Henry Preserved Smith papers, 1864 -- 1925

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Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1881 -- 1925

This series is open for research.

2.25 linear feet; 2.25 linear feet; 5 boxes

This series contains scrapbooks as they were assembled by Smith to document his heresy trial, as well as the contemporaneous trial of Charles Augustus Briggs. The first five volumes of the collection include scrapbooks of clippings, notes and pasted-in correspondence detailing the trial and its coverage in periodicals and newspapers at the time, followed by a scrapbook of articles dated 1881 to 1900, and finally three scrapbooks on Hebrew literature.

This series is arranged by scrapbook topic and then chronologically.



Box 1.1 Heresy Trial Volume 1-2, including Briggs Controversy Supplement, 1891 -- 1893



Box 1.2 Heresy Trial Volume 3-4, 1892 -- 1894



Box 1.3 Heresy Trial Volume 5, 1894 -- 1904



Box 1.4 Folder 1 Opuscula Smithii – Tomus I,, 1881 -- 1900


Box 1.4 Folder 2-3 Notes on Hebrew Literature vols. 1 and 2 [after Cornill, 100 B.C. --], circa 1890 -- 1899



Box 1.5 Folder 1 Notes on Hebrew Literature vol. 3, circa 1890 -- 1899


Box 1.5 Folder 2 Supplementary Letters and Clippings, 1904 -- 1925

Series 2: Writings and notes, 1864 -- 1924

This series is open for research.

2 linear feet; 2 linear feet; 4 boxes

This series contains nine of Smith's notebooks, correspondence, speeches, trial materials, lecture notes, and other materials maintained by Smith during his work as a professor and librarian. The first box consists of speeches delivered in the proceedings of Smith's heresy trial, while the latter three boxes contain lecture notes and course plans. While the institutional affiliation of these courses is unavailable in the materials themselves, the subject matter of these materials suggest they span Smith's entire teaching career at Amherst, Meadville, and Union Theological Seminary.

This series is arranged roughly by material type.



Box 2.1 Folder 1 Presbyterian Church Against H.P.S. Speeches: Correspondence, 1916 -- 1919


Box 2.1 Folder 2 Stenographic Reports of speeches, 1893-10-13


Box 2.1 Folder 3 Dr. James (Presbyterian Church of USA – Ohio Synod), 1893


Box 2.1 Folder 4 Presbytery of Cincinnati Against HPS, 1891 -- 1892


Box 2.1 Folder 5 Speech by HPS and Appeal,, 1893


Box 2.1 Folder 6 Charges and Rulings – Presbytery of Cincinnati v. H.P. Smith, 1891 -- 1892


Box 2.1 Folder 7 The Apologetic Interpretation of Scripture in Islam and in Christianity and An Oriental Modernist, 1920 -- 1924



Box 2.2 Folder 1 Private Journal, 1864


Box 2.2 Folder 2 Biblical Literature Lectures, 1898


Box 2.2 Folder 3 Notebook, 1910 -- 1912


Box 2.2 Folder 4 Comparative Religion Notebook (Second Semester), 1912


Box 2.2 Folder 5 Advanced Course – English Bible, circa 1910 -- 1919


Box 2.2 Folder 6-7 Old Testament Notebooks 1-4, circa 1910 -- 1919



Box 2.3 Folder 1 History of Religion Lecture and Library Notes, circa 1910 -- 1919


Box 2.3 Folder 2 History of Religion, Greek Religion, Lecture and Library Notes, 1901 -- 1911


Box 2.3 Folder 3 Hampshire Conference at Amherst College, 1903


Box 2.3 Folder 4 History of Religion Lectures, 1905


Box 2.3 Folder 5 Lectures 27-31, Course Plans and Buddhism, circa 1900 -- 1909


Box 2.3 Folder 6 Old Testament and Religions of Japan, circa 1900 -- 1909



Box 2.4 Folder 1-2 Primitive, Roman, Greek and Indian Religions, circa 1900 -- 1909


Box 2.4 Folder 3 Loose Notes, circa 1910 -- 1919


Box 2.4 Folder 4 Letter from Bruno Hentschel (Leipzig) in German, 1922


Box 2.4 Folder 5 Portrait of H.P. Smith, circa 1864 -- 1899