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Philadelphia, written at this time, and curiously indicative of his 

 sense of local order and of the care which he gave his papers. I 

 infer from the letter that the Doctor contemplated having some 

 alterations made in his study, or to have it papered or painted, 

 and was solicitous about keeping his "great chest" and "small 

 red trunk" together. 



Dr. Smith to Witliam Moore Smith. "" 



Lancaster, January 21st, iSoo. 



My Dear Son: I wish you to ride out now and then to Schuylkill, to 

 see how my people there are going on ; and the first time you go out get 

 Bell (the Doctor's sister) to open rny room, and in the open closet by 

 the Avindow you will see a small red trunk containing MSS., sermons 

 and other papers ; also some books on the shelves. I wish them all to 

 be lifted out and laid on or by the great chest or trunk of papers, lest 

 they should be forgot. If any occasion should be (which I hope will 

 not be) to remove the large chest — or without your moving the little 

 red trunk and books out of the closet — they may stand, and it may be 

 sufficient if you put Bell in mind to move them if necessary to move 

 anything else. If you have any windows opened in the room, you will 

 see that they are again shut as I left them. Write to me, directing to 

 Chambersburg, where I shall remain with the judges till the mail 

 arrives. Your affectionate father, 



William Smith. 



While at Lancaster, Thomas Mifflin, long the Governor of Penn- 

 sylvania, died on the 25th of January. Resolutions were passed 

 by the Legislature expressive of his Excellency's merits and his 

 services as a soldier and a statesman, and providing for his inter- 

 ment at the public expense and for the erection of a monument to 

 his memory. Dr. Smith was requested by the new Governor, the 

 Senate and House of Representatives, to deliver a commemorative 

 sermon. This sermon was never published, and there was little 

 in it not of a general nature. While Dr. Smith, of course, could 

 not decline a public request to preach at least a " Regulation " 

 sermon on the death of a Governor of Pennsylvania, and especially 

 of one long his near neighbor and personal acquaintance, and 

 while he would have been very ready to admit the considerable 

 place that Governor Mifflin will always hold among the governors 

 of Pennsylvania — in early days the representatives of the Demo- 



* In the fine collection of autographs of F. J. Dreer. Esq, 



