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Charles Eliot Norton Collection, Accession 8381-c, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Purchase 1962 Nov 29
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[Expresses appreciation to author of "Pine Cone Stories" with "cordial good wishes" for the success of subsequent volumes.]
[Encloses a favorite photograph of self for his daughter; speaks of his son Richard Norton 's studies "of the collections in St. Petersburg and Madrid , " and wishes he could be brought to New York ; says on the eve of the national presidential election, "public opinion seems to me to become more and more unsatisfactory . . . the conscience and the good sense of our people alike seem dull and indifferent"; mentions Judge Alton Brooks Parker favorably; mentions [prominent Democrats] Carl Schurz , and Richard Olney . ]