Charles eliot norton letters

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Permanent link to this item Copy permanent link. Link to this page Copy permanent link. Version UTC About the version. Search full-text index. Charles Eliot Norton , son of Andrews Norton , was a noted author, translator, social critic and liberal activist. He was appointed Professor of the History of Art at Harvard in ; this chair was created for him and he held it for 23 years until retirement. The Archaeological Institute of America chose him as its first president, and he was described as the foremost American proponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures are given annually by distinguished professors at Harvard, where Norton bequeathed the more valuable portion of his library. Search review text. No one's reviewed this book yet. Be the first. And Mrs. Norton had been but a short time on English soil when they went by invitation to stay with D This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.

Norton had been but a short time on English soil when they went by invitation to stay with Dickens at Gad's Hill -- "the identical spot," as Dickens, in a letter to Lady John Russell, says about the house, "where Falstaff ran away. To Mrs. My Dearest Mother, -- I wish you were here with us, to share in the pleasures of our visit to this delightful home, -- and I wish I had leisure to write to you at real length of my various interesting experiences during the days since I left you.

I was delighted to find Ruskin looking well -- quite unchanged since we saw him, except perhaps for some lines of age, and in a perfectly sane and sweet condition of mind. No expressions could have been more full of affection than those he lavished upon me, and I had really a very happy time with him.

He says he is much better this summer than for a long time before -- and he is cheerful and hard at work. The house is wonderfully full of most wonderful and beautiful things.

It is a treasure house of Turners. But all this must be left for talk when we meet. After rather too fatiguing a morning in London, Sue and I met Dickens at the train at a little Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Other Editions 6. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia.