Manuscripts
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 Benét, 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.Materials created by US presidents in this collection include: James Buchanan autograph letter signed to John Buchanan Floyd, 1858 July 27; Ulysses S. Grant document signed appointment of William Maxwell Wood as medical director of US Navy, 1871 May 23; Benjamin Harrison signature on White House calling card, approximately 1890; Rutherford B. Hayes autograph note signed to Carl Schurz, approximately 1877-1881; threee Theodore Roosevelt letters to Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1897-1898; Woodrow Wilson letter to Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1913 January 6; Woodrow Wilson letter signed to Sara Bard (Field) Wood, 1916 June 16.
