Henry Preserved Smith Papers, 1864-1925

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID	4492493 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Smith, Henry Preserved, 1847-1927
Title	Henry Preserved Smith Papers, 1864-1925
Physical Description	9 boxes (9 boxes 4.25 linear feet)
Language(s)	English .
Additional Description	http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/burke/fa/uts/ldpd_4492493.pdf
Access	The collection is unrestricted to readers. The scrapbooks and notes in this collection are in a fragile condition, and necessitate great care in handling and potential reproduction restrictions to be determined at the discretion of archives staff.

Description

Summary

Included are diary, 1864-1866; nine notebooks on Old Testament lectures; notes on "History of Religion;" and scrapbooks containing articles by himself, material relating to the earliest Hebrew literature, and dealing with his own and Charles A. Brigg's trial, and the judicial case of the Presbyterian Church against Smith.

General Note

Part of Union Theological Seminary Collection

In Archives.

Using the Collection

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Restrictions on Access

The collection is unrestricted to readers. The scrapbooks and notes in this collection are in a fragile condition, and necessitate great care in handling and potential reproduction restrictions to be determined at the discretion of archives staff.

Preferred Citation

Item description, UTS1: Henry Preserved Smith Papers, series #, box #, and folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Processing Information

Diary, notebooks, scrapbooks Cataloged Lynn A. Grove 07/13/88.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form

Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
Diaries	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

Subject

Heading	"CUL Archives:" "Portal"	"CUL Collections:" "CLIO"	"Nat'l / Int'l Archives:" "ArchivedGRID"
Briggs, Charles A (Charles Augustus), 1841-1913	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Clergy	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
College teachers	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Hebrew literature -- History	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- : Discipline	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Smith, Henry Preserved, 1847-1927 -- : Archives	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID
Trials (Heresy) -- History -- Sources	Portal	CLIO	ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927); Presbyterian minister in Ohio and New York; scholar with specializations in Hebrew and Cognate Languages, historical and critical interpretations of the Bible; graduate studies at Lane Theological Seminary, Universities of Leipzig and Berlin; tried for heresy by Presbyterian Church, 1892-1894; Professor of Church history and Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages at Union Theological Seminary, 1917-1925.