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