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{"value"=>"Robin Hardy papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span><div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The papers reflect the personal life and career of Robin Hardy, Canadian-born gay activist, writer and editor of action/adventure fiction who emigrated to the United States from Canada in 1984. The papers consist of Hardy's personal and family correspondence; editorial correspondence and papers reflecting his work as a writer and editor; clippings of published articles; typescript drafts and outlines of stories, novels and other writings, including his book on the AIDS epidemic, <span class=\"title\">The Crisis of Desire</span> ; personal miscellany including high school and college compositions; diaries; photographs; printed matter relating to AIDS; and sound and video recordings."}
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{"value"=>"<p> Robin Hardy Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Hardy, Robin, 1952-1995", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Robin Clarkson Hardy, gay activist, writer, editor, and producer of adventure fiction, was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 12, 1952, the son of William Hardy, a businessman, and Jean (Guppy) Hardy. In 1955 the Hardy family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in 1963, to Ottawa, Ontario, where Robin completed his secondary education at The Glebe Collegiate Institute from which he was graduated in July of 1970. Afterwards, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors) from the University of Alberta, where he studied creative writing, and a Bachelor of Laws Degree in 1976 from Dalhousie University. Finding the prospect of practicing law uncongenial, he turned his talents to journalism and to creative writing. He settled for a time in Toronto, where he became a staff writer and member of the editorial collective of <span class=\"title\">Body Politic</span>, a respected gay news magazine with an international circulation. During his Toronto years he published numerous essays and reviews on gay life and culture in the gay and straight press, produced radio documentaries for CBC Toronto, and served as human rights organizer for the Coalition of Gay Rights, purportedly the first full time salaried position of its kind in Canada.</p> <p> After living for several years in Europe, Hardy emigrated to the United States in 1984, settling in New York City where he established a career as editor, writer and producer of fiction for the adult, young adult, and juvenile markets. From 1987 to 1991 he was executive editor of The Cloverdale Press which specialized in producing action/adventure fiction, westerns, and thrillers for Avon, Bantam, Dell, Ballantyne and other publishers. He was ghostwriter under several pseudonyms of numerous young adult novels in mystery and horror series. His book, <span class=\"title\">Call of the Wendigo</span> (N.Y., Bantam, 1994), the first young adult novel published under his own name, was a great popular success. His manuscript on the AIDS crisis, \"Landscape of Death,\" was incomplete at the time of his death. The manuscript was completed by his friend, David Groff, and published (1996) by Houghton-Mifflin under the title <span class=\"title\">The Crisis of Desire</span> .</p> <p> In 1993 Mr. Hardy removed to Tucson, Arizona where he continued his work as a freelance writer and editor. On October 28, 1995 he lost his life while hiking with a friend in the mountains of Tonto National Forest. At the time of his death he was undergoing treatment for HIV infection. He was survived by his parents, his two sisters, Eloise and Michele Hardy, of Ottawa, and by his brother Charles, also of Ottawa.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> The papers consist of Hardy's personal and family correspondence; editorial correspondence and papers reflecting his work as a writer and editor; clippings of published articles; typescript drafts and outlines of stories, novels and other writings, including <span class=\"title\">The Crisis of Desire</span> ; personal miscellany including high school and college compositions; diaries; photographs; printed matter relating to AIDS; and sound and video recordings.</p> <p> Correspondents include Hardy's friends and family member, fellow writers, publishers, and editors. The correspondence illustrates Hardy's career as a writer and editor, his experiences as an expatriate in Europe and the United States, and reflects his interests in men's sexuality and AIDS. His diaries provide further insights into his day-to-day activities living in Canada, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, as well as the development of ideas that became actualized in <span class=\"title\">The Crisis of Desire</span> . Hardy's writings include fiction both fiction and nonfiction works; nonfiction include articles and essays, autobiographical writings, poetry, and both Hardy and Groff's material involving <span class=\"title\">The Crisis of Desire</span> . Hardy's work as an editor is well-documented and consists of correspondence with authors, authors' typescripts, book proposals, chapter outlines, research notes, agreements, and papers relating to Hardy's work as executive director of the Cloverdale Press, to his freelance work as editor and author of action/adventure fiction, and to the Writers Retreat Workshop where he was a editor-in-residence.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robin Hardy papers are arranged in eleven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c256863'>I. Personal correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1970-1996</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c256879'>II. Family correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1914-1944, 1964-1992</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> The family correspondence consists of letters to Robin Hardy from his brothers, Charles and Christopher Hardy; from his sisters, Eloise and Michele Hardy; from his mother and father, Jean and William Hardy; and from his aunt and grandmother. There are a few letters from Robin Hardy to his brother, Christopher, in the period 1974-1981; and to his sister, Eloise, in the period 1972-1985; and miscellaneous papers of Christopher Hardy. Also included are various condolence cards and letters that were sent to Eloise, Jean, and William from Hardy's friends and colleagues following his death. The letters often contain detailed remembrances of Hardy's life. Additionally, this file contains Eloise's eulogy for Hardy and a detailed letter regarding the circumstances of his death while hiking in Tonta National Forest.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c256899'>III. Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> The writings are arranged into fiction and nonfiction. The nonfiction writings are arranged into typescripts of articles; clippings of published articles; autobiographical writings and poetry; and <span class=\"title\">Crisis of Desire</span> .