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Eva Emery Dye Papers, 1776-1997
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Dye, Eva Emery, 1855-1947
- Title
- Eva Emery Dye Papers
- Dates
- 1776-1997 (inclusive)17761997
1890-1940 (bulk)18901940 - Quantity
- 11.5 linear ft. (15 document cases,1 oversize flat box, 1 Oversize B-1 (16x20) folder, 1 Oversize A (11x14) folder, 1 reel of microfilm
- Collection Number
- Mss 1089
- Summary
- The papers of one of Oregon's most prominent literary figures, who popularized Oregon Country history and Sacajawea as a heroine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Papers (1776-1997) consist of correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, literary journal, research notes, and scrapbooks. The collection also includes family papers of Charles and Eva Emery Dye and their children.
- Repository
-
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
Eva Lucinda Emery Dye (1855-1947) popularized Oregon Country history for children and adults, and in the process, she made Sacajawea a heroine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the eyes of the public. She was born in Prophetstown, Illinois, to Cyrus Emery and Caroline Trafton Emery. Her teachers were so impressed with her stories, poems, and songs that they encouraged her to send them to area newspapers. She started her career as a published writer as a teenager under the pen name, Jennie Juniper, with poems, stories, and essays in these newspapers.
Eva began teaching at the age of 15 to earn money to attend Oberlin College and worked as a teacher off-and-on throughout her college years. At Oberlin, she was elected literary editor of the Oberlin Review, studied the Classics, and won honors in oratorical contests. She graduated as class valedictorian with a bachelor of arts degree, and a week after graduation, on July 13, 1882, she married an Oberlin classmate, Charles Henry Dye (1856-1929).
The couple both taught school at Sidney, Iowa, and then moved to Franklin, Nebraska, where Charles was headmaster of the Franklin Academy. During this time, both continued their academic careers at Oberlin, where Eva received a master of arts degree in 1887. Charles completed his master's degree in 1888 and entered the University of Iowa Law School, where he completed his degree in 1889. Charles opened a law office in Madison, South Dakota, and Eva taught at the State Normal School there.
In July 1890, Charles and Eva Dye moved to Oregon City, Oregon, where he practiced law and Eva obtained a teaching position. Charles was appointed Deputy District Attorney for Oregon City, and he won a seat in the Oregon State House of Representatives. They built a home at 902 Jefferson Street, where they spent the rest of their lives.
Eva Emery Dye began researching and writing Oregon history soon after she arrived in Oregon City. One of her earliest published pieces on the subject was a bulletin in the University of Oregon's Historical Series, "The Hudson's Bay Company regime in the Oregon country" (1898). She produced a book for children and three historical novels set in the Oregon Country which went into multiple printings and remained popular for decades. During her lifetime she published: Stories of Oregon, 1900; McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 1900; The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark, 1902; McDonald of Oregon: A Tale of Two Shores, 1906; and The Soul of America: An Oregon Iliad, 1934. She wrote McDonald of Oregon at the request of its central figure, Ranald Macdonald (his spelling of his name). In addition, she wrote a book on Hawaiian history, A Royal Romance, which remained unpublished at the time of her death. Although she wrote her books in novel form, Dye took pride in making them as authentic as her historical research could achieve.
Eva Emery Dye also contributed her literary talents to at least two other prominent publications: the chapter, "Historical Sketch of Oregon City" in Portland, Oregon: Its History and Builders by Joseph Gaston, 1911, and the text for photographer Benjamin Gifford's photogravure portfolio, Art Work of Portland, Mt. Hood and the Columbia River, 1912.
In addition to writing books, numerous articles, and other shorter pieces, Dye was in demand as a speaker by local, regional, and national organizations. With her husband, Charles, she was active in church, community, and political affairs in Oregon City and Clackamas County. They jointly founded the Willamette Valley Chautauqua at Gladstone Park, actively supported the First Congregational Church at Oregon City, and were members of the Republican Party. Eva, with her husband's full support, took an active role in the woman's suffrage movement, the Sacajawea Statue Association (to erect a statue at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905), and the effort to preserve the John McLoughlin House at Oregon City through the McLoughlin Memorial Association. The Sacajawea Statue became a permanent fixture in Washington Park at Portland, Oregon, and the McLoughlin House a popular attraction in Oregon City.
Eva Emery Dye received many honors during her lifetime, including an honorary doctor of literature degree from Oregon State College (Oregon State University), 1930, and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Portland, 1939. Her 80th birthday was declared Eva Emery Dye Day in Oregon City.
