Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Abstract: 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...

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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.

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"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]

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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.

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ALS declining an invitation to the twenty first annual dinner of the [Harvard] Advocate.

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ALS, with envelope, requesting tickets for Norton, Dr. Creighton, and George William Curtis to the Harvard Undergraduate Literary Exercises.

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ALS thanking Plimpton for photographs taken of Norton's home in Ashfield.

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ALS praising Eliot's eulogy for [Martin] Brimmer.

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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.

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TNS declining an invitation to lecture before the Yale Debating Union.

Abstract: 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...

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Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.

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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.

Abstract: 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...