</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257000'>IV. Editorial files</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series consists of a topical file of correspondence, authors' typescripts, book proposals, chapter outlines, research notes, agreements, and other papers relating to Hardy's work as executive director of the Cloverdale Press, publisher of action/adventure fiction, to his free lance work as editor and author of action/adventure fiction, and to the Writers Retreat Workshop where he was a editor-in-residence. Included is correspondence with Mark Howell of Gold Eagle Books, a subsidiary of Harlequin Enterprises of Ontario, Canada, with his literary agent, Mitch Douglas, relative to work in progress and to marketing strategies; and correspondence with other editors and publishers including Mega-Books of New York, Inc. relative to a proposed Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mystery entitled \"Conspiracy in Copper Canyon,\" with Chardiet Unlimited, Inc. relative to a horror series entitled \"Foul Play\"; and with Bantam Books regarding the publication of his book The Call of the Wendigo. There are also research files on ancient Egypt, folklore, myths, spirituality, and on the American West; correspondence with John Anthony West regarding a proposed biography of West; and correspondence, including a letter from Congressman Barney Frank, regarding Hardy's article \"Final Exit\" about the euthanasia death in Holland of his friend, Hans Faasse, which was published in <span class=\"title\">Penthouse</span> magazine.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257054'>V. Personal miscellaneous papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series, which is arranged topically, consists of miscellaneous papers relating to Robin Hardy's personal life. Included are biographical papers, fragments of a personal journal (1972-1975), letters of recommendation, medical records including insurance invoices relating to his HIV infection, membership cards, passports, a memorandum book of personal accounts (1968-1969), pocket engagement calendars (1979-1995 in 15 volumes), file of addresses, report cards of his grades in primary school; and papers relating to his high school education at The Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa; and to his studies at The University of Alberta and at Dalhousie University. Included are typescripts of his college compositions for courses in creative writing, philosophy, psychology, and political science; examination papers and grade reports.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257078'>VI. Diaries</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1974-1995</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series contains holograph notebooks with printed matter, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera interleaved within the entries. The majority of the diaries are from late-1970s to the early-1980s, thus documenting Hardy's life in Canada as a writer, editor, and activist, and his move to Europe where he lived in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Entries discuss Hardy's life abroad, his friends, family, work, his sexual encounters and fantasies, as well as trace the development of his ideas on male sexuality, the gay community, and the affect of AIDS on both.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257079'>VII. Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series includes snapshots and photographic portraits of Robin Hardy taken at various periods of his life, as a child, college student, and during his adulthood. Most of the photos appear to have been taken in Canada. There are also group snapshots of Robin Hardy with friends; and family photos of his mother, father, and siblings. There are also a few snapshots of gay demonstrations in New York City.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257084'>VIII. Artwork</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> This series consists of miscellaneous oversized artwork by, or relating to, Robin Hardy, and other oversized materials. Included are water color drawings depicting human images in distorted shapes some erotic in nature; cover designs for \"Waterworld\" and \"Zimbab and the Greek Boy\"; an oversized drawing pad containing brief notes and ideas for chapters of literary works in progress including \"The Weimar Syndrome,\" \"Saigon Story,\" \"The Armageddon Conspiracy,\" and his action/adventure fiction series \"The S.O.Bs\" and \"Soldiers of Barrabas.\" Included also is an oversized engagement calendar for 1995, \"Art Against AIDS,\" containing a few entries by Hardy; and three nude photographic portraits of Robin Hardy on oversized sheets. There are also a few drawings of images of Robin Hardy by his friend [Susan] Collins dated 1973.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257085'>IX. Printed matter</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> The bulk of the printed matter consists of ephemera relating to gays and to AIDS. Additionally, the materials related to circumcision include issues of Chuck Thompson's newsletter regarding intact celebrities as well as an issue of Sam Frank's \"Well-Hung Hollywood.\"</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257109'>X. Sound and video recordings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/4806#c257147'>XI. Restricted papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p> The restricted papers consist of correspondence removed from Series I; a record of an interview removed from Series III; and response letters to a personal ad placed by Hardy.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Robin Hardy Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul class=\"list\"> <li>I. Personal correspondence, 1970-1996</li> <li>II. Family correspondence, 1914-1944, 1964-1992</li> <li>III. Writings</li> <li>IV. Editorial files</li> <li>V. Personal miscellaneous papers</li> <li>VI. Diaries, 1974-1995</li> <li>VII. Photographs</li> <li>VIII. Artwork</li> <li>IX. Printed matter</li> <li>X. Sound and video recordings</li> <li>XI. Restricted papers</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p> Donated by the Estate of Robin Hardy, via Eloise Hardy, 2000 and 2010. Additional materials donated by David Groff, 2002.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Processed by John D. Stinson; revised by Susan Malsbury.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Series X. of the papers is closed until 2028.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Memorial Service Program added by Susan M. Kline.", "date"=>"December 11, 2017"}
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1914
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1914
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2001
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1914
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2001
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1970
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1995
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15 linear feet (37 boxes, 1 oversized folder)