G. P. Marsh - C. E. Norton Correspondence
Collection Overview
The friendship between Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), the American scholar and professor of art history at Harvard, and George Perkins Marsh began in the winter of 1860-61, while Marsh was lecturing at the Lowell Institute in Boston. When Marsh was appointed Minister to Italy, he wanted Norton, who had spent some time in Italy, appointed secretary of Legation, but the choice was not Marsh's to make.
During the early period of the correspondence, Norton co-edited the North American Review(1864-1868) and helped E.L. Godkin to found the Nation (1865). Norton was also a committed abolitionist and the conduct of the Civil War figures prominently in many of the letters. In the summer of 1868 Norton returned to Europe with his family and visited the Marshes. Marsh helped Norton obtain material for Norton's prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (1891-92).
The correspondence continued intermittedly until Marsh's death in 1882. At that time Caroline Crane Marsh asked Norton to return her husband's letters for a projected biography. In consequence, most of the correspondence is now in the Marsh Collection at the University of Vermont; the remainder is part of the Norton Papers at the Houghton Library at Harvard University.
Parent Collections
George Perkin Marsh Online Research Center
Published: November 26, 2008, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
Rights: http://cdi.uvm.edu/about/rights
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Creator(s)
- Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882 [66]
- Norton, Charles Eliot [38]
- Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873 [16]
- Marsh, George Ozias [2]
- Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901 [1]
- Paine, Charles [1]
Recipient(s)
- Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882 [46]
- Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873 [44]
- Norton, Charles Eliot [25]
- Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901 [8]
- Pearce, James Alfred [1]
Format(s)
- text [123]
Genre(s)
- letter [123]
Topic(s)
- Marsh, George Perkins1801-1882 [86]
- Powers, Hiram1805-1873 [53]
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908 [35]
- Rambaldi, Benvenuto da Imola, d. 1390 [7]
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Translations into English [6]
- Paur, Theodor, 1815-1892 [2]
- United States--Politics and government--Civil War, 1861-1865 [2]
- American literature--19th cenutry--History and criticism [1]
- American--Travel--Greece--19th century [1]
- American--Travel--Italy--19th century [1]
- Americans--Travel--Middle East--19th century [1]
- Arborea (Italy)--History [1]
- Arnolfo, -di Cambio- 13th century [1]
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 [1]
- Middle East--Description and travel [1]
- Morte d'Arthur [1]
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908--Political and social views [1]
- Pearce, James Alfred, 1804-1862 [1]
- The North American Review and miscellaneous journal (Boston), 1815- [1]
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--History [1]
- United States Sanitary Commission [1]
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 [1]
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Foreign public opinion [1]
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Title: Letter from CAROLINE CRANE MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated April 13, 1863.
Creator: Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901
Date: 1863-04-13
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated August 5, 1882.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1882-08-05
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated January 2, 1882.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1882-01-02
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated July 27, 1881.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1881-07-27
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated March 13, 1882.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1882-03-13
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated May 14, 1882.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1882-05-14
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated September 14, 1881.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1881-09-14
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated September 2, 1881.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1881-09-02
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated September 28, 1884.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1884-09-28
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to CAROLINE CRANE MARSH, dated September 9, 1884.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1884-09-09
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated 5th April, 1861.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1861-04-05
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated April 19, 1864.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1864-04-19
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated April 27, 1862.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1862-04-27
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 13, 1861.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1861-08-13
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 21, 1865.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1865-08-21
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 23, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-08-23
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 25, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-08-25
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated December 1, 1869.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1869-12-01
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated December 11, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-12-11
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated December 29, 1864.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1864-12-29
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated December 4, 1869.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1869-12-04
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated December 5, 1869.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1869-12-05
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated February 12, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-02-12
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated February 2, 1871.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1871-02-02
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated February 22, 1864.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1864-02-22
Resource type: letter
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