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C. E. S. Wood Papers Msswd http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z60w92 No online items C. E. S. Wood Papers mssWD Gayle Richardson The Huntington Library January 2021 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org C. E. S. Wood Papers mssWD mssWD 1 Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library Title: C. E. S. Wood papers Creator: Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944 Creator: Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974 Identifier/Call Number: mssWD Physical Description: 365 Linear Feet(312 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 2 rolls) Date (inclusive): 1829-1980 Date (bulk): 1870-1940 Abstract: A collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and ephemera related to the life and work of soldier, lawyer, and author Charles Erskine Scott Wood and his wife Sara Bard Field Wood, poet, suffragist, and author. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. C. E. S. Wood papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Immediate Source of Acquisition Gifts of Sara Bard Field Wood, 1947-1969; gift of Edwin Grabhorn, November 1946; gift of Mrs. G. Kirkham Smith, September 1947; gift of Eliza Bryson Wood Smith, September 1947; gifts of Nan Wood Honeyman, 1949-1958; gift of James D. Hart, June 1949; gift of Jacob C. Weinstein, March 1954; gifts of Vanguard Press, 1955 and 1989; gift of Lute Pease, 1956; gift of Mrs. Kent Robinson, April 1956; gift of Mary Gow Scott, 1960; gifts of Mrs. James Caldwell, 1974-1978; gift of Mrs. William M. Wood IV, February 1978; gift of Erskine Wood, April 1980; gift of Ansel Adams Archive, December 1980; gift of Elizabeth Elkus, April 1980; gift of John Miller, January 1985; purchased from Doris Harris; gift of Nan S. Johns, 1989. Biographical / Historical Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852-1944) was a U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1874, he became an aide to General O.O. Howard in 1877, serving with him in the Pacific Northwest during the Bannock and Paiute and Nez Percé Indian wars. He later attended Columbia University, obtained his law degree, and established a practice of maritime and corporation law in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his successful law practice, Wood painted, wrote, was a champion of social justice, and liberal causes. Wood married Nanny Moale Smith (-1933) in 1878 and they had three sons and two daughters: Erskine Wood, Max Wood, Berwick Wood, Nan (Wood) Honeyman, and Lisa Wood. In 1910 he met Sara Bard Field (1882-1974), who was campaigning for women's suffrage in Oregon. Field married Albert Ehrgott in 1900 and they had two children: Albert Field Ehrgott and Katherine (Ehrgott) Caldwell; the couple was divorced in 1914. Field was a poet, suffragist, and author; professionally she always used her maiden name Sara Bard Field. Wood and Field established a home together in 1917 (they married in 1938); "The Cats," their home near Los Gatos, California, became a center of art, music, and culture. Wood's publications include The poet in the desert (1915) and Heavenly discourse (1927), as well as various articles for the Pacific monthly and Century magazines. Scope and Contents 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, C. E. S. Wood Papers mssWD mssWD 2 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. Processing Information Processed by Virginia Rust, circa 1985. In 2021, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy in-house summary report. Arrangement Organized in the following series: 1. Manuscripts by C. E.S. Wood; 2. Manuscripts by Sara Bard Field; 3. Correspondence and manuscripts by other authors; 4. Business papers, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and ephemera; 5. Printed material. General Former call number: mssWD Boxes 1-312. Related Materials C. E. S. Wood papers addenda (1897-1970), mssWDaddenda. Subjects and Indexing Terms Artists -- United States Authors, American -- 19th century Authors, American -- 20th century Bannock Indians Wars, 1878 Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Government relations Indians of North America -- Wars -- Northwest, Pacific Labor -- United States Nez Percé Indians -- Wars, 1877 Paiute Indians -- Wars Poets, American Women -- Suffrage -- United States Women's rights -- United States -- History Working class -- United States Alaska -- Description and travel Oregon -- History -- 1859- Diaries -- 19th century Diaries -- 20th century Letters (correspondence) -- 19th century Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century Manuscripts -- 19th century Manuscripts -- 20th century Photographs -- 19th century Photographs -- 20th century Poems -- 19th century Poems -- 20th century Scrapbooks -- 19th century Scrapbooks -- 20th century Altschul, Charles, 1857-1927 Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 C. E. S. Wood Papers mssWD mssWD 3 Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941 Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950 Blanding, Henriette de S., 1891-1973 Brennan, Alfred, 1853-1921 Browne, Maurice, 1884-1961 Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941 Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970 Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 Durant, Kenneth Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 Gardner, Gilson, 1869-1935 Gillmore, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970 Hanley, William Hart, Walter Morris, 1872-1964 Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Honeyman, Nan Wood, 1881-1970 Howard, O.O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962 Maas, Willard Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964 Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959 Miles, Josephine, 1911-1985 Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis), 1912-1960 O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 Older, Fremont, 1856-1935 Older, Fremont, Mrs., 1875-1968 Parton, Lemuel, -1943 Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 Pease, Lute, 1869-1963 Post, Louis F. (Louis Freeland), 1849-1928 Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1860-1950 Redington, John W., 1851-1935 Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933 Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917 Spiering, Theodore, 1871-1925 Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936 Steilberg, Walter, 1886-1974 Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963 Taggard, Genevieve, 1894-1948 Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 C. E. S. Wood Papers mssWD mssWD 4 Vernon, Mabel Warner, Langdon, 1881-1955 Warner, Olin Levi, 1844-1896 Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919 Welch, Marie de L. (Marie de Laveaga), 1905-1974 West, George P. Wickes, Frances G. (Frances Gillespy), 1875-1967 Winter, Ella Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 Wood, Erskine Wood, William Maxwell, 1809-1880 Young, Art, 1866-1943 Young, Ella, 1867-1956 United States. Army -- History -- 19th century United States. Army -- Officers Charles Erskine Scott Wood manuscripts Scope and Contents This material includes manuscripts of books, poetry, short stories, drama, speeches, articles, and other prose work (including numerous drafts and revisions).
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