Charles and Eva Emery Dye had four children: Emery Charles Dye (1884-?), Trafton Mickelwait Dye (1886-1974), Everett Willoughby Dye (1896-1988), and Charlotte Evangeline (Eva) Dye Hutchinson (1897-1972). Emery suffered a mental breakdown in young manhood and was confined to a state institution for much of his life. Trafton Dye became a successful attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, where he and his wife Mary raised their family. Everett Dye worked as an engineer for steel companies in Cleveland Ohio, where he and his wife, Harriet, raised their family. Evangeline (Eva) Dye married Richard Earl Hutchinson, and the family made their permanent home in California.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Eva Emery Dye Papers (1776-1997) consist of correspondence, ephemera, a literary journal, manuscripts, research notes, and scrapbooks relating to Eva Emery Dye's career as an author and her interest in Oregon history topics, including pioneers, Lewis and Clark, John McLoughlin, Ranald MacDonald, and the Hudson's Bay Company. She also became interested in Hawaiian history through a family connection. The collection includes the family papers of Charles and Eva Emery Dye and their children, Emery Dye, Eva Dye Hutchinson, Everett W. Dye, and Trafton M. Dye, as well as the reminiscences of Eva's father, Cyrus Emery, and a genealogy of the Charles Dye and Eva Emery Dye family.
Series A includes incoming and outgoing correspondence (except family correspondence). The bulk of it relates to Eva Emery Dye's research for her books. In the 1890s, she created questionnaires and sent them to participants in Oregon country's early history and their descendants. This often elicited lengthy letters and reminiscences and some on-going correspondence. She also obtained handwritten or typescript transcriptions from various sources of early letters related to her research interests. The correspondence includes smaller quantities of letters from friends, acquaintances, those requesting information from her or her services as a speaker, and mail from readers of her books and articles. Most of the correspondence is incoming; copies of only a small part of her outgoing correspondence survives in the collection. Much of this correspondence is in typescript since she had use of a typewriter, first at her husband's law office and later at home, and some of her typing also was done by her husband's secretaries.
Also included in Series A is topical correspondence, reflecting Eva Emery Dye's many activities. These included the Willamette Valley Chautauqua at Gladstone Park, Oregon, which she founded and led for many years; her research on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which led her to visit manuscript repositories around the country and put her into contact with scholars of the expedition and descendants of the famous explorers; the Sacajawea Statue Association, which she founded and served as president to promote the creation of a statue for the 1905 centennial world's fair at Portland; and woman's suffrage, which she championed. The collection includes her first voter registration certificate, dated July 1913, and her correspondence with state and national figures involved in the movement.
Series B and Series C contain biographical sketches of Eva Emery Dye, written by her and others; manuscripts for books, articles, and speeches, as well as research notes and copies of materials written by others that she used in her writing; a literary journal; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, including one containing her poems and essays published in newspapers under her early pen name, Jennie Juniper.
The Charles H. Dye and Eva Emery Dye Family Papers in Series D contain extensive correspondence among the Dyes and their children. Beginning in 1920, when all the children were out on their own, Charles and Eva wrote group letters almost weekly, Eva carried on the practice after her husband's death even as her eyesight began to fail in old age. In addition, they wrote individual letters, most notably Charles to Everett and Eva Emery to Eva Dye Hutchinson. In addition to home and family news, the letters share news of Oregon City, the people that Charles and Eva met through their work, and commentary on politics, religion, social issues, and events of the wider world. The collection also includes Everett's correspondence with friends and relatives outside the immediate family.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Most of the incoming correspondence related to Eva Emery Dye's research on Lewis and Clark (Series A, Subseries 2) is available on microfilm at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Preservation photocopies have been made of some fragile materials. Researchers will be asked to use these copies instead of the originals whenever possible.
Restrictions on Use
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any publication use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Preferred Citation
Eva Emery Dye Papers, Mss1089, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series A: Eva Emery Dye's Correspondence, 1776-1967 (pages 8-17)
- Series B: Eva Emery Dye's Manuscripts, 1840-1940 (pages 17-26)
- Series C: Eva Emery Dye's Research Materials, 1839-1931 (pages 26-29)
- Series D: Charles and Eva Emery Dye Family Papers, 1857-1997 (pages 29-33)
Custodial History
Eva Emery Dye donated her professional correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials, along with photographs, books, serials, and posters, to the Oregon Historical Society during her lifetime. A descendant, Charles R. Hutchinson, donated family correspondence and a genealogy in 1997.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Eva Emery Dye (Accession nos. 246, 293, 377, and 8297). Gift of Charles R. Hutchinson, 1997 (Accession no. 23609).
Processing Note
The collection was assembled piecemeal over time as it was donated. At one time, the family papers were designated Mss1089-1. They are now Series D of Mss1089. Initial processing resulted in preparation of an inventory. The final processing and guide was completed in 2005
Separated Materials
The Eva Emery Dye Photographs Collection (Organized Lot 1017), plus a large collection of books, serials, and World War I posters were separated from the Eva Emery Dye Papers and are in various collections at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Letters from Eva Emery Dye are contained in several other manuscript collections at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library and the University of Oregon Library Special Collections.
In 1939, Eva Emery Dye donated her handwritten manuscript for McLoughlin and Old Oregon to the University of Oregon Library, where it is located in the Manuscript Collections (F813 D986).
Bibliography
Browne, Sheri Bartlett. Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2004.Related Materials
A correspondents' list, with numbers, dates, and topics of letters, is available in hard copy at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library for most of the correspondence in Series A.
