| Code | DS/UK/2279 |
| Dates | 1903-1981 |
| Person Name | Wind, née Hatch; Ruth (1903-1981) |
| Surname | Wind, née Hatch |
| Forenames | Ruth |
| Activity | Teacher, translator, weaver, and writer; former wife of Edgar Wind. |
| Relationships | Wife to Edgar Wind, m.1926, div. 1934; partner to Kent Hyde (1939-); partner to Ruth 'Rudy' Babcock (affair, ca. 1950s) |
| History | Moved to Hamburg after meeting Edgar Wind at Chapel Hill, UNC (1926); spent four months volunteering her services as a translator at the Warburg (1930-1931); stayed in Germany until 1934 (after Edgar's departure in 1933) and carried on an affair with a Jewish doctor named Dena; returns to the United States, attends Moody Bible Institute (1939); left to work as a missionary with Jewish immigrants in Cincinatti; married a Mr. Reid and moved to Northern California with him and his sister (late 1930s); met Kent Hyde at Berkeley, where Hyde was working as a lab technician and Ruth was reading to blind students for extra money (1939); owned and operated a weaving shop called Reid-Hyde Handweaving in San Francisco [1950s]; active involvement in lesbian ommunity [1970s-1980s]. |
| Source | Ruth Reid and Kent Hyde papers, 1920-2001 (UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library)
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA
Reid, Ruth 'Wife of a Lesbian', ed. and added to by Jacquelyn Marie (2006)
Schäfer, Hans-Michael, 'Die Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg' (Berlin: Logos, 2003)
'Bericht über die Tätigkeit der Bibliothek in den Jahren 1930 und 1931' [1932] (Warburg Institute Archive, V.2.3.1.6., Annual Reports) |
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