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