The Mary Carr Moore Collection (Collection 38) at the University of California Los Angeles Music Library contains materials related to her opera, Narcissa, which was based on Eva Emery Dye's book, McLoughlin and Old Oregon.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series A: Eva Emery Dye's Correspondence, 1776-1942Return to Top
This series includes Eva Emery Dye's correspondence except for that with her family. The series is organized into the following subseries: 1) Incoming Correspondence, 2) Incoming Correspondence, Topical), and 3) Outgoing Correspondence. Note that some outgoing correspondence is located in Subseries 2 of this series and in Series B. This arrangement follows Eva Emery Dye's original ordering of her papers.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Sub-series 1: Incoming
Correspondence
The correspondence in this subseries primarily relates to Eva
Emery Dye's historical research and publications, as well as requests for
appearances. Some of these letters are typed or handwritten transcripts of
letters in private ownership or in research institutions, as well as some
transcriptions of the originals in this subseries that Dye made for her
research projects. The subseries also includes a smaller quantity of letters
from friends, fellow Oberlin College alumni, and acquaintances on other
subjects. These include a small amount of correspondence by and about Opal
Whiteley, the famous author of The Story of Opal: The
Journal of an Understanding Heart. The letters are arranged
alphabetically by last names of correspondents, and chronologically there
under. Correspondents represented are listed alphabetically in the content
notes for each folder.
|
1845-1942 | |
Box/Folder | ||
1/1 | A (except
Applegate)
A.C. McClurg & Co., Bethenia Owens Adair, Arthur C.
Alexander, Dudley Allen, Margaret Allen, and author unidentified (re.Joseph
Bisonette).
|
1891-1937 |
Applegate Family |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/2 | Jesse Applegate |
1845-1846 |
1/3 | Lillian Gertrude
Applegate |
1904-1927 |
1/4 | Oliver Cromwell
Applegate |
1904-1933 |
Box/Folder | ||
1/5 | B (except Boone)
C.B. Bagley, Howard M. Ballou (with enclosure from Mary E.
Ordway), Olive Ballou, Amherst W. Barber, Florence M. Barber (with enclosure
from Virginia Applegate), William Batchhelder, H.L. Bates, Kate Stevens Bates,
Newton Beers, J.J. Beeson, Sarah J. Beloy, G.H. Benjamin, Stella H. Bennett,
John S. Bishop, Frances W. Blakeley, Luella Miner Bosworth, Angie Burt Bowden,
J.Q.A. Bowlby, C.J. Brosnan, J.V. Brown (to A.C. McClug & Co.), G. Browne,
Joseph Buchtel, L.C. Burdett, Jasper Sutton Burns, and Henry Buxton.
|
1891-1937 |
Boone Family |
||
Box/Folder | ||
1/6 | Alphonse D. Boone |
1904-1905 |
1/7 | George Luther
Boone |
1904-1906 |
Box/Folder | ||
1/8 | C
Edward H. Cahalin, Henry Carr, Elbert B. Charman, C.
Cartlidge, H. B. Chiniquy, George Spencer Clapham, Samuel Asahel Clarke, D.B.
Colcord, W.H. Colcord, Thomas Condon, A.S. Cone, James M. Cornelison, A.L.
Craig, Paul D. Cranagh, Lulu D. Crandall, Samuel L. Crawford, E.M. Croisan,
George L. Curry, and Norwood L. Curry.
|
1894-1938 |
1/9 | D
Henry A.M. DeChesne, John T. Dizney, Kittie Spargur Douglas,
Carl G. Drury, Saidie Orr Dunbar, William Duncan, and Florence L. Dye.
|
1893-1935 |
1/10 | E
Edwin Eells, Myron Eells, Carolyn E. Eldred, Thomas Lamb
Eliot, William G. Eliot, Jr., Thompson Coit Elliott, Annie C. Ellison, George
Estes, and Elwood Evans.
|
1878-1935 |
1/11 | F
William D. Fenton, J.B. Finley, Leslie E. Fislar, John Flett,
William G. Flett, and William G. Frost and Eleanor M. Frost.
|
1892-1942 |
1/12 | G
Frances H. Galloway, Tirzah Trask Garnier, Joseph Gaston,
Robert M. Gatke, John A. Gilkey, J.K. Gill, Mark W. Gill, W.S. Gilliam, R.E.
Gosnell, John E. Gratice, Daniel Gray, Helen S. Gray, William P. Gray, and Lucy
S. Greene.
|
1893-1927 |
1/13 | H (except Himes and
Huggins)
Granville O. Haller, H.M. Haller, Lillie Harding, H.K. Harris,
M. Douglas Harris, E.T. Hatch, George E. Hatch, Nanne Henry Heaton, Grace
Raymond Hebard, J.S. Helmcken, Harvey Kimball Hines, Ernest Hofer, Rufus
Holman, John B. Horner, John T. Hotchkiss, Mary E. Houck, Laura E. Howey, and
Mary Huerth.
|
1893-1933 |
1/14 | George Himes (Oregon Historical
Society) |
1899-1927 |
1/15 | Anne E.K. Huggins |
1904-1905 |
1/16-17 | Edward Huggins
Preservation photocopies are Folder 17.
|
1899-1905 |
2/1 | J-K
Harriet P. Jackson (Mrs. J.W. Jackson), N.A. Jacobs, J.P.
