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Chance rummagers in the poetry stacks of Widener, in the sections from 1832-1900, will have noticed volume after volume of obscure poets or poetasters. Each is inscribed with the forgotten author's signature, most of them contain inserted notes or pencilled dedications in this manner: "To Professor Longfellow, with the poet's humble respects;" or: "Trusting that Dr. Lowell will find leisure to read these modest gleanings from the pen of--." The books are the garner of Longfellow's and Lowell's visits to England, where they became the patrons of aspiring writers, and were showered with literary products...
These and similar donations are continually enriching the stacks of Widener. The library of Charles Eliot Norton, recently bequeathed by his daughter, is a natural supplement to the Longfellow and Lowell gifts, for Dr. Norton was their close friend and had a broad acquaintance among the great Victorian men of letters. His collection numbers personal volumes from Carlyle, Ruskin, the two Americans, and dozens of lesser writers. Professor Coolidge's annual report disclosed what sums are spent on acquiring new books; but huge fortunes and endless effort would be needed even to approach completeness. For most of the minor writers...
Jacinto Benavente, author of The Passion Flower: " On arriving in New York, I told reporters that American literature is almost unknown in Spain-except for Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, and Longfellow...
...Treasure Room at Widener Library. They are gifts from the family of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The exhibition also includes an etul case of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, a locket containing a wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal of Great Britain...
...these are not enough; the demand is increasing and to satisfy it the populace must choose their idols. One palladium of morality recently elected as the greatest man of all time our friend and counsellor, Thomas Edison. Of greater Harvard interest are his runners-up; Roosevelt, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. After them in the order named, come the others of the first ten: King Alfred, Tennyson, Hoover, Dickens, Lloyd George, and Andrew D. Volstead. A notable collection truly! But where are Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon, Harding, and a few others? No matter, all deficiences are made up by the two Harvard...