Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
Dates
- Existence: 1827-11-16 - 1908-10-21
Biography
Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American author, social critic, and professor of art.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
George Warren Arms collection
Samuel Bowles papers
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.
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 November
"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]
Letter : Ashfield, Massachusetts, to Mr. Goodman, 1897 June 22
Letter : Cambridge, to Mr.Van Brunt, 1880 Jan 26
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.
Letter : Cambridge, to [Winthrop] Wetherbee, 1887 May 3
ALS declining an invitation to the twenty first annual dinner of the [Harvard] Advocate.
Letter : Cambridge, to [Winthrop] Wetherbee, 19 Matthews Hall, Cambridge, 1886 Oct 27
ALS, with envelope, requesting tickets for Norton, Dr. Creighton, and George William Curtis to the Harvard Undergraduate Literary Exercises.
Letter : Shady Hill, Cambridge, to Henry Richardson Plimpton, 2nd, 1891 Nov 29
ALS thanking Plimpton for photographs taken of Norton's home in Ashfield.
Letter : Shady Hill, to President [Charles William] Eliot, 1896 Mar 16
ALS praising Eliot's eulogy for [Martin] Brimmer.
Letters, 1881-99
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.
Note : Cambridge, Mass., to John Jay, 1897 Oct 23
TNS declining an invitation to lecture before the Yale Debating Union.
Salisbury family papers
Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers
Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.
John Ferguson Weir papers
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.
William Dwight Whitney family papers
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