James J. Kilpatrick Papers 1969-1978

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains files of Kilpatrick's personal correspondence, reader mail in response to his columns and television appearances, correspondence concerning his speeches, together with some notes for, and copies of, his talks, radio and television transcripts, magazine essays, and correspondence, proofs, and reviews for The Foxes Union(1977). Topics include abortion, federal arts subsidies, amnesty for draft evaders, the federal bureaucracy, the business community, President Jimmy Carter, censorship, school discipline, government aid to private schools, E.R.A., foreign affairs, particularly Rhodesia., inhospitable hotels, laetrile, Bert Lance, Medicare abuse and government regulation of hospitals and practitioners, Richard Nixon, the Panama Canal, U.S. politics, school busing, reverse discrimination, the Book of Common Prayer, abuse of freedom of the press, social security, tax cuts, and the teaching of English. The collection also includes a number of prominent correspondents writing brief notes on letters, generally in response to a column.

Acquisition information:
The Library acquired these papers from James J. Kilpatrick on 26 Oct 1978.
Physical description:
3500 items