Beloved Friend

…her lives of Tchaikovsky, “Beloved Friend” (1937), and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Yankee from Olympus (1944). She molds her sources into a vivid narrative, worked up into dramatic scenes that always have some warranty of documentation—the dialogue, for example, is sometimes devised from the indirect discourse of letter or diary.…

Her many other books include Beloved Friend (1937), about the relationship of Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck; Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944); John Adams and the American Revolution (1950); and Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (1966).