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Charles B. Norton and S. Hastings Grant Papers (Digital Surrogates)

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Digital copies of the Papers of Charles B. Norton (1825-91), editor of Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, and S. Hastings Grant (1828- 1910), librarian of the Mercantile Library Association of New York, contains correspondence and statistical forms concerning periodical subscriptions, gifts of the Literary Register, library statistics and information, and arrangements for and proceedings of the Librarians' Convention of September 1853, includes correspondence with Charles C. Jewett (Smithsonian), Daniel C. Gilman (Yale), Reuben A. Guild (Brown), William S. Rhees (Smithsonian), James Green (Baltimore Mercantile Library Association), John W. Dean (Boston), Edward Capen (Boston Public Library ), Samuel Haven (American Antiquarian Association), John Tappan (University of Michigan Library), William P. Curtis (Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis), Philip Forbes and W.S. Butler (New York Society Library), R. H. Stephenson (Cincinnati Mercantile Library Association), Lloyd P. Smith (Library Company of Philadelphia), and E.C. Arnold (Young Men's Association, Milwaukee).

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