Charles and Erskine Wood Family Collection
This collections includes over 300 images from the family papers of Charles Erskine Scott Wood and his son Erskine Wood. The collection includes family photographs, scrapbooks, original C.E.S. Wood watercolors and sketches, and selected manuscript material.
"An Affair to Remember"
Newspaper article about the relationship between C.E.S. Wood and Sara Bard Field. Also contains a photograph of the wedding of Sara Bard Field's daughter Katherine to James Caldwell.
January 16, 1985
Affidavit of Erskine Wood's Birth
Nanny Moale Wood verifies that she was present at her son's birth.
1929-03-27
"Chief Joseph's speech"
Letter to the editor in response to Don Holm's debunking of Chief Joseph's speech.
February 20, 1972
"Debunking of Chief Joseph labeled 'distortion of history'"
Letter to the editor regarding Don Holm's debunking of Chief Joseph's speech.
February 20, 1972
"'Joseph myth' debunker defends story"
Letter in response to the two letters refuting Don Holm's debunking of Chief Joseph's speech.
March 26, 1972
"Son of Lt. Wood Asserts Joseph Quotes Correctly"
Erskine Wood refutes Mark Brown's argument that Joseph's speech is fraudulent.
March 5, 1967
Condolence letter to Erskine Wood from Oregon Supreme Court
February 1, 1944
CES Wood and Sara Bard Field
1920-12
Erskine Wood at Harvard
1898~
Erskine Wood's Harvard Diploma
States that Erskine Wood graduated with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1901.
1912-04-22
Nan Wood Honeyman's Obituary
December 13, 1970
Report of Chief Joseph's Surrender
Except from the report of the Secretary of War containing account of Chief Joseph's surrender and his speech.
Erskine Wood Memorial Article
Titled "Noted attorney Wood dies"
"'Grande dame' Nanny Wood a favorite of Portland society"
Article on Nanny Moale Wood.
February 15, 2004
"Northwest history, personal as well as public"
Review of Erskine's memoir, "Days with Chief Joseph."
Letter to CES Wood from Theodore Roosevelt
1901-08-27
