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Description: The correspondence is filed alphabetically by author and includes letters related to the personal and professional lives of C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard (Field) Wood. Subjects include his army career, the development of eastern Oregon, her work for women's suffrage, their work for liberal causes, and thier cultural and literary circles. This material also includes manuscripts by other authors as well as material related to William Maxwell Wood.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1829-1980.
Call number: mssWD
Creator: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott (1852-1944)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sara Bard Field Wood 1947-1969.

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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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The printed material includes publications, articles, clippings and other printed material related to C. E. S. Wood, Sara Bard (Field) Wood and others.

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