Seba Smith papers

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unittitle

{"value"=>"Seba Smith papers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1813-1867", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1813/1867"}

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date_inclusive_start

1813

date_inclusive_end

1867

origination

{"value"=>"Smith, Seba, 1792-1868", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Author and editor of Portland, Maine, and New York City. His wife, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, was an author, lyceum lecturer and early women's rights activist.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Papers include his autobiography prepared for the \"Bowdoin Memorial;\" letters, 1813, 1848-1867, with drafts of letters to Auguste Comte and other European and American scholars regarding his \"New Elements of Geometry;\" ten poems; three manuscripts of \"Robert Wylie of Townsend;\" a lecture on geometry, p. 28-34; notes on geometry; newspaper clippings of his prose and poetry; and reviews and notices of his books.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

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{"accession_number"=>"MSS"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Related collections include the Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library</p>"}

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1813

prefercite

{"value"=>"Seba Smith papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Author and editor of Portland, Maine, and New York City. His wife, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, was an author, lyceum lecturer and early women's rights activist. Papers include his autobiography prepared for the \"Bowdoin Memorial;\" letters, 1813, 1848-1867, with drafts of letters to Auguste Comte and other European and American scholars regarding his \"New Elements of Geometry;\" ten poems; three manuscripts of \"Robert Wylie of Townsend;\" a lecture on geometry, p. 28-34; notes on geometry; newspaper clippings of his prose and poetry; and reviews and notices of his books.", "generated"=>true}

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1 box

date_start

1813

date_end

1867

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