Correspondence : with William Coolidge Lane, 1905-1906.

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Correspondence : with William Coolidge Lane, 1905-1906.

Letters concern the purchase of Norton's library by donors who would give it to the Harvard College Library, and the establishment of the Charles Eliot Norton fund; the clipping concerns a memorial gift book given to Norton by his former students.

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