© 2010. State University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 176, Peter H. Hare Family Papers, 1953-2006 (1953-1995 bulk), University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.
See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.
Acquisition InformationCollection donated by Peter H. Hare in March, 2007.
Terms of AccessThe Peter H. Hare Family Papers, 1953-2006 (1953-1995 bulk) are open for research.
CopyrightCopyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Processing InformationProcessed by Karen Spencer, September 2010.
Accruals and AdditionsNo further accruals are expected to this collection.
Peter H. Hare was born March 12, 1935, grew up on Long Island, New York, and attended the Groton School. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1957, and his M.A. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1965 from Columbia University. He was a faculty member in and frequent chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York from 1962 until his retirement in 2001. He was named Distinguished Service Professor in 1997. He married Daphne Kean in 1957 who died in 1995. In 2000, he married Susan Howe, a poet and specialist in American literature. Peter died on January 3, 2008. An obituary may be read here .
Peter Hare Family members include:
Daphne Joan Kean Hare was born in 1937. She received a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a medical degree from Cornell University. She was on the faculty of the departments of Medicine and Biophysical Sciences in the School of Medicine and Biophysical Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo before serving as director of the Medical/Dental Division of the United States Veterans Administration. She died in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1995.
The collection consists of personal letters from Daphne Kean Hare to Peter Hare from 1955 to 1992, and letters to Peter or Daphne Hare from friends, former teachers and professors, and family members including parents, siblings and children. Of note are some genealogical writings by Peter's father, Michael Meredith Hare (1909-1968). Also included are materials and correspondence from Peter Hare's years in the Philosophy Department, miscellaneous writings, and personal and professional files.
This collection is arranged in three series:
|
I. Personal Correspondence,
1953-1992 |
||
|
Contains personal letters written to Peter Hare or to Peter and Daphne Hare from family and friends. |
||
|
By author. |
||
| Daphne's early letters while a coed at Barnard are descriptive of world events, sexism, politics, advertising, marriage, the medical profession, Gandhi, God, philosophy, the civil rights movement, pacifism and disarmament. Of particular note is a description of her attendance at meetings led by Father Divine of the International Peace Movement and Sweet Daddy Grace written on March 4th, 1957. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.1-1.3 |
December 1955 - December 1956
|
|
| 1.4-1.6 |
1957
|
|
| 2.1 |
December 1958-February 1968
|
|
| 2.2 |
1969
|
|
| 2.3 |
1970-1979
|
|
| 2.4 |
1982-1992
|
|
| 2.5 |
Undated
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 2.6 |
Clare [Clark] Hare,
1971-1976
|
|
| 2.7 |
Gwendolyn Hare,
1976-2005,
undated
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 2.8 |
Michael S. Hare,
1953-1980
|
|
| 3.1 |
Sara Perry Hare [Crane] Liebold,
1953-1983
|
|
| 3.2 |
Kelvin L. Kean [brother-in-law],
1962-1965
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 4.1 |
Letters from Peter Hare during a trip to Ireland to
Jane Perry Jopling Hare,
July 1955
|
|
|
Also includes newspaper clippings of Jane Hare's obituary, June 21, 1975. |
||
| 4.2-4.5 |
Letters from parents Michael Meredith Hare and Jane
Perry Jopling Hare,
1951-1957,
1961-1973,
undated
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.3 |
William H. Hare [great uncle],
1953-1954
|
|
| 3.4 |
Montgomery Hare [uncle],
1953-1984,
undated
|
|
| 3.5 |
Constance Parsons Hare (Mrs. Montgomery
Hare)[grandmother],
1953-1956
|
|
| 3.6 |
Miscellaneous family correspondence & clippings,
1962-1998,
undated
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.7 |
Miscellaneous correspondence from friends,
1954-2006
|
|
| 5.1 |
Groton School,
1953-1976
|
|
|
Includes photograph from Peter's 20th reunion in May, 1973. |
||
| 5.2 |
Yale,
1954-1983
|
|
| 5.3 |
Sheldon, Wilmon H. (Yale Professor),
1960-1962
|
|
| 5.4 |
Dissertation,
1960-1961,
1980
|
|
| 5.5 |
Job search,
1962
|
|
| 5.6 |
Madden, Edward H.,
1964-2005
|
|
|
Includes photo, vita, correspondence, essays, and memorial for Peter Hare's longtime friend and colleague from the University at Buffalo. |
||
|
II. University at Buffalo,
1955-2005 |
||
|
Contains correspondence, writings, memorabilia from Peter Hare's professional career, in particular materials from when he was chair of the Philosophy Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. |
||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 6.1 | Photos, clippings, department brochures, conference posters, 1973-2000 | |
| 6.2 | Correspondence, department memos, etc. 1967-1997, undated | |
| 6.3 | Resignation as chair, 1975 | |
| 6.4 | Correspondence and notes, personal, 1964-2005 | |
| 6.5 | Correspondence, The Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society journal 1993-2005 | |
| 6.6 | General Education Committee, clippings, 1979-1981 | |
| 6.7 | Donations to the University at Buffalo, 1976-2003 | |
| 6.8 | Miscellaneous clippngs, 1979-1981 | |
| 6.9 | Professional organizations, 1971-1999 | |
| 6.10 | Publications of Peter H. Hare, 1955-1988 | |
|
III. Miscellaneous
1953-1992 |
||
|
Contains biographical material, miscellaneous writings, files, and memorabilia from Peter Hare. Of particular note are the genealogical writings by his father, Michael M. Hare. |
||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 6.11 | Biographical, 1968-2001 | |
|
Includes photo, passport, vita, autobiographical statements, legal separation agreement, clippings, correspondence. |
||
| 6.12-6.13 | Miscellaneous writings, undated | |
|
Includes some typewritten genealogical essays and other biographical essays perhaps written in Peter Hare's early years, some handwritten notes and a draft essay on feminism dated 1986. |
||
| 6.14 | Car rental fraud, 1974 | |
| 6.15 | Genealogical writings of Michael Meredith Hare, 1962 | |
| 6.16 | Michael Meredith Hare, 1953-1975 | |
|
Includes brochures and correspondence regarding the Wisconsin Union Theatre designed by M.M. Hare, a photograph of his grave in Stow, England, and an April 1953 journal titled, College and University Business which contains an article by M.M. Hare, "Valparaiso Union - A Study of Costs and Architectural Form." |
||
| 6.17 | Miscellaneous, 1974-1999 | |
| 6.18 | Susan Howe, 2000-1006, undated | |
|
IV. Daphne Kean Hare
1962-1997 |
||
|
Contains correspondence to Daphne Kean Hare from friends and her mother Lucille Lawrence Kean, and materials kept by Peter Hare about Daphne following her death. |
||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 7.1 | Letters from friends, 1962-1967 | |
| 7.2-7.3 | Letters from Lucille Lawrence Kean, 1962-1965 | |
| 7.4 | Miscellaneous clippings, letters, cards, 1971-1997 | |
| 7.5 | Soviet Union, 1984-1995 | |
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
