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Sara Wood Smith collection of Charles Erskine Scott Wood poetry and political ephemera


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    Poetry dedicated to Sara Field Caldwell

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains a book of handwritten poetry dedicated to Sara Field Caldwell, granddaughter of Charles Erskine Scott (C.E.S) Wood and his wife Sara Bard Field. Most of the poems were written by C.E.S. Wood but the book also inlcudes notes and poems from other family members including Sara Bard Field. Also included are four socialist political pamphlets from the 1910s to 1930s.

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    Socialist political pamphlets

    Manuscripts

    This collection contains a book of handwritten poetry dedicated to Sara Field Caldwell, granddaughter of Charles Erskine Scott (C.E.S) Wood and his wife Sara Bard Field. Most of the poems were written by C.E.S. Wood but the book also inlcudes notes and poems from other family members including Sara Bard Field. Also included are four socialist political pamphlets from the 1910s to 1930s.

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    Letters to Sara Field Caldwell

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    Group of letters and ephemera to Sara Field Caldwell from Sara Bard Field, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and Katherine Caldwell. Many of the letters are written on letterhead from "The Cats," Field and Wood's house in Los Gatos, California, and contain sketches.

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    C.E.S. Wood papers, (bulk 1870-1940)

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    A collection of approximately 30,000 items which consists of letters, manuscripts, documents, diaries, sketches, photographs, printed material, and scrapbooks related to the lives and work of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood. The collection includes material about William Maxwell Wood (1809-1880), C.E.S. Wood's father; papers from C. E. S. Wood's army career, including materials from West Point, Alaska, and the Indian campaigns in the Pacific Northwest; C. E. S. Wood's activities in the development of eastern Oregon (note: there are no papers belonging to Wood's law office); Sara Bard Field's reports on the McNamara case, her life in San Francisco and her associations with journalists, labor leaders, Soviet sympathizers, pacifists, and artists; materials related to Sara Bard Field's work for woman suffrage and women's rights; and C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard Field Wood's cultural circle, including letters from other writers, critics, publishers, social reformers, artists, sculptors, theatrical figures and musicians. Persons represented in the collection include politicians, journalists, cultural leaders, artists, suffragists, authors, and musicians: Charles Altschul, Roger Nash Baldwin, Alva Belmont, Albert M. Bender, William Rose Beňt, Henriette de S. Blanding, Alfred Brennan, Maurice Browne, George De Forest Brush, Beniamino Bufano, Witter Bynner, Bennett Cerf, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Clarence Darrow, Kenneth Durant, Max Eastman, Gilson Gardner, Inez Haynes Gillmore, William Hanley, Walter Morris Hart, Childe Hassam, Nan Wood Honeyman, O.O. Howard, Robinson Jeffers, Willard Maas, Alexander Meiklejohn, Eugene Meyer, Josephine Miles, Harriet Monroe, Richard L. Neuberger, Frederick O'Brien, Mrs. Fremont Older, Fremont Older, Lemuel Parton, Alice Paul, Lute Pease, Louis Freeland Post, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Alexander Phimister Proctor, John W. Redington, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Muriel Rukeyser, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Theodore Spiering, Lincoln Steffens, Walter Steilberg, Doris Stevens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Mabel Vernon, Langdon Warner, Olin Levi Warner, Julian Alden Weir, Marie de L. Welch, George P. West, Frances G. Wickes, Ella Winter, Emma Wold, Erskine Wood, Art Young, and Ella Young.

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    C.E.S. Wood papers addenda, (bulk 1912-1940)

    Manuscripts

    A collection of approximately 1,900 items which consists of manuscripts by C. E. S. Wood and his wife, Sara Bard Field, as well as correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, business papers, photographs, printed materials, four audio cassette tapes, and ephemera. Subject matter represented in the collection includes labor (including the McNamara trial and Clarence Darrow), women's suffrage, Oregon, and the American artists Childe Hassam, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and J. Alden Weir. Persons represented in the collection include, among others, William Rose Beňt, Childe Hassam, Una Call Kuster Jeffers, Mary Field Parton, John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, Lincoln Steffens, Genevieve Taggard, Mark Van Doren, Julian Alden Weir, and Ella Young.

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    Sti-W; Ephemera/Photographs

    Manuscripts

    This box includes: Stillman, J. M., N.D. (1 piece to George Sterling) Tabbs, John B., 1903 (1 piece to George Sterling) Teasdale, Sara, 1914 (1 piece to George Sterling) Taggard, Genevieve, 1924 (4 pieces to George Sterling) Towne, Charles Hanson, 1925 (1 piece to George Sterling) W., J. F., N.D. (1 piece to George Sterling) Van Doran, Mark, 1926 (2 pieces to George Sterling) Wallace, Grace, Poems (5 pieces) Williams, B. W., The Seats of the Mighty(1 piece) Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1914 (5 pieces to George Sterling) Welch, Marie De La, 1926 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wells, H. G., 1904 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wheelock, John Hall, 1914 (3 pieces to George Sterling) White, Edward L., 19 (4 pieces to George Sterling) Wilshire, Gaylord, 1926 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wilson, H. L., 1916 (1 piece to George Sterling) Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1925 (2 pieces to George Sterling) Wright, Willard, 1919 (3 pieces to George Sterling) Wurdemann, Audrey, Poems (2 pieces) Wurdemann, Meek's Ranch, manuscript (2 pieces) Wurdemann, Revenge, manuscript (1 piece)

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