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RARE "Social Reformer" Charles Eliot Norton Hand Written Letter:
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RARE! "Social Reformer" Charles Eliot Norton Hand Written Letter.

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Charles Eliot

Norton (November 16,

1827 – October 21, 1908) was an American

author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a progressive social reformer

and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most

cultivated man in the United States.  Norton

was born at Cambridge,

Massachusetts. His father, Andrews Norton

(1786–1853), was a Unitarian

theologian, and Dexter professor of sacred literature at Harvard; his

mother was Catherine Eliot, a daughter of the merchant Samuel Eliot. Charles William

Eliot, president of Harvard, was his cousin. Norton graduated from

Harvard in 1846, where he was a member of the Hasty

Pudding, and started in business with an East Indian trading firm in

Boston,

travelling to India in

1849. After a tour in Europe,

where he was influenced by John Ruskin and pre-Raphaelite painters, he returned

to Boston in 1851, and devoted himself to literature and art. He translated Dante's Vita Nuova (1860

and 1867) and the Divina

Commedia (1891-91-92, 3 vols, 1902 being the publication year of

Norton's thorough final edit). He worked tirelessly as secretary to the Loyal

Publication Society during the Civil War,

communicating with newspaper editors across the country, including the

journalist Jonathan

Baxter Harrison who became a lifelong friend. From 1864 to 1868, he edited

the highly influential magazine North American Review, in

association with James Russell Lowell. In

1861 he and Lowell helped Henry

Wadsworth Longfellow in his translation of Dante and in the starting of the

informal Dante Club.

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