Hey.
That photo of Holmes was chosen by this half clad savage from Penna. on accounta it was taken in 1884, the year of the former's "touched with fire" speech. After the latter chose the photo he noticed the name of the photog. Marion Hooper Adams, known universally as Clover Adams.
Clover married Henry B. Adams of the Adams family. Clover committed suicide the year after she took that photograph of Holmes, at age 42. It was an event that shocked and devastated her society and her husband, who thereafter destroyed all the letters between them, destruction of letters being the thing one must do if one is an Adams or a Holmes apparently. Henry, however, memorialized Clover for all time. He commissioned Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the renowned sculptors of the age, who created a memorial sculpture for the ages for Clover's grave, "Grief:"
It is about as moving a thing as this savage has ever seen. Don't know if he could ever see it in person, it would leave him so shaken. Others feel similarly and some are drawn to it in their own times of grief. Eleanor Roosevelt visited it repeatedly after discovery of the love letters between her secretary, Lucy Mercer, and her husband Franklin. FDR promised to break off the relationship on pain of Eleanor filing for divorce which would have ruined him. He did, or so Eleanor thought, but when he died he was with Lucy.
