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Papers of Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith

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  • "Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers papers"

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  • "Letters and diaries discuss the publication of the Jack Downing letters and criticism of the geometry; Mrs. Smith's literary career and lecture tours; her efforts to vindicate Appleton from charges of slave trading brought by William H. Seward, Appleton's divorce from his first wife and the drowning of his four daughters in an 1879 North Carolina boating acident; the diplomatic careers of Appleton and Sidney in Nicaragua, Haiti, and Panama; Edward's religious meditations, conversion to Catholicism and Jesuit novitiate in France; Sidney's law practice and death at sea in 1869; and efforts of Mrs. Smith and her daughter-in-law Delfina Oaksmith to run boarding houses."
  • "Other topics inclue the "thermolume" cure, New England literary figures, current events, spiritualism, abolition, Mrs. Smith's interviews with Thurlow Weed and Andrew Johnson on behalf of Appleton, her campaign in behalf of a condemned woman, and her controversy with P. T. Barnum over unauthorized use of her name; and descriptions of life in Portland, Maine, New Mexico in 1885, and Lettsburg, Northumberland County, Va., 1884-1892. Of special interest is her eyewitness account of the 1863 New York City draft riot."
  • "Correspondents include: Gales and Seaton, Washington, D.C., Lilly, Wait and Co., Boston, Mass., Benjamin Paul Akers, P. T. Barnum, Edward W. Bok, Elizabeth Bogart, Helen Stuart Campbell, George William Childs, Myron Helley Clark, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Daniel Clement Colesworthy, Auguste Comte, Augustus Whittemore Corliss, Samuel Eliot Coues, Thomas Amory Deblois, Caroline Amelia Smith DeWindt, Julia Deane Freeman, Hamilton Fish, Louis A. Godey, Horace Greeley, Rufus W. Griswold, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Frederic H. Hedge, Salley Helley, Sallie Hollis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abraham Newkirk Littlejohn, Benson John Lossing, Lucretia Mott, Anna Cora Mowatt, C. A. Munson, David Dixon Porter, Epes Sargent, Mary Schoolcraft, Lydia Howard Sigourney, Frances Springer, Edmund C. Stedman, C. B. Stuart, Charles Swain, S. M. Ware, Sarah Helen Whitman. There are drafts of a letter to Daniel Webster and one to Dom Pedre de Alcantara."
  • "The literary papers include Seba Smith's column on Major Jack Downing and Solomon Swope, and reviews of his "New elements of geometry"; drafts and copies of numerous poems, short stories, essays and lectures by Mrs. Smith as well as manuscripts of her plays "Destiny," "Roman tribute," and "Old New York," sermons, 1877, from her pastorate of the Independent Church, Canastota, N.Y.; Edward Oaksmith's translations of Moliere's "Miser"; and manuscripts and clippings of poems and short stories by Seba, the sons and granddaughters."
  • "The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, and journals of Mrs. Smith, her husband, Seba Smith, and of their sons, Appleton Oaksmith, Sidney Oaksmith, Alvin Oaksmith and Edward Oaksmith."
  • "The collection also contains a youthful diary, 1871-1873, of Elizabeth Oaksmith, photographs, and scrapbooks compiled by Augusta Oaksmith containing clippings re the family and their literary output."

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  • "Photographs"
  • "Diaries"
  • "Church history"
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  • "History"
  • "Scrapbooks"
  • "Manuscripts"
  • "Letters (Correspondence)"

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