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X. Charles Eliot Norton
It is a tradition in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Howells used to exult, on arriving from his Western birthplace, in having at length met for the first time, in Charles Eliot Norton, the only man he had eveCharles Eliot Norton, the only man he had ever seen who had been cultivated up to the highest point of which he was capable.
To this the verdict of all Cambridge readily assented.
What the neighbors could not at that time foresee was that the man thus praised would ever live to be an octogena
I see no fault committed which I have not committed myself.
This milder and more genial spirit increased constantly as Norton grew older, until it served at last only to make his high-bred nature more attractive.
He was born in Cambridge, Novem t volume of Morley's essays.
But I began meaning only to thank you for your pleasant note and to send a cheer to you from my slower craft as your gallant three-master goes by it with all sails set . ...
Always cordially yours, C. E. Norton.