John Curtis and Mary Snell Smith Papers 1837-1873 1853-1869

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John Curtis and Mary Snell Smith Papers 1837-1873 1853-1869

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John Curtis Smith and Mary Snell Steele Smith were Congregational missionaries from New England who served in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which was then part of the India Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This collection provides intensive documentation for the lives of missionary families especially "missionary children" and their extended families in the 1850s through the early 1870s. Of particular value in this collection is the large number of letters written by the Smith children themselves. The six children in the Smith family were all born in Ceylon and spent at least half of their childhoods there before being sent or taken to live in the United States, where they resided with relatives and friends in New England.

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