Jaeger, C.J. Jones, Mrs. C.J. Jones, Hiram Knowles, and C.K. Klum.
|
1892-1921 |
2/2 | L
Mrs. John Lauterman, Leading Women of America, League of
Nations Association, William H. Lee, O.C. Leiter, Sophronia V. Lewelling,
Blanche E. Little, Maria M. Locey, Fred Lockley, John Y. Loden, J.L. Long,
Elizabeth L. Lord, S.A. Lowell, H.S. Lyman, and W.D. Lyman.
|
1898-1938 |
2/3 | M (except Minto, Mac, and
Mc)
Joseph Macqueen, Harriet E. Markey, Lorena H. Marshall,
William Marshall, Helen E. Martin, Cornelia Marvin, F.X. Matthieu, William
Walter Matthews, Vera J. Maxwell (biography of Margaretta Painter), Edmond S.
Meany, Ezra Meeker, H.E. Meseme, Mary B. Milius, Della Crowder Miller, Lincoln
Miller, Lischen M. Miller, Robert A. Miller, Ada B. Millican, John Hipple
Mitchell, Anne Shannon Monroe, Ensley Moore, Lee Moorhouse, Gertrude E. Morley,
Sarah E. Morres, and William A. Mowry.
|
1893-1939 |
2/4 | Ben MacDonald |
1904; 1906 |
2/5 | Ranald Macdonald |
1892 |
2/6 | Mc (except McKay, McKinley, and
McLoughlin)
George W. McBride, Donald F. McCarthy, Angus McDonald, Donald
McDonald, Duncan McDonald, J.H. McMillen, W.H. McMonies, and Charles L.
McNary.
|
1875-1936 |
2/7 | McKay family (Leilah, Thomas
C., and William Cameron) |
1891-1902 |
2/8 | Sarah I. McKinlay |
1891-1892 |
2/9 | David McLoughlin
Son of Dr. John McDonald of Fort Vancouver (Hudson's Bay Co.)
and Oregon City, Oregon
|
1890-1891 |
2/10 | John Minto |
1898-1914 |
2/11 | N-O-P
B.F. Nichols, A.B. Nye, Robert Ornduff, Jr., Francis B. Owen,
Inez Adams Parker, Laura A. Patterson, E.S. Paxson, Guy Fitch Phelps, William
Phillips, Portland Chamber of Commerce, T.W. Potter, L.H. Poujade, Alfred
Powers, Catherine Sager Pringle, and Thomas W. Prosch.
|
1900-1933 |
2/12 | R
Glenn W. Ranck, J.W. Redington, Willard H. Rees, Frank Branch
Riley, G. Collier Robbins, J.R. Robertson, and Donald Ross.
|
1892-1934 |
2/13 | S
Joseph Schafer, E.O.D. Scholefield, M. Fidelia Schuknecht,
Laura Tolman Scott, Leslie Scott, Lulu Drury Scott, Roxa S. Shackelford, W.R.
Shannon, J.W. Shaw, Margaret V. Sherlock, Samuel L. Simpson, Bartlett Sinclair,
Frederick W. Skiff, Alexander H. Smith, E.D. Smith, Grace Smith, Mary Smith,
Silas B. Smith, Harvey G. Starkweather, Helen E. Starrett, Hazard Stevens, Gail
Stubblefield, Arthur J. Sullens, and Olive A. Swallow.
|
1890-1934 |
2/14 | T-U-V
Erma A. Taylor, Joseph N. Teal, Frank Carleton Teck, J.I.
Teesdale, Mary E. Thomas, J.W. Thompson, Jeannie W. Tolmie, R. Toller, Mary
Townsend, Albert Tozier, Lizzie M. Underwood, Platon Vallejo, and Frances
Fuller Victor.
|
1892-1933 |
2/15 | W-X-Y (except Opal
Whiteley)
Harr Wagner, Cyrus H. Walker, Samuel Thompson Walker,
Elizabeth Warren, Ahio J. Watt, Levina Lyon Watt, Whitaker & Ray Company,
Marian A. White, Albert Whitlock, H. Whittmore, James Wickersham, Christina
Williams, J.R. Wilson, Frank H. Woody, L.J. Wright, Edwin F. Wyer, Morrill
Wyman, Sarah J. Wyman, Margaret Wygant, Elizabeth Crawford Yates, and Ida
Yergen.
|
1891-1935 |
2/16 | Opal Whiteley
Includes postcard from Opal Whiteley to C.H. Dye about return
of a newspaper cut used for publicity, 1917, and letters about Opal's
activities in Boston, (including preparation of her diary for publication by
Ellery Sedgewick of the Atlantic Monthly) from
Jessie L. Emery to her cousin, Eva Emery Dye, 1920.
|
1917; 1920 |
Sub-series 2: Incoming Correspondence,
Topical
Correspondence covers the following topics: Chautauqua
(Willamette Valley Chautauqua at Gladstone, Oregon), Lewis and Clark (including
Sacajawea), Sacajawea Statue Association, and Woman's Suffrage. Within topics,
the letters are arranged alphabetically by last names of correspondents, and
chronologically thereunder. The Lewis and Clark correspondence includes
handwritten and typescript transcripts of late 18th century and early 19th
century letters from original letters and published sources. The Chautauqua,
Sacajawea Statue Association, and Woman's Suffrage topics include some outgoing
correspondence, but the bulk of the subseries consists of incoming
correspondence. Correspondents represented are listed in the folder content
notes.
