Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

James Jackson Kilpatrick Papers, 1908, 1963-1997, Accession #6626-s, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the University of Virginia Library by James J. Kilpatrick on June 8, 1998

Biographical/Historical Information

James Jackson Kilpatrick (1920- ), is former editor of the Richmond News Leader , television commentator, author, and syndicated newspaper columnist.

Scope and Content Information

This collection consists of the additional papers of James J. Kilpatrick, ca. 1908, 1963-1997, including typescripts of his columns, "A Conservative View," "The Writer's Art and Covering the Courts," and "The Writer's Art," bound into volumes. Some of the typescripts have autographs changes and corrections and others are labeled "scanner ready copy."

Other papers include reporter's notebooks, 1978-1994; publication agreement and correspondence with EPM Publications, chiefly regarding his book, The Foxes' Union ; correspondence and contract with Universal Press Syndicate concerning a weekly column discussing language, its usage, and the art of writing, and the eventual publication of his columns in book form, including two publicity photographs of Kilpatrick; correspondence with National Geographic Traveler , concerning his travel story, "Richmond on The Noble James," and the typescript of the story; papers pertaining to his participation in the Black-Eyed Pea Society of America; and correspondence with readers concerning his column, "The Writer's Art."

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by subject.