Caroline Sheridan Norton collection
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters and writings by or about Caroline Sheridan Norton. The letters are to recipients such as Robert Browning, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Mrs. Catherine Gore, Nathaniel Ogle, Lady Anna Stirling Maxwell, and Frances Trollope, as well as a letter to William Francis Cowper-Temple concerning the death of his uncle, Lord Melbourne. Writings include several autograph poems, and the autograph manuscript of "Love in the World," a novel written when Norton was a young girl.
Accompanying the collection is a typescript of Bertha Coolidge Slade's undated essay "Some Unrecorded Letters of Caroline Norton in the Altschul Collection of the Yale University Library."
Dates
- 1830-1876
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Caroline Sheridan Norton Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Ongoing collection of documents acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Type of accession (gift or purchase) and date of acquisition is noted in the box-and-folder list. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I. Frank Altschul Gift, 1839-1876. II. Bertha Coolidge Slade Gift, 1840-1865. III. Other Papers, 1830-1874.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection contains letters and writings by or about Caroline Sheridan Norton. The letters are to recipients such as Robert Browning, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Mrs. Catherine Gore, Nathaniel Ogle, Lady Anna Stirling Maxwell, and Frances Trollope, as well as a letter to William Francis Cowper-Temple concerning the death of his uncle, Lord Melbourne. Writings include several autograph poems, and the autograph manuscript of "Love in the World," a novel written when Norton was a young girl.
Caroline Sheridan Norton, 1808-1877
Caroline Sheridan Norton was a British feminist, social reformer, and author.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Caroline Sheridan Norton, which the library has chosen to group and list as an artificial collection. The finding aid was produced from previously existing cards in the Manuscripts Catalog, or from another inventory. All pertinent bibliographical information has been retained. If the collection also contains unlisted or unsorted material, it has been noted in the box-and-folder list. This finding aid will be updated periodically to account for new materials that may be added to the collection. The date of the most recent update is noted on the title page.
Material in this collection was reclassed from MS Vault Sheridan in 1997.
- Authors -- Great Britain -- 19th century
- Authors, English -- Archives
- British literature -- 19th century
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Cholmondeley-Pennell, H. (Henry), 1837-1915
- Gore, Catherine Grace Frances, 1799-1861
- Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 1779-1848
- Mount-Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888
- Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
- Ogle, Nathaniel
- Stirling Maxwell, Anna, -1874
- Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780-1863
- Title
- Guide to the Caroline Sheridan Norton Collection
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff
- Date
- July 1997
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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