|
1776-1933 | |
Chautauqua--Willamette Valley
Chautauqua, Gladstone Park |
1894-1930 | |
Box/Folder | ||
3/1 | Incoming Correspondence,
A-K
Lucia F. Additon, C.F. Blake, Mrs. A. Bonham, Henrietta
Brown, Mary A. Case, Edwin L. Chalcraft, Frances R. Cooper (Mrs. H.G. Cooper),
H.M. Crooks, H.E. Cross, Thomas Lamb Eliot, William G. Eliot, Jr., Sarah A.
Evans, W.W. Ferrin, William L. Finley, R.E. Gosnell, Willis C. Hawley, George
H. Himes, John B. Horner, Wilhelmine Joehnke, Mina Kelly, and A. Ben Kori.
|
1902-1922 |
3/2 | Incoming correspondence,
M-W
Constance MacCorkle, W.W. Matthews, R.L. McCormick, J.
McCracken, Harriette A. Saxton, Joseph Schafer, Merritt Starr, Thomas N.
Strong, Wallace R. Struble, L.H. Vincent, Clara H. Waldo, Edyth Weatheread,
Marian A. White, and Ella M. Wildberger.
|
1906-1930 |
3/3 | Outgoing correspondence and
ephemera
Most of the correspondence is on Willamette Valley
Chautauqua letterhead. Also included are brochures, stock certificate, tickets,
and articles by Dye about Willis C. Hawley, titled "A Chautauqua Congressman,"
and "Answers to Yesterday's Questions." Correspondents include: Mrs. ? Dunbar,
Mrs. ? Franklin, Mr. ? Horner, Mr. Levison [Newman J. Levinson], Oregon Water
Power Railroad, and Mrs. ? White.
|
1894-1924 |
Lewis and Clark (including
Sacajawea) |
1776-1933 | |
Box/Folder | ||
3/4 | A (except
Anderson)
Charles Aldrich, Henry Altman, and Laura Armstead.
|
1903; 1910; 1931 |
3/5 | Anderson (C. Harper, Sally T.
and Sarah) |
1901-1904 |
3/6 | B-C (except
Clark)
Lucy Ball, J. Neilson Barry, George M. Block, P.B. Boninger,
Mrs. George Brierley, John F. Caples, [Jean Gabriel?] Cerré (fragment of letter
to "Mme. Lambert"), John T. Charbonneau, C.C. Chewning, Pierre Choteau, Henry
W. Coe, and Katherine M. Crowell.
|
1900-1933 |
3/7 | Mrs. J. K. Clark and Mary L.
Clark |
1901-1903 |
3/8 | Pete H. Clark |
1900 |
3/9 | Captain William
Clark
Typescript and hand written transcripts only of original
letters to his brother, to John Marks, to the Pottawattamie Nation, and to
Charbonneau.
|
1806-1815 |
3/10 | William H. Clark |
1901-1909 |
3/11 | D-F
Charles W. Dabney, Zadok T. Daniel, Mrs. M.M. Dean, J.T.
Dizney, Joe Dobbins, Gertrude Drouillard, George Drouillard (translation of May
23, 1809 letter to his sister, Marie Louise), R.T.W. Duke, Jr., R.T. Durrett,
Antoinette Edmundson, I.J. Farrar, William D. Fenton, J.T. Fields, Susan Lewis
Frederick, and Eugene H. Frye.
|
1809; 1900-1907 |
3/12 | G-H
F.F. Gerard, W.J. Ghent, Rose Giles, W.M. Harner, W.M.
Horner, Ellen Farrar Hauser (Mrs. Samuel Thomas Hauser), Albert Hawkins, Grace
Raymond Hebard, William L. Hill, W.M. Horner, James K. Hosmer, Laura Howey, and
Samuel G. Humphries.
|
1889; 1901-1933 |
3/13 | J-K
J.G. Jacob, Thomas Jefferson (handwritten transcript of
letter to George Rogers Clark, 1783, with comments of Frederick Jackson Turner
copied from the American Historical Review, July
1898, and typescript copy of letter to John Jacob Astor, 1813), J. Stoddard
Johnston, J. Wyatt Jones, James Kennerly (typescript copy of letter to George
[Kennerly?], 1836), Florence M. Kennerly, W.C. Kennerly, Martha Ordway Kibler
(writing for Mary E. Ordway), and Peter Koch.
|
1783-1836; 1898; 1901-1906 |
3/14 | L-N (except Meriwether Lewis
and Reuben Lewis)
Eliza Lewis, Henry J. Lewis, E.H. Libby, C.A. Lounsberry,
Thomas Marshall, Kate C. McBeth, A.M. McClain, Mary Floyd McMullen, W.C. Meyer,
Lischen M. Miller, Anne Shannon Monroe, E.P. Monroe, Lee Moorhouse, H.B.
