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Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items) |
Abstract | Publisher, writer, and bookstore owner. Business correspondence of Paul Smith and writings by him. The correspondence concerns Smith's activities as publisher of Modern Pilgrim Press, Provincetown, Mass., in the 1930s, and owner of the Intimate Bookshop, Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1960s. Also included are manuscripts of short stories, plays, and book-length writings on Cape Cod and religion. Of special interest is correspondence about the publication of "Cape Cod Pilot" by Jeremiah Digges (Josef Berger), as part of the American Guide Series published under the sponsorship of the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s. |
Creator | Smith, Paul, 1904-1977. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Anne von Storch, March 1986
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2022
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Publisher, writer, and bookstore owner.
Back to TopBusiness correspondence of Paul Smith and writings by him. The correspondence concerns Smith's activities as publisher of Modern Pilgrim Press, Provincetown, Mass., in the 1930s, and owner of the Intimate Bookshop, Chapel Hill, N.C., in the 1960s. Also included are manuscripts of short stories, plays, and book-length writings on Cape Cod and religion. Of special interest is correspondence about the publication of "Cape Cod Pilot" by Jeremiah Digges (Josef Berger), as part of the American Guide Series published under the sponsorship of the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s.
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Box 1-2
Box 1Box 2 |
Paul Smith Papers, 1937-1968 |