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      <persname>Smith, Percy Almerin</persname>
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<p>21 manuscript diaries, journals, sermons, essays, poetry, and autobiographies of Percy Almerin Smith, an Illinois-born educator and missionary who served in Japan for the majority of his life before returning to the United States shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.</p>  </scopecontent>
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