Smith, Chard Powers, 1894- papers, 1806-1930, 1860-1900 (bulk).

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Smith, Chard Powers, 1894- papers, 1806-1930, 1860-1900 (bulk).

Land papers of Isaac Powers, 1859-96; correspondence between members of the Powers and Smith families, 1870-90; literature notebook of Alice L. Powers, 1890-91; bird-watching notebook, 1907-11; letters to Hannibal Smith about the education of Edward Smith, 1890-95; bills from Ogontz School for Young Ladies, Pennsylvania, for Alice L. Powers, 1891; and photographs, 1895-1930.

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Smith, Chard Powers, 1894-1977

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The writer Chard Powers Smith was born in Watertown, New York, and educated at the Pawling School and Yale University, class of 1916. Following service as a captain in the U.S. Army Field Artillery during World War I, he received a law degree from Harvard in 1921, but early abandoned the practice of law to make his living as a writer. In the 1920s he travelled and lived intermittently in Europe, where he moved in American expatriate social and literary circles. A regular at the MacDowell Colony ...