This series contains Ruth Le Prade’s personal papers, including her personal correspondence, papers documenting her son’s life and service in the Army during World War II, Le Prade’s campaign to get Wesley Robert Wells’s death sentence commuted or pardoned, typescripts and manuscripts of her prose and poetry, her notebooks and other manuscript notes, photographs, ephemera, financial and legal records, newspaper and magazine clippings (as well as whole issues of newspapers, particularly the Los Angeles Tribune), scrapbooks, and the records pertaining to the operation of the Poets Garden and the events Le Prade held there.