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865-1883. Edited by Ward Thoron, Little, Brown and Company, Boston. With illustrations, including a portrait by Marian Adams. 587 pp. 1936. Clover: The Tragic Love Story of Clover and Henry Adams and Their Brilliant Life in America's Gilded Age. By Otto Friedrich, Simon & Schuster, New York. 381 pp. 1979. The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams. By Eugenia Kaledin, Temple University Press, Philadelphia. 306 pp. 1981. The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880 - 1918. By Patricia O'Toole, Clarkson Potter, New York. 459 pp. 1990. Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life. By Natalie Dykstra, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. 336 pp. 2012. The Fifth Heart. By Dan Simmons, Little, Brown, and Company, New York. 618 pp. 2015. External links (Marian) Clover Adams, Washington DC Socialite And Photographer Lafayette Square Historic District, Washington, D.C. Strange Odyssey of Pirated Copy of Adams Memorial - With Photo of Clover Adams Homestead.com - The