Wood (C. E. S.) Papers Addenda, 1897-1970, bulk 1912-1940

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Summary

Title:
C. E. S. Wood papers addenda
Dates:
1897-1970, bulk 1912-1940
Creators:
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944 and Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974
Abstract:
A collection of material related to the life and work of C. E. S. Wood and Sara Bard (Field) Wood.
Extent:
53 Linear Feet (44 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. C. E. S. Wood papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Katherine Field Ehrgott Caldwell, July 1993.
Processing information:

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.

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series: 1. Manuscripts; 2. Correspondence; 3. Diaries, scrapbooks, business papers, printed material, photographs, clippings, and ephemera.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-02-09 12:58:50 -0800 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. C. E. S. Wood papers addenda, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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