In this last location Norman was interviewed by Justo Sierra O'Reilly who, much later, characterized him in his newspaper, The Yucatán Register(vol 1, page 342), in the following way: "Dressed in linen pants and jacket, putting on steel framed glasses and somewhat scrawny and sickly, as he is, he flew on wings of his avarice to the coasts of Yucatan...he returned to New York and published a book, Rambles in Yucatán which is the most foolish and ridiculous book we have read lately...his estimates were not unsuccessful though as the newly coined traveler won his 8 to 10,000 dollars, mocking the credulity of his readers.
"[1]In effect, after three months of travel through the Yucatán Peninsula Norman returned to New York where he edited and published his book in 1843.
His writings however were not particularly insightful and his drawings of mediocre quality, both suffering from comparison to the much better documentation by John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood.
From this last trip he brought to the United States a collection of archaeological pieces from Huasteca which were eventually donated to the Brooklyn Museum.
The archeologist Herbert J. Spinden, in his monograph Huastec Sculpture and the Cult of Apotheosis, makes reference to the pieces and includes biographical dates of Norman.