Finding Aid for the Hart Press Collection 1932-1961
Processed by Jamie Henricks.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Hart Press Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1932-1961
Collection number: Press Coll. Hart
Creator: Hart, James D.
(James David), 1911-1990
Extent:
1 box
(2.5 linear inches)
Repository:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90018
Abstract: This collection contains items printed by
James D. Hart of the Hart Press. Included are individual pieces of
ephemera and keepsake printed booklets or pamphlets. Some are about
Western America, including the California Gold Rush.
Physical location: Clark Library
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts or printed items must be submitted in writing to the Clark
Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hart Press Collection, Press Coll. Hart,
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Items in this collection were donated from individuals, or collected
over time by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Individual
donated items have the donor's name written in pencil. Donors include
James Hart, Samuel T. Farquhar, Wilder Bentley, and Lawrence Clark
Powell.
Processing History
Processed by Jamie Henricks, August 2009.
Biography
James David Hart was born in San Francisco in 1911. He received his
undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in American
Literature from Harvard. He later became a faculty member of Berkeley as
an English professor, held the post of Vice Chancellor of the Berkeley
campus from 1957-1960, and was also the director of the Bancroft Library
from 1969 to 1970.
He was a member of the Board of Trustees of
Mills College, as well as being a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and the American Antiquarian Society. Hart served as
president of the Book Club of California from 1950 to 1960. Hart wrote
and edited multiple books, including the Oxford Companion to American
Literature. He also printed his own ephemera (mainly about the Western
United States) in his home, the location of the Hart Press.
He
married twice: Ruth Hart (died in 1977), and Constance Crowley Bowles
Hart (who survived Hart) and had two children. Hart died in 1990 in
Berkeley.
Scope and Content
This collection contains items printed by James D. Hart of the Hart
Press. Included are individual pieces of ephemera and keepsake printed
booklets or pamphlets. Some are about Western America, including the
California Gold Rush.
Arrangement
The collection arrived with little order imposed on it. Some items
were in folders, and larger pamphlets were loose. Items in folders were
left in their original order, but the loose pamphlets were arranged in
chronological order by date of publication.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Printers--California--20th
century
Private
presses--California--20th century
Small
presses--California--20th century
Hart Press
Genres and Forms
Ephemera--California--20th century
Box 1, Folder 1
A Letter from Stephen Reynolds of Honolulu to Thomas O.
Larkin of San Francisco, November 1848 / introductory note by Adele
Ogden
1948
Scope and Content Note
This item is a reprint by the Hart Press of a letter for the Book
Club of California as part eleven of "Letters of the Gold Discovery".
The folder contains an introductory note, a transcript of the letter,
and a facsimile reproduction of the letter.
Box 1, Folder 2
Mr. Houseman's Message / by Ezra Pound
[1933?]
Box 1, Folder 3
Announcement for sale of Bayside Bohemia / by Gelett Burgess;
introduction by James D. Hart
1954
Box 1, Folder 4
An Essay on Scholarship / by Joseph Addison
1941
Box 1, Folder 5
Ephemera
1940-1961
Scope and Content Note
Includes "Portrait" by e.e. cummings (1940), "Christmas in Plymouth"
(1961), a piece for the type specimen book of the Pelican Press by
Francis Meynell and printed by Hart (1959), and an announcement for the
sale of "My First Publication", edited and with introductions by Hart
(1961).
The Cod Head / by William Carlos Williams
1932
Note
Printed at the Harvest Press, San Francisco. Unknown whether
James Hart was involved in printing, but the item is a gift from Hart to
the Clark Library.
Cruelty to Seamen: Being the Case of Nichols and Couch / by
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
1937
Note
Printed as a keepsake for the Roxburghe Club.
"The World Below the Brine": A Poem from the Sea-Drift
Section of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass 1892 Edition
1940
Constitutional Metaphors, a Review of James M. Beck's "The
Constitution of the United States," originally published in 'The New
Republic' of February 11, 1925 / by Thomas Reed Powell
1941
The Mote in the Middle Distance: A Parody of Henry James / by
Max Beerbohm; illustrations by Lloyd Hoff
1946
Ode to the Virginian Voyage / by Michael Drayton
1946
After This, Sea / by Josephine Miles
1947
Scope and Content Note
Part six of the California Poetry Folios; The Book Club of
California.
A Forty Niner's Christmas / by William Downie
1947
George Washington
1947
Scope and Content Note
Excerpts from a letter about George Washington written by Thomas
Jefferson, January 2, 1814, to Dr. Walter Jones.
Three Poems by the Long Island Farmer Bloodgood H.
Cutter
1948
Reginald's Christmas Revel / by Saki
1949
Berkeley: Xanadu of the San Francisco Bay / by Bret
Harte
1951
Dickens and Christmas, as George Moore might well have
described them / by Max Beerbohm
1955