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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: C. E. S. Wood papers addenda
Creator:
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott,
1852-1944
Creator:
Field, Sara Bard,
1882-1974
Identifier/Call Number: mssWDaddenda
Physical Description:
53 Linear Feet
(44 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1897-1970
Date (bulk): 1912-1940
Abstract: A collection of material related to the
life and work of C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard (Field) Wood.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. C. E. S. Wood papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Katherine Field Ehrgott Caldwell, July 1993.
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.
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 Benét, 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.
Processed by Virginia Rust, Peter Blodgett, and Jennifer L. Martinez, 1995-2000. In 2021,
Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy in-house summary report.
Arranged in the following series: 1. Manuscripts; 2. Correspondence; 3. Diaries,
scrapbooks, business papers, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
Former call number: mssWD Addenda Boxes 1-44.
C. E. S. Wood papers (1829-1980), mssWD.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Artists -- United States
Authors, American -- 19th century
Authors -- 20th century
Labor -- United States
Women -- Suffrage -- United
States
Women's rights -- United States --
History
Oregon -- History -- 1859-
Diaries -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- 20th century
Photographs -- 20th century
Scrapbooks -- 20th century
Benét, William Rose,
1886-1950
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938
Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
Jeffers, Una, 1884 or 1885-1950
McNamara, James B. (James
Barnabas), 1882-1941
McNamara, John Joseph
Parton, Mary
Field
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963
Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939
Steffens, Lincoln,
1866-1936
Taggard, Genevieve, 1894-1948
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919
Young, Ella,
1867-1956