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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00765::Samuel Francis Smith Collection)//EN" "ViU00765.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Samuel Francis Smith Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 8828-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #8828-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
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Samuel Francis Smith Collection 1884-1895 8828-a 6 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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

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Deposit [ 1963 December 17] 1968 March 15

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

 Item Listing Letters Samuel Francis Smithto the Rev. Thomas DeWitt Talmage 1884 Nov 28 ALS, 3 p.

[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.]

 Samuel Francis Smithto Jenny O. Starkey 1893 Nov 9 APCS, 1 p.

[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.]

 Samuel Francis Smithto Alfred [Seelye] Roe 1893 Dec 17 ALS, 1 p.

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

 Samuel Francis Smithto Secor 1894 May 15 ALS, 3 p.

[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.]

 Samuel Francis Smithto Secor 1895 Apr 16 ALS, 3 p.

[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."]

 Miscellaneous Leaf from a book, signed, from Poems of House and Country. n. d.