Rauner Special Collections Finding Aids

Guide to the Papers of Jeffrey P. Hart, 1982 - 2005

Contact Information: Rauner Special Collections Library. 6065 Webster Hall Hanover, NH 03755-2519, USA Phone: (603) 646-2037 FAX: (603) 646-0447 Email: Rauner.Reference@dartmouth.edu URL: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~speccoll/

	Creator:	Hart, Jeffrey P.
	Title Remainder:	Papers. 1982 - 2005
	Dates:	1982 - 2005
	Identification:	MS-941
	Size of collection:	1 box (.5 linear ft.)
	Abstract:	Jeffrey Peter Hart, born in 1930 in Brooklyn, New York; attended Dartmouth College, graduated from Columbia University in 1952. Author and Professor of English, Dartmouth College 1963 to 1993. Primarily consist of correspondence (typescript and manuscript) with notable political figures, publishers, former students, academics, and personal acquaintances. Correspondents include Richard Nixon, Jack Kemp, Norman Podhertz, Pat Buchanan, William Randolph Herst Jr, Richard Viguerie, John Sununu, Jacqnes Barzan, Lew Lehrman, Nackey Loeb, George Will, George Bush, Michael Deaver, Ed Koch, Joyce Carol Oates, Harold Bloom, William F. Buckley, Jr.

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Biography

Jeffrey Peter Hart was born on April 22, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in New York City. He entered Dartmouth as a member of the class of 1951 and left during his junior year. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1952 followed by his PhD and served in the U.S. Naval Intelligence during the Korean War. Hart returned to Dartmouth and taught English from 1963 to 1993. While there, he served as faculty advisor for The Dartmouth Review and continues to advise the paper. He was a right-leaning syndicated columnist as well as a speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Reagan. He became senior editor of The National Review in 1969. Hart is author of nine books including The Making of the Amerian Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times, Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics, and Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education.

Scope and Contents of Collection

The Jeffrey Hart papers primarily consist of correspondence (typescript and manuscript) with notable political figures, publishers, former students, academics, and personal acquaintances. Several published articles and poems by Hart are also included.

The correspondence documents publisher responses to Hart's submissions, reader response to essays published in the National Review, praise and opinions of Hart's literary work, and writers' thanks to Hart for his praise of their published works.

Correspondents include Richard Nixon, Jack Kemp, Norman Podhertz, Pat Buchanan, William Randolph Herst Jr, Richard Viguerie, John Sununu, Jacqnes Barzan, Lew Lehrman, Nackey Loeb, George Will, George Bush, Michael Deaver, Ed Koch, Joyce Carol Oates and Harold Bloom. Of particular note is the extensive correspondence with William F. Buckley, Jr., principally about matters relating to National Review.

Access to Collection

Unrestricted.

Restrictions on Use

Unrestricted.

Preferred citation

Papers of Jeffrey P. Hart; MS-941; Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

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BOX : 1

FOLDER : 1

Correspondence 1982

FOLDER : 2

Correspondence 1983

FOLDER : 3

Correspondence 1984

FOLDER : 4

Correspondence 1985

FOLDER : 5

Correspondence 1987

FOLDER : 6

Correspondence 1988

FOLDER : 7

Correspondence 2001

FOLDER : 8

Correspondence 2002

FOLDER : 9

Correspondence 2003

FOLDER : 10

Correspondence 2004 Jan. - 2004 Jun.

FOLDER : 11

Correspondence 2004 Aug. - 2004 Dec.

FOLDER : 12

Correspondence 2005

FOLDER : 13

Articles and Poems Undated

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