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 CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated February 6, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-02-06
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated January 8, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-01-08
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated June 3, 1866.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1866-06-03
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated June 6, 1881.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1881-06-6
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated March 20, 1867.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1867-03-20
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated March 26, 1861.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1861-03-26
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated May 10, 1864.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1864-05-10
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated May 25, 1871.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1871-05-25
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated May 31, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-05-31
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated May 9, 1863.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1863-05-09
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated November 15, 1871.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1871-11-15
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated November 9, 1861.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1861-11-09
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated October 24, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-10-24
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from CHARLES ELIOT NORTON to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated September 6, 1870.
Creator: Norton, Charles Eliot
Date: 1870-09-06
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE OZIAS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated June 17, 1854.
Creator: Marsh, George Ozias
Date: 1854-06-17
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE OZIAS MARSH to HIRAM POWERS, dated November 23 1857.
Creator: Marsh, George Ozias
Date: 1857-11-23
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH and CHARLES PAINE to HIRAM POWERS, dated June 12 1847.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882; Paine, Charles
Date: 1847-06-12
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated April 18, 1864.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1864-04-18
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated April 22, 1867.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1867-04-22
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated August 24, 1870.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1870-08-24
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated December 24, 1866.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1866-12-24
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated December 5, 1869.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1869-12-05
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated February 9, 1870.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1870-02-09
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated January 16, 1865.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1865-01-16
Resource type: letter
Title: Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, dated January 22, 1864.
Creator: Marsh, George Perkins, 1801-1882
Date: 1864-01-22
Resource type: letter
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