(1808-1895) Image: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the "America Testimonial Committee" to Harvard College, 1895 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1829) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION American National Biography Online HARVARD COLLECTIONS General Overview HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Samuel Francis Smith HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Samuel Francis Smith Rare Materials Memoir Signed autograph manuscript of Samuel Francis Smith’s account of writing the hymn "America," the initial performance of the song, and its first printing. Manuscript: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (1831) Digital Highlights Googlebooks: Lyric Gems: A Collection of Original and Selected Sacred Poetry, ed. Rev. S.F. Smith (Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1844) Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
