Letters to the Norton family, 1844-1889.

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Letters to the Norton family, 1844-1889.

Letters of a personal and social nature to Jane, Grace and Sarah Norton, and Sara and Theodora Sedgwick, as well as a few poems by Lowell.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7796307

Houghton Library

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Norton, Jane, 1824-1877.

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Norton family.

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Norton, Grace, 1834-1926

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Grace Norton (1834-1926) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Andrew Norton and Catherine Eliot Norton, and the sister of American author and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton. She was privately educated in Cambridge, and developed a great love for the literature of France, especially that of the French essayist, Montaigne. Norton became a Montaigne expert, translating, writing, and lecturing on his works, as well as those of other French authors. Many of her articles appe...

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Norton, Sara, 1864-

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Sara Norton was the daughter of Charles Eliot Norton, editor, literary scholar, and professor of Fine Arts at Harvard. She later edited a published edition of her father's letters. From the description of Condolences on the death of Charles Eliot Norton, 1908-1909. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390094 From the guide to the Condolences on the death of Charles Eliot Norton, 1908-1909., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Sedgwick, Theodora.

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Sedgwick, Sarah Cabot, approximately 1906-

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