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The James F. Smith Collection is made up of 20 letters and documents dating from the times of Brigadier General Smith's employment in the Philippine Commission and Secretary of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands (1904-1906), as Governor General of the islands (1906-1910), and as a judge in Washington, D.C. The bulk of the materials pertain to Smith's services in the Philippines, with a particular focus on criticisms and arguments related to James F. Smith's favoritism or non-favoritism of Protestant versus Catholic missionaries' interests there, Catholic lands in the islands, education, and Henry D. Estabrook's speech on the American involvement in the Philippines. A particularly lengthy report pertains to a 1906 investigation of a possible arson in Oriental Negros, with charges that the people of Bais celebrated the destruction of the Luzuriaga church. The collection includes letters by U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Bishops Jeremiah Harty and James Gibbons, and others.

The James F. Smith Collection is made up of 20 letters and documents dating from the times of Brigadier General Smith's employment in the Philippine Commission and Secretary of Public Instruction in the Philippine Islands (1904-1906), as Governor General of the islands (1906-1910), and as a judge in Washington, D.C. The bulk of the materials pertain to Smith's services in the Philippines, with a particular focus on criticisms and arguments related to James F. Smith's favoritism or non-favoritism of Protestant versus Catholic missionaries' interests there, Catholic lands in the islands, education, and Henry D. Estabrook's speech on the American involvement in the Philippines. A particularly lengthy report pertains to a 1906 investigation of a possible arson in Oriental Negros, with charges that the people of Bais celebrated the destruction of the Luzuriaga church. The collection includes letters by U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Bishops Jeremiah Harty and James Gibbons, and others.

Please see the box and folder listing for detailed information on the contents of each item in the collection.