Smith College. Office of President. Laurenus Clark Seelye Files.

Title

Smith College. Office of President. Laurenus Clark Seelye Files.

Description

First president of Smith College. Contains biographical material, correspondence, sermons, speeches, lectures, publications, photographs, and family papers of Henrietta Chapin Seelye. Correspondents include President Marion LeRoy Burton, Harry Norman Gardiner, Arthur L. Gillett, John M. Greene, Mary Augusta Jordan, William H. Lanning, Alice (Lord) Parsons, Herbert A. Wilder, Andrew Carnegie, President William McKinley, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr, among others.

Contributor

College Archives

Items in the Smith College. Office of President. Laurenus Clark Seelye Files. Collection

L. Clark Seelye, typed letter signed, dated 19 June 1907, to Josephine Clark.
President Seelye letter offering the position as chief librarian to Josephine Clark.

L. Clark Seelye, typed letter signed, dated 25 March 1907, to Josephine Clark.
President Seelye's letter to Josephine Clark asking her to consider the position of chief librarian at Smith. (3 pages)

Portrait of L. Clark Seelye, President of Smith College, 1904.
Seated portrait of Seelye, who was president of Smith College from 1873-1910.