Early life Logan Pearsall Smith

logan pearsall smith

smith born in millville, new jersey. son of prominent quakers robert pearsall smith , hannah whitall smith, , descendant of james logan, william penn s secretary , chief justice of pennsylvania in 18th century. mother s family had become wealthy glass factories. lived time boy in england. in 1938 autobiography, smith describes how in youth came friend of walt whitman in poet s latter years.

smith s sister alys first wife of philosopher bertrand russell. sister mary married twice, first irish barrister benjamin conn frank costelloe. 2 daughters ray strachey , karin stephen, in-laws lytton strachey , virginia woolf, respectively. mary later married art historian bernard berenson.