Ruiz de Conde, Justina: Salinas - Correspondence, 1948 - 1951

Papers of Justina Ruiz de Conde consist of 1.4 linear feet of records. Justina Ruiz de Conde transferred the initial segment of her papers to the archives along with some records of the Spanish Department. Other papers came in several accessions and scattered gifts, primarily between 1976 and 1979. (See the list of accessions at the beginning of the finding aid.).

Justina Ruiz de Conde arranged the papers before donating them. Some records of the Spanish Department were separated from Mrs. Ruiz de Conde's papers by the Archives staff during initial processing by an Archives student worker in 1981.

In 2007 the papers were reprocessed by Amy Stimac. Additional Spanish Department records were separated from Justina Ruiz de Conde's Papers during this reprocessing, and placed in the 3L Spanish Department series. These included: correspondence regarding the appointment of both Pedro Salinas and Jorge Guillén to positions at Wellesley, lectures and other papers of Salinas and Guillén, departmental material related to the Hispanic Society of America, departmental records of the Huntington and Sanborn Funds, materials relating to the International Institute for Girls in Spain, and material relating to the departmental publication of Estudios Hispánicos.

When this collection was reprocessed in 2007 items whose restrictions had expired were placed in unrestricted boxes. Restricted departmental records found in this series were moved to the restricted portion of 3L Spanish Department records.

Because they were personal letters, not pertaining to departmental business, one folder of Consuelo Berges letters previously in 3L Spanish Department records were moved to Justina Ruiz de Conde Papers.

Justina Ruiz de Conde Papers consist of articles, class notes, correspondence concerning other Wellesley faculty, students and noted Spanish authors. Also included are drafts, correspondence and information concerning books written by Mrs. Ruiz de Conde, information regarding the Spanish Association of University Women and Asociación Auxiliar del Niño. An index of correspondents is provided. Notable correspondents include Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, and Thorton Wilder.

Records of the Spanish Department should be consulted in conjunction with Ruiz de Conde's Papers.