Accession 02-0078 contains documents relating to the personal and professional lives of Ruth and Norman Brittin. It is divided into five series: Correspondence, Published and Unpublished Works, Teaching Materials, University and Personal Documents, and Photographs. It contains personal and business correspondence regarding their teaching careers at Auburn, information on the life and death Florence Mellor Brittin, Norman’s first wife, teaching abroad in Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, letters to and from their children, documents relating to the publication of Experiment, a literary journal, letters from jobs Norman had in Utah, and documents relating to Ruth Brittin’s Red Cross service in Palestine and the Sudan during World War II. It also contains photographs of the Brittin family and Ruth’s World War II experience.

Accession 03-0049 contains information relating to the life and writing career of Ruth Lowe Brittin. It contains correspondence from her wartime years and her retirement years. The accession also contains a manuscript of her unpublished work entitled Any Nigger’ll Do: The Treatment of Racial Lynchings in American Fiction by Black and White Writers, unpublished short stories, poems, and copies of her contributions to a variety of publications.