Charles Eliot Norton Collection 1851

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Charles Eliot Norton Collection, Accession 8381, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Charles Eliot Norton Collection, Accession 8381, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Includes author's corrections and addition.] (Bound volume also contains essay "Humor, wit, and fun" and engraving and print of Charles Eliot Norton)

[Includes autograph corrections by Charles Eliot Norton. ]

[Regards Longfellow and other friends.]

[Thanks correspondent for information pertaining to his Eliotancestors; says a witch jury-man is of special interest; wishes to borrow the Eliot familyprinted genealogy.]

[Refers to a letter by the correspondent which appeared in The North American Review; mentions that [George] Bancroftfled the country on the mere report of the letter's appearance.]

[Informs correspondent that he was chosen to be a member of the Saturday Club. ]

[Expresses thanks for a copy of advance sheets of a new edition of Jones Very's poems; praises the spiritual intensity and sincerity of the poems and is glad that they are published.]

[Discusses the oldest known portrait of Dante; he states that the portrait in the Bargelloin Florencewas not by Giottobut by one of his pupils.]

[Thanks him for sending him an article about letters by Goethethat appeared in the Athenaeum. ]

[Refers to John Nortonand permits Stedman to make use of his own writings.]

[Refuses a request to write a critical opinion on the work of Tolstoy.]

[Replies after having received an article by him in defense of the works of Williams Dean Howells; interprets "realists" and "actualists" among writers, stating that "actualists" are seldom artists of the highest rank and gives examples of both.]

[Refers to a letter by James Russell Lowellwhich, to his great satisfaction, is in the hands of Gilder for later publication; reports on Lowell's health.]

[Informs him that he might find the passages from the Biblereferred to in the Divine Comedyin an essay " Dante e la Bibbia" by Niccolo Tommaseo. ]

[Discusses publication of the James Russell Lowellpapers in the Century. ]

[Sends the requested autograph of his father, Andrews Norton. ]

[Letter of recommendation regarding J. H. Jones, a student at Harvard, who would like to obtain a position as a reporter at the [Boston ?] Heraldto report on the proceedings and papers of The Schools of Social Ethics; mentions Crawford Howell Toy. ]

[Gives suggestions on how to improve the appearance of the book, Literary and Social Essays, by George William Curtis, which is about to be printed; points out number of misprints in the last volume of From the Easy Chairand makes corrections.]

[Thanks him for sending a 30 year old notices from the Atlantic Monthlyof the translation of Vita Nuovaby Norton.]

[Complies with request for titles of books on the art of painting as practiced by the Egyptians.]

[Recalls a visit to Bryn Mawrwhere he enjoyed a friendly reception by Peckham and his student daughter, who will be coming to Cambridge. ]

[Includes autograph postscript acknowledging letter and cheque for the Memorial Library in memory of Mr. Child; voices his concern about future national politics; says he has noticed Peckham's name on the list of visiting committees to Harvard. ]

[Expresses his concern and anxiety about the nation.]

[Gives the requested title of a book containing all of Dante's works: Tutte le Opere di Dante Alighieriby Dr. Edward Moore; mentions the cancellations of one of his readings.]

[Gives a short description of the life of Charles C. Burleigh, an abolitionist and lawyer; comments on Burleigh's friendship with fellow abolitionist James Russell Lowell; mentions William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The story of his life told by his children. ]

[Mentions Ralph Waldo Emersonby Sanborn for the "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans" and The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, which he plans to reissue.]

[Includes autograph postscript thanking him for the third series of verse from the Harvard Advocate; expresses hope that in this generation there may be one poet of creative originality, etc.]

[Thanks him for sending his memorial pamphlet on R. R. Sinclair; points out the merits of Sinclair.]

[In bound volume with TMs of "Humor and Wit."]

[In bound volume with TMs of "Humor and Wit."]

Acquisition information:
Deposit [ 1963 Dec 17 ] [ 1966 Sep 12 ]
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

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