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Samuel Francis Smith Collection, Accession 8828-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1968 March 15
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[Congratulates a fellow clergyman -whom he has not personally met -on his 53rd birthday. Praises his stimulating sermons, his work as an editor [ Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine ], and his writings.]
[Regards a hymn Smith wrote for the Old School Boys of Boston . Corrects dates relating to his own attendance of the Eliot School as well as a printer's error in the hymn.]
[Informs Roe of his schedule. Will be happy to meet him and his friends at his home.]
[Thanks him for 3 letters, especially the one containing Grover Cleveland 's acknowledgement, and for a set of beautiful orange spoons. Feels undeserving of Mr. Secor's interest in him -promises to write him 50 copies of America , will send them in installments. He also sent on request a copy of America to Penn College , Ashatoosa, Iowa , to be hung framed on the library walls. Begs him to take care of his health and eyes, as a blind man would make a miserable engraver.]
[Has not responded to his letter sooner because of his tremendous correspondence after a testimonial. Responding to the many congratulations, etc., has been too much for his tired old eyes -mentions an assembly of 5,000 people who "shared in the excitement of the congregations." Also mentions a portrait, painted by [George De Maduro?] Peixotto , (of him ?) to be hung in Memorial Hall at Harvard . Remarks on social events. Comments on the " Connecticut Fast Day" which in Massachusetts has been replaced by "Patriots' Day."]