Samuel Francis Smith Collection 1884-1895

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

Samuel Francis Smith Collection, Accession 8828-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Samuel Francis Smith Collection, Accession 8828-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Congratulates a fellow clergyman -whom he has not personally met -on his 53rd birthday. Praises his stimulating sermons, his work as an editor [ Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine], and his writings.]

[Regards a hymn Smith wrote for the Old School Boys of Boston. Corrects dates relating to his own attendance of the Eliot Schoolas well as a printer's error in the hymn.]

[Informs Roe of his schedule. Will be happy to meet him and his friends at his home.]

[Thanks him for 3 letters, especially the one containing Grover Cleveland's acknowledgement, and for a set of beautiful orange spoons. Feels undeserving of Mr. Secor's interest in him -promises to write him 50 copies of America, will send them in installments. He also sent on request a copy of Americato Penn College, Ashatoosa, Iowa, to be hung framed on the library walls. Begs him to take care of his health and eyes, as a blind man would make a miserable engraver.]

[Has not responded to his letter sooner because of his tremendous correspondence after a testimonial. Responding to the many congratulations, etc., has been too much for his tired old eyes -mentions an assembly of 5,000 people who "shared in the excitement of the congregations." Also mentions a portrait, painted by [George De Maduro?] Peixotto, (of him ?) to be hung in Memorial Hall at Harvard. Remarks on social events. Comments on the " ConnecticutFast Day" which in Massachusettshas been replaced by "Patriots' Day."]

Acquisition information:
Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1968 March 15
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
6 items