#  Samuel Francis Smith 

 



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    Image: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the "America Testimonial Committee" to Harvard College, 1895 











  



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 Attended Harvard (A.B. 1829) Sort   







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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-01533.html) 











  



 





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    **General Overview** 











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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Samuel Francis Smith](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%20%20_%20Smith,%20Samuel%20Francis,%201808-1895)&adjacent=1) 











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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Samuel Francis Smith](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%20%20_%20Smith,%20Samuel%20Francis,%201808-1895)&adjacent=1) 











    **Rare Materials** 











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  [Memoir](http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009832364/catalog%20)   
Signed autograph manuscript of Samuel Francis Smith’s account of writing the hymn "America," the initial performance of the song, and its first printing. 











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  [Manuscript: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (1831)](http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009831884/catalog%20) 











    **Digital Highlights** 











    











  [Googlebooks: *Lyric Gems: A Collection of Original and Selected Sacred Poetry*, ed. Rev. S.F. Smith (Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1844)](http://books.google.com/books?vid=HARVARDHN6GZV&printsec=titlepage#PPA1,M1)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.