Unless otherwise indicated, illustrations are reproduced courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

 

Ellen Sturgis Hooper, Clover’s mother, as a young woman.
MARY BUNDY COLLECTION, STURGIS LIBRARY, BARNSTABLE VILLAGE, MASS.

 

Clover’s aunt, Caroline Sturgis, younger sister of Ellen Sturgis Hooper.
MARY BUNDY COLLECTION, STURGIS LIBRARY, BARNSTABLE VILLAGE, MASS.

 

Dr. Robert W. Hooper, Clover’s father.
SWANN FAMILY COLLECTION

 

Clover’s older brother and sister, Ned and Ellen Hooper.
SWANN FAMILY COLLECTION

 

Clover at two or three. Her mother called her “Clovy” or “my blessed Clover.”

 

Clover at eight or nine, near the time of her Aunt Susan’s suicide.

 

Tintype of Clover at ease on her horse, taken in October 1869 at the Hooper summer home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. She had just turned twenty-six.

 

Clover added this sketch to a letter to her father, depicting the newlyweds’ seasickness aboard the steamship Siberia, on their ocean crossing to England in July 1872.

 

Henry in the stateroom of the Isis, the boat he and Clover leased for their honeymoon travels on the Nile in 1872. Clover may have taken the photograph.

 

Clover and Henry at the Chapter House at Wenlock Priory, July 24, 1873. Left to right: Henry, Lady Eleanor Sophia Cunliffe, Charles Milnes Gaskell, Clover, Lord Pollington, Lady Pollington, Sir Robert Cunliffe. Clover’s right eye is unaccountably scratched out in the photograph.

 

Undated tintype of Clover holding a Skye terrier that might be Possum, the dog she and Henry acquired in 1881.

 

Portrait of Anne Palmer painted by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer in 1879, the year Anne and Clover became friends.
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

 

Frances Benjamin Johnston’s photograph of Elizabeth Cameron, “a dangerously fascinating woman,” taken several years after Clover’s death.
FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

 

Clover wrote to Dr. Hooper on Sundays, usually in the morning. Sometimes she signed her name Clover, but most often M.A. (Marian Adams). He kept every letter she wrote, noting the date on the envelope.

 

Untitled bronze statue, known as “Grief,” by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1891), marking the graves of Clover and Henry in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
PHOTOGRAPH BY THE AUTHOR