Correspondence, May 19-29, 1945

File — Box: 4, Folder: 6

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains approximately 400 mostly handwritten (some typed) letters primarily between Bernard Alexander Kellner (b. 1892) and his wife, Ruth Dorcas Greenlee (Kellner) (b. 1898). Correspondence dates from World War I when their courtship began to their marriage June 14, 1920; starts again during WWII (1941-1946) and continues during the Korean War (1951-1952). Later correspondence includes their children. Subjects include daily events such as Greenlee's teaching assignments or duties, family matters, influenza and polio epidemics, weather, wartime costs and rationing and local and national events.

Dates

May 19-29, 1945

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.