Hazel Littlefield Smith Papers ca. 1830s-1979

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Hazel Littlefield Smith Papers ca. 1830s-1979

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Resident in China from Farwell, Michigan; papers concern her family life in Farwell, and missionary activities; include letters, diaries, and accounts of father, Josiah L. Littlefield, Farwell lumber dealer and visitor to China, 1916-1917; letters, 1918-1928, of husband, Dr. Dennis V. Smith, medical missionary to China, describing in part Chinese politics and civil war, 1918-1920; letters and other papers of Hazel Littlefield Smith, including materials concerning various European travels, and manuscripts of writings about Irish author Lord Dunsany, her father, and Farwell, Michigan; and photographs. Other correspondents of Hazel Smith include world-renowed scientists (Edwin Hubble and William Beebe), from Chinese Princess Der Ling, and from distinguished European writers and actors (Pierre LaMure, Selma Lagerlof, Brian Aherne, and Ronald Colman).

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Hazel Littlefield was born in Farwell, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan (AB, 1913). In 1913, she married Dennis Vincent Smith who had graduated the previous year with a doctor of medicine degree from the university's medical school. The couple then moved to China where they worked for fourteen years under the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions in Peking, China. Smith was head of the Hopkins Memorial Hospital Eye Department, where he trained Chinese doctors as ...