Correspondence related to religious poet and writer Elizabeth Lee Allen Smith (1817-1893); her husband, theologian and educator Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877); and their family.

Elizabeth Lee Allen Smith (1817-1893), was a religious poet and writer and a member of a prominent New England abolitionist family. Her father was Reverend William Allen (1784-1868), an antislavery theologian and educator, and president of Dartmouth and Bowdoin colleges. in 1843 Elizabeth Lee Allen Smith married Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877), a theologian, preacher, and educator known for promoting German theological and historical scholarship. The couple had four children: Arixene Southgate Smith Woolsey (1843-1931); Maria Malleville Wheelock Smith McClellan (1845-1924); William Allen Smith (1848-1899); and the theologian Henry Goodwin Smith (1860-1940).

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