Nicholas, and S.H. Nowlin.
|
1900-1914 |
3/15 | Meriwether Lewis and Reuben
Lewis
Handwritten transcripts of Meriwether Lewis's letters to his
mother, 1792-1808, and to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1805-1809.
Typescript transcript of Reuben Lewis's letters to his sister and
brother-in-law, Mary and John Marks, 1807-1812. Handwritten transcript of
William Lewis's letter to his wife, Lucy, 1776.
|
1776-1812 |
3/16 | O-R
Daniel Ordway (handwritten transcript of letter to uncle,
1825), John Ordway (handwritten and typescript transcripts of letters,
1803-1809), Mary E. Ordway, James I. Patten, Mary Radford, S.K. Radford, R.
Fromen Reasoner, J. Roberts (typescript transcript of letter to O.D. Wheeler),
Doane Robinson, Kinsey Robinson and Betsy Robinson (handwritten transcripts of
letters, 1817, 1824),
|
1803-1825; 1901-1923 |
3/17 | S
Samuel P. Sadtler, Calista W. Scott, Laura Tolman Scott,
W.R. Shannon, Margaret Sherlock, S.V. Southard, L.B. Sperry, and Thomas N.
Strong (includes manuscript map on verso of one letter of the movements of
Lewis and Clark at the mouth of the Columbia River and his letter to Reuben
Thwaites).
|
1890-1916 |
4/1 | T (except Mary Kennerly
Taylor and Reuben G. Thwaites)
Hammond Tarr, Mary M. Trevitt (Mrs. Victor Trevitt),
Frederick Jackson Turner, and L.G. Tyler.
|
1901-1902 |
4/2 | Mary Kennerly
Taylor |
undated |
4/3 | Reuben Gold
Thwaites |
1900-1904 |
4/4 | W-Y
Edyth Weatheread, W.M.L. Weidman, Olin D. Wheeler, Minerva
Clark Wheelon, Frank White, Florence Wilkes (Mrs. John S. Wilkes), Louis
Willard, Walter Woodward, and F.G. Young.
|
1900-1916 |
Sacajawea Statue
Association |
1903-1905 | |
Box/Folder | ||
4/5 | Incoming
correspondence
Henry Altman, Nat M. Brigham, Mrs. V.M. Coe, Alice Cooper,
Bessie Evans Pettinger, T.T. Geer, G.A. Perley, Tom Richardson, William M.
Risley, Reuben G. Thwaites, and Olin D. Wheeler.
|
1903-1905 |
4/6 | Outgoing correspondence--Eva
Emery Dye, president |
1903-1904 |
4/7-8 | Outgoing
correspondence--Sarah A. Evans, secretary |
1903-1905 |
Woman's suffrage
movement |
1904-1913 | |
Box/Folder | ||
4/9 | Incoming correspondence,
A-D
Lucy E. Armstrong, Ida Porter Boyer, Carrie Chapman Catt,
Laura Clay, Mrs. Henry Waldo Coe (includes copy of Eva Emery Dye's reply on
original letter), Clara B. Colby (and Lida M. O'Bryon, Abigail Scott Duniway
(includes copies of exchange with Anna H. Shaw and Kate M. Gordon,
February-June 1907), and Caroline Dunlap.
|
1904-1909 |
4/10 | Incoming correspondence, G-W
(and circular letters)
Kate M. Gordon, Frances E. Gotshall, Laura Gregg, Albert
Hawkins, Jeffrey Myers, Lester Phutt (to Charles H. Dye), Anna H. Shaw, Harriet
Taylor Upton, Stephen S. Wise, and circular letters: An Open Letter to voters
of all political parties in the State of Oregon; letter and "A Protest," Oregon
State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women.
|
1905-1909 |
4/11 | Outgoing
correspondence
John F. Carroll, Governor George E. Chamberlain, Mrs. Henry
Waldo Coe, Ella ? (friend from Iowa), Professor Hawley [Willis C. Hawley],
[Samuel] Jackson, Sara ? (friend from Seattle, Washington), and Harvey W.
Scott.
|
1906-1913 |
Sub-series 3: Outgoing
Correspondence
Outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically.
Correspondents represented are included in folder content notes. Note that some
of Eva Emery Dye's letters to newspaper editors may be found in Series B.
|
1892-1937 | |
Box/Folder | ||
4/12 | Outgoing
correspondence
C. Harper Anderson, Mr. ? Brown, Mrs. ? Clark, [Gertrude]
Drouillard, ? Eggert, Susan Lewis Frederick, F.F. Gerard, J. Stoddard Johnston,
R.N. Lewis, Professor ? Marshall, [Kate C.] McBeth, George W. McBride, Miss
[Mary Floyd] McMullin, Maria Louisa Rae Myrick, Oregon Historical Society,
[Joseph] Schafer, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Platon Vallejo, and Whittaker & Ray
Company.
|
1892-1902 |
4/13 | Outgoing
correspondence
Mr. ? Brown, J.T. Fields, [J.K.] Gill, H.W. Goode, William
Elliot Griffis, Grace Raymond Hebard, Mrs. H.P. Isaacs (including Dye's
personal mailing envelope with the Lewis and Clark Exposition logo), James K.
