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Boston-born Baptist minister and academic (1808–1895) best known as the lyricist of ‘America’ (‘My Country, ’Tis of Thee’), written while he was a student at Andover Theological Seminary. AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 6.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion, “S. F. Smith. Written in 1832. This autograph Aug. 29, ’94.” Smith pens the first stanza of ‘America.’ In full: “My country, ’tis of thee, / Sweet land of liberty, / Of thee I sing; / Land where my fathers died, / Land of the pilgrims’ pride, / From every mountainside, / Let freedom ring