The Housatonic : the Puritan River, undated.

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The Housatonic : the Puritan River, undated.

An original typescript, with manuscript annotations and editorial marks, attributed to Chard Powers Smith based on the title. A book of the same name was published in 1946 by Powers. The work tells the history of the Housatonic River.

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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 ...