Hosmer, [Hiram] Knowles, J.E. Knox, William H. Lee, Lena ? [friend from
Nebraska], Carll [sic] A. Lewis, [Ben ?] MacDonald, [Edgar S.] Paxson, William
Salter, and [Reuben Gold] Thwaites.
|
1903-1906 |
4/14 | Outgoing
correspondence
Professor ? Alexander, Edward Dekum, Professor ? Eary, Hattie
?, [Grace Raymond] Hebard, [George] Himes, Henry M. Lyman, Miss ? Marvin, W.H.
McMonies, [Mary ?] Ordway, [Guy Fitch] Phelps, Mary E. Townsend, and Mrs. ?
Turner.
|
1910-1921 |
4/15 | Outgoing
correspondence
[Oliver C.] Applegate, Bert Brown Barker, [J. Neilson] Barry,
Mr. ? Curry, {W.J.] Ghent, John A. Gilkey, [Albert] Hawkins, Grace [Raymond
Hebard], William L. Hill, Mr. ? Hotchkiss, Harold Ickes (requesting support for
restoring the John McLoughlin House at Oregon City), Mr. and Mrs. John
Lauterman, [Edmond S.] Meany, Mr. ? Parrish, Janet P. Shaw, F.W. Skiff, Mrs. ?
Thiessen, Samuel Walker, Albert Richard Wetjen,
|
1924-1937; undated |
Series B: Eva Emery Dye's Manuscripts, 1840-1940Return to Top
The series is organized into the following subseries: 1) Eva Emery Dye, Author, 2) Articles and Other Short Pieces, 3) Books, 4) Literary Journal and Scrapbooks, and 5) Speeches. Notable among the short pieces is a play, which Phil Rogaway adapted from Eva Emery Dye's book, The Conquest. It was produced at the Belasco Theatre in Portland during the Lewis and Clark Centennial celebration in 1905 and at other theaters around the country. Also included in the short pieces is a song celebrating the state flower, The Oregon Grape, for which she wrote the lyrics.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Sub-series 1: Eva Emery Dye, Author
Materials relate to her work and life as an author, including
biographical sketches, book reviews, a book contract, ephemera, and publicity.
Similar materials are located in scrapbooks (Subseries 4).
|
[1900]-1934 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
5/1 | Biographical
sketches |
[1900]; 1931; undated | |
5/2 | Book reviews |
1901-1934 | |
5/3 | Contract with A.C. McClurg
& Company |
1906 April 10 | |
5/4 | Ephemera advertising Eva Emery
Dye's books |
1902-1903; [1906]; 1934 | |
5/5 | Honors and
publicity |
1905-1932 | |
Lewis and Clark Centennial
Exposition complimentary season pass |
1905 | ||
McLoughlin Memorial
Association Life Membership Certificate |
circa 1910 | ||
"Oregon Writer at Honolulu,"
proof sheets of article, Oregon City
Courier
|
1910; November 11 | ||
The MacDonald hotel
(Honolulu, Hawaii) business card |
[1910] | ||
Twentieth Century Successful Americans selection
notice |
1915 | ||
National Cyclopedia of American Biography
entry |
1924 | ||
Tribute letter from Oregon
governor, J.L. Patterson |
1929 March 20 | ||
Eva Emery Dye Week (First
Congregational Church, Oregon City), banquet program |
1932 May 6 | ||
Sub-series 2: Articles and Other Short
Pieces
In addition to articles, the subseries includes a book review,
letters to editors, Oregon town profiles and glossary of place names, a
pageant, a play, poems, a song, and a story. Dated articles are arranged
chronologically, and publication details are given if known. Undated articles
are arranged alphabetically by title. Other pieces are arranged alphabetically
by type.
