Charles Eliot Norton Collection 1851

Access and use

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-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

[Mentions "Revival Literature," "Dictionary of the Bible," by Smith and Harper's "Bible Cyclopaedia."]

[Confirms the receipt of $10 for one copy of the reproduction of Turner's etchings; reports on John Ruskin's health.]

[Refers to "drawings" which should be shown at the conveniece of General di Cesnola; suggests Professor Ware's assistance; mentions Mr. Dodge.]

[Suggests the printing of 2000 copies of Reminiscencesto be published in the United States; opposes a publication in England. ]

[Thanks him for a small volume of "Volk Songs" which (?) Phillips has translated into English.]

[Asks him to serve as chairman of a Committee on Membership of the Archaeological Institute of America; suggests Thomas Wentworth Higginsonand Cardiner M. Laneas the two other members.]

[States that he does not intend, now or later, to write about James Russell Lowellfor any journal of public print; suggests that people who have been less close to Lowell should write about him; compliments Carman on his poems.]

[Discusses a paper on James Russell Lowellby Underwood which appeared in the Contemporary; says he would like to read Underwood's "Reminiscences" [ Quabbin, The Story of A Small Town]; tells of his plan to publish a selection of Lowell's letters with his own "slender narrative" to serve as a biography; mentions poem, " Carter's Goat. "]

[Thanks her for the loan of a [Lowell] letter; refers to a notice in the Nationdealing with Lowell's love-letters, claiming that they have been handed about a large circle of friends; hopes that she can shed light on the matter and is sure that Lowell himself burned the letters, not [Mabel Lowell] Burnett. ]

[Asks him to visit at a later date unless he has to have his question answered at once.]

Acquisition information:
Purchase [ 1968 Apr 8 ] 1968 Oct 11
Processing information:

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

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Physical description:
32 items