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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Paul Smith papers #4211, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Paul Smith of Chapel Hill, N.C., in February 1978.

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• Berger, Josef, 1903- Cape Cod pilot.
• Booksellers and bookselling--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Cape Cod (Mass.)--In literature.
• Federal Writers' Project.
• Intimate Bookshop (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Modern Pilgrim Press (Provincetown, Mass.)
• Publishers and publishing--Massachusetts--History--20th century.
• Religion in literature.
• Smith, Paul, 1904-1977.

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.