Series I: Papers

Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains published poetry, magazine and newspaper articles, and a book. Also included are unpublished poems and short stories and an unpublished book-length manuscript entitled, A Permanent Home. The thematic focus of the writing is life in western Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s including the Dust Bowl period.

Dates

1977 - 2002

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.