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Charles Eliot Norton Collection, Accession 8381, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [ 1963 Dec 17 ] [ 1966 Sep 12 ]
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[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 Eliot ancestors; says a witch jury-man is of special interest; wishes to borrow the Eliot family printed genealogy.]
[Refers to a letter by the correspondent which appeared in The North American Review ; mentions that [George] Bancroft fled 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 Bargello in Florence was not by Giotto but by one of his pupils.]
[Thanks him for sending him an article about letters by Goethe that appeared in the Athenaeum . ]
[Refers to John Norton and 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 Lowell which, 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 Bible referred to in the Divine Comedy in an essay " Dante e la Bibbia " by Niccolo Tommaseo . ]
[Discusses publication of the James Russell Lowell papers 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 ?] Herald to 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 Chair and makes corrections.]
[Thanks him for sending a 30 year old notices from the Atlantic Monthly of the translation of Vita Nuova by Norton.]
[Complies with request for titles of books on the art of painting as practiced by the Egyptians.]
[Recalls a visit to Bryn Mawr where 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 Alighieri by 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 Emerson by 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.]