Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1827-11-16 - 1908-10-21
Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American author, social critic, and professor of art.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
George Warren Arms collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 170
Overview:
The George Warren Arms collection consists of letters, manuscripts and subject files documenting research on 19th and early 20th century American authors.Series I, Correspondence, is organized into two subseries for General and Third-Party Correspondence. General Correspondence consists of correspondence between Arms and writers, scholars, booksellers, autograph dealers and others. The Third-Party Correspondence consists of letters by 19th and early 20th century American authors collected...
Dates:
1848-1988
Samuel Bowles papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 94
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, legal documents, petitions, pamphlets, and printed material of Samuel Bowles, journalist and political activist. As editor of the influential Springfield Republican, Bowles was a prominent national voice on many public issues during the mid-nineteenth century and included in the papers is correspondence from a number of national political and business figures.
Dates:
1852-1893
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel Bowles papers
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 November
Item — Box: 1, Folder: H.48
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
"All's quite right. The Scott's house goes to a noble fellow [Charles Eliot Norton] to whom it will be very useful & Corinth is yours if you like to have it when I like to give it to you! which won't be for some time yet. I enjoy your picture so much." [Date provided by Surtees: November 1856]
Dates:
1856 November
Letter : Ashfield, Massachusetts, to Mr. Goodman, 1897 June 22
Part of Collection — Box: 97, Folder: 6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates:
1897 June 22
Letter : Cambridge, to Mr.Van Brunt, 1880 Jan 26
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS asking Van Brunt to write a sketch about the life and work of recently deceased [Eugéne-Emmanuel] Viollet-le-Duc for the annual report of the Council of the American Academy, and soliciting suggestions for a suitable replacement to fill the vacancy in the Academy.
Dates:
1880 Jan 26
Letter : Cambridge, to [Winthrop] Wetherbee, 1887 May 3
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS declining an invitation to the twenty first annual dinner of the [Harvard] Advocate.
Dates:
1887 May 3
Letter : Cambridge, to [Winthrop] Wetherbee, 19 Matthews Hall, Cambridge, 1886 Oct 27
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS, with envelope, requesting tickets for Norton, Dr. Creighton, and George William Curtis to the Harvard Undergraduate Literary Exercises.
Dates:
1886 Oct 27
Letter : Shady Hill, Cambridge, to Henry Richardson Plimpton, 2nd, 1891 Nov 29
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS thanking Plimpton for photographs taken of Norton's home in Ashfield.
Dates:
1891 Nov 29
Letter : Shady Hill, to President [Charles William] Eliot, 1896 Mar 16
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS praising Eliot's eulogy for [Martin] Brimmer.
Dates:
1896 Mar 16
Letters, 1881-99
Part of Collection — Box: 4, Folder: GROUP 52, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS to Mr. Gilder, Dec 23, 1891; and four ANS to Arthur Stedman, George C. Wright, Edgar R. Champlin, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an unidentified recipient, 1881-99.
Dates:
1881-99
Note : Cambridge, Mass., to John Jay, 1897 Oct 23
Part of Collection — Box: 39, Folder: GROUP 956, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TNS declining an invitation to lecture before the Yale Debating Union.
Dates:
1897 Oct 23
Salisbury family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 429
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, genealogical notes, and other papers, principally of Edward Elbridge Salisbury, philologist, orientalist, and genealogist. Included are materials on various branches of Salisbury's family gathered in his genealogical research. Also included are papers and correspondence of Josiah Salisbury (1781-1826), Abigail Breese Salisbury (1780-1866), and business papers of Samuel Salisbury (1739-1818) and Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829). In addition there are...
Dates:
1753-1904
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Salisbury family papers
Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1163
Overview:
Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.
Dates:
1843-1907
John Ferguson Weir papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 550
Overview:
Correspondence, addresses and writings, papers relating to the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other papers of John F. Weir, artist, painter and first director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, serving from 1869-1913. Correspondents include many persons prominent in the art world between 1870 and 1920. There is also much material on the origins and development of art education in this country and at Yale.
Dates:
1838-1957, bulk 1861-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Ferguson Weir papers
William Dwight Whitney family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 555
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of...
Dates:
1778-1951, bulk 1814-1912