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Charles Eliot Norton papers

Title: Charles Eliot Norton papers

This archive contains letters addressed to Charles Eliot Norton from about 1845 to1908. Norton was a Harvard graduate (A.B. 1846) and professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard from 1874 to 1898, with a special interest in the study and translation of Dante. Many of the letters in this collection deal with art and with Dante. In addition he knew a great many prominent figures in both England and the United States, especially those in the political field and the literary and artistics fields. His correspondence with these people often touches upon their public and their private lives. From 1863 to 1868 Norton was joint editor with his friend James Russell Lowell of the North American review. The letters addressed to him as editor are marked in this index by a star (*) and the folders containing them are stamped with a red N.A.R.(=North American Review). In 1898 Norton's opposition to the Spanish-American war led Senator George F. Hoar to criticize him. A list of some of the letters Norton received commenting on this controversy is at the end of this index. Referenced throughout the finding aid is the Excavations at Delphi (scrapbook folder) with a folder designation, such as f.1, f.2, and so on. All folders can be found at item number 5308.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00083/catalog View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, 1820-1877.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, 1820-1877.

Letters to American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson from friends and colleagues.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00343/catalog View

Clapp, William Warland, Jr., 1826-1891. Correspondence, 1790-1891 (bulk 1840-1891)

Title: William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk)

Letters to American journalist and author William Warland Clapp Jr. from his friends, colleagues, and family. Also includes some other papers.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (4.5 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01878/catalog View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Letters from colleagues and friends to American Transcendentalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00123/catalog View

Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Title: Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Letters and manuscripts of the Barrows family of New York.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00494/catalog View

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Ralph Waldo Emerson collection, 1793-1937.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson collection, 1793-1937.

The Emerson collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and artwork documenting the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Series I, Owen Franklin Aldis Gift, is organized into two subseries: Correspondence and Writings. The correspondence consists of letters from Emerson to others, including author and clergyman William Rounseville Alger, Anne C. Botta, publisher James Thomas Fields, and William James Linton. There are three holograph leaves of the manuscript Parnassus. Series II, Kenneth W. Cameron Gifts, is organized into two subseries: Correspondence and Writings. Correspondence contains several outgoing letters, including three letters to Irish poet William Allingham, and one third party letter from Emerson's father William to his sister Rebecca. Writings contains holograph notes for a lecture on Emerson by Henry Septimus Sutton. Series III, Mrs. Richard Gimbel Gift, is organized into two subseries: Corespondence and Writings. The Gimbel gift contains a single letter from Emerson to Edward Cornelius Towne and holograph manuscripts of five poems. Series IV, Eliza Brush Pirsson Gift, is organized in two subseries: Correspondence and Other Material. The Pirsson gift includes third party correspondence relating to Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, drafts of a manuscript by Pirsson, and a daguerreotype of Emerson. There are letters between Eliza Brush Pirsson, Louis Valentine Pirsson, and Wilbur L. Cross, and one letter from Carlyle to Joseph Neuberg. Series V, Material from Other Sources, is organized into three subseries: Correspondence, Artwork, and Other Papers. Correspondence includes letters from Emerson to Elliot C. Cowdin and Alexander Milton Ross. There are third party letters from Emerson's daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson, and from Peter Henry Emerson. Other letters to Charles Ganz, from The British Journal of Photography and the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, concern the death of Peter Henry Emerson. Artwork contains photographs of Emerson and his home in Concord, Massachusetts, and representations of Emerson in engravings, a lithograph, a photogravure, and two bronze plaques by Victor David Brenner.

ArchivalResource: 1.33 linear ft. (2 boxes) + 1 broadside folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702173148 View