Richard Norton memorial collection

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Richard Norton memorial collection

1914-1923

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Correspondence, personnel and business records, reports, photographs, clippings and other printed material, etc. relating to the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps and the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. Also includes: personal correspondence of Eliot Norton, Richard Norton, and the Misses Norton; diaries of Richard Norton, scrapbooks, check book, record book, index to personnel records, and other material. There are also Henry James letters and other documents concerning James' interest in the ambulance corps. For a time, James served as the chairman of the corps in France.

12 cartons (15 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7799155

Houghton Library

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American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps

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Norton, Richard, 1872-1918

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Richard Norton (b. February 9, 1872, Dresden, Germany-d. August 2, 1918, Paris, France), archaeologist and art scholar, was the organizer and head of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, also known as the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, which served on the front in France in World War I from 1914 until it was taken over by the American Army in 1917. He was the son of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard and Susan Sedgewick Norton. He graduated from Harvard in 1892, and was director ...

Norton, Eliot, 1863-1932.

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James, Henry, 1843-1916

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James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic and dramatist. From the description of Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612731792 From the guide to the Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James was born in New York, NY, in 1843. During his lifetime, he was a literary and art critic (writing for Natio...

Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps.

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