Charles Eliot Norton letter to Henry Phillips, 1881 Feb. 19.

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Charles Eliot Norton letter to Henry Phillips, 1881 Feb. 19.

Norton writes to Henry Phillips, Jr., 19 Feb. 1881, thanking him for sending a copy of his translation of Adelbert von Chamisso's Faust, and complimenting the book and Phillips' efforts in translation.

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Chamisso, Adelbert ˜vonœ 1781-1838

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Phillips, Henry, 1838-1895

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Biographical note: Henry Phillips was an author, philologist, and numismatist. He was born in Philadelphia in 1838 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1859. Although he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1859, Phillips devoted most of his life to researches and writings in the fields of philology, numismatics, and folklore. His contributions to the field of Numismatics were "History of American Colonial Paper Currency" (1865) and "History of America...