Scope and Content From the Series: 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...

Scope and Content From the Sub-Series:

This series contains Ruth Le Prade’s correspondence with people who are not represented at the series level, her address books and address cards, and mailings and solicitations Le Prade received from various organizations with which she was involved. Her correspondents include Lucy Lang, Marcelle Reber, Jack Gormley, Gloria Reidel and her family, Dale Sheets and Tess tum Suden.