Chard Powers Smith papers 1759-1978 1910-1977

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Chard Powers Smith papers 1759-1978 1910-1977

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The paperscontain writings, correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and familypapers of twentieth-century American writer Chard Powers Smith. The collectiondocuments his career through drafts of his writings and through correspondencethat reveals his personal and professional relationships with fellow writers,publishers, and literary organizations. The papers also contain informationabout his family, documenting not only his relationships with family membersbut also the lives of his parents and grandparents in nineteenth-centuryWatertown, New York. Smith's experiences during World War I and his travels inEurope in the 1920s are documented through correspondence, autobiographicalwritings, photographs, and scrapbooks. His involvement with the Distributistand Agrarian movements of the 1930s is evidenced by correspondence, writings,and printed ephemera, and the collection also documents his involvement withthe Society of Friends, or Quakers, particularly from the 1950s through the endof his life.

92 linearfeet (223 boxes)

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349729

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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