|
1840-1940 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
5/6 | Articles--dated |
1894-1936 | |
"An Oregonian at the Woman's
Congress" (Dye spoke at the first Pacific Coast Woman's Congress) |
1894 | ||
"Yesterday at Oberlin"
(published in Oberlin's alumni magazine) |
1909 | ||
"The Island of Tranquil
Delights" (trip to Hawaii) |
1910 | ||
"Historic Oregon City"
(published in the Oregonian) |
1924 May | ||
Untitled (Gladstone Park and
Chautauqua) |
1926 | ||
"Boyhood of Edwin
Markham" |
1936 June 30 | ||
"A Tale of Three Cities,
Boston, Oregon City, Honolulu," circa 1930 |
|||
Untitled (Oregon City
history) |
circa 1930 | ||
5/7 | Articles--undated--titles A-M
undated |
||
"Anecdotes of Iowa's War
Governor" |
|||
"The Columbia
Highway" |
|||
"Influence of the American
Revolution on Oregon" |
|||
"The Lineage of the
Pioneers" |
|||
"David Malo" |
|||
"David McLoughlin: An Oregon
Rip Van Winkle Awakens from a Sleep of Years" |
|||
5/8 | Articles--undated--O-W and
untitled |
undated | |
"An Oregon Rip Van Winkle" (a
different version of "David McLoughlin"--see 5/7) |
|||
"Old Oregon and
Hawaii" |
|||
"Oregon Today" |
|||
"Portland in the Days of
'45" |
|||
"The Proclamation That
Inspired Heroes in Oregon" |
|||
"The Race of the
Oregon" |
|||
"The Rainbow
Trout" |
|||
"Sacajawea" |
|||
"Sam Hill" |
|||
"Thoughts" on
"Friendship" |
|||
"Who Are You?" |
|||
Untitled [importance of local
history] |
|||
Untitled [Oregon
history] |
|||
5/9 | Article--"On the Trail of
Daniel Boone" |
||
Box | |||
5 | Sent to the
Oregonian, March 25, ? |
||
5/10 | Articles--published
versions |
circa 1890-1930 | |
"Longfellow,"
The Dakota Educator
|
circa 1890 | ||
"A Hero of Old Astoria,"
The School and Home
|
1911 October | ||
"The Men Who Led,"
Pacific Christian Advocate
|
1922 July 26 | ||
"Captain Dominus and
Washington Place," The Friend
|
1930 January | ||
5/11 | Book review--The Original Journals of Lewis and Clark
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Published by Dodd, Mead &
Co., New York
|
1904 | |
5/12 | Letters to editors
Topics include the McLoughlin House at Oregon City,
descendants of Lewis and Clark, publication of the journals of Lewis and Clark,
school textbook for Oregon history, George Gay House, and Oregon City's
historic apple tree.
|
1901-1939 | |
5/13 | Oregon town profiles and
glossary of place names |
circa 1930 | |
5/14 | Pageant--[Beginnings of Oregon
City], proposed |
circa 1906 | |
5/15 | Play--The
Conquest--manuscript
Based on Eva Emery Dye's book of the same title, the play was
written by Phil F. Rogoway and represented by the Kaphan Theatrical Syndicate
of New York. It was produced by David Belasco in his new Belasco Theatre at
Portland, Oregon, as part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Centennial
celebration.
|
1905 | |
5/16 | Play--The
Conquest--correspondence and ephemera
Includes program from Belasco Theatre production and letter
from Phil Rogaway.
|
1905-1906 | |
5/17 | Poetry
Included is "The Fall of Anahuac" (typescript). Original
handwritten version is in Eva Emery Dye's Journal (Box 10, Folder 1), pages
93-97, written for the Ladies' Literary Society at Oberlin, July 18, 1877.
|
undated | |
5/18 | Songs
Eva Emery Dye's lyrics of The Oregon
Grape (1910) honored Oregon's state flower. Sheet music (in Oversize
A--11x14), with music by F. Dominic, was published by Mt.
Angel Magazine, The Benedictine Press, Mt. Angel, Oregon and was
dedicated to "the school children of Oregon." A version published in
Oregon Teachers Monthly has music by A.M. Sanders.
Other selections included.
|
1910; undated | |
5/19 | Story--"The House of the
Mandarin: A Portland Story" |
undated | |
Sub-series 3: Books
The typescript manuscripts and related materials in this
subseries are organized in the order that the manuscripts were first published,
since specific dates of writing and revisions are not necessarily known. In
some cases the manuscripts in this collection are for later revised editions,
not the first editions. The manuscripts often include duplicate versions of
chapters and show evidence of much editing and rearrangement. Correspondence
related to McDonald of Old Oregon is included here
rather than in the correspondence series. Also included in this subseries is
the manuscript for an unpublished book on Hawaii, variously titled "A Royal
Romance," "When Hawaii Was a Kingdom," "The King's Eagles," "The Flag in
Hawaii," and possibly "The Puritan in the Pacific." In addition to books, the
subseries includes information on adaptation of McLoughlin and Old Oregon into the opera,
Narcissa, by Sarah Pratt Carr and Mary Carr Moore,
which premiered at Seattle, Washington, in 1925. Note that the University of
Oregon Library Special Collections has the original handwritten manuscript for
McLoughlin and Old Oregon.
|
1840-1940 | ||
Stories
of Oregon (used as school textbook) |
|||
Box/Folder | |||
5/20 | Full text for revised
edition |
1906 | |
5/21 | Contents, preface, and some
chapters |
1906 | |
5/22 | Correspondence with Binfords
& Mort re. new edition |
1937 | |
McLoughlin and Old Oregon (manuscript originally titled
Old Oregon) |
|||
Box/Folder | |||
6/1 | Title page,
contents |
[1900] | |
6/2 | Chapters 1-9 |
[1900] | |
6/3 | Chapters 10-20 |
[1900] | |
6/4 | Chapters 21-29 |
[1900] | |
6/5 | Chapters 30-31 |
[1900] | |
6/6 | Manuscript fragments--working
title, "The King of the Columbia" |
undated | |
6/7 | Opera, Narcissa--history and synopsis
Adapted from McLoughlin and Old
Oregon, libretto by Sarah Pratt Carr, music by Mary Carr Moore.
|
[1925] | |
The
Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark |
1902 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
6/8 | Title page, sources,
contents |
||
6/9-11 | Book 1 |
||
6/12-14 | Book 2 |
||
7/1-2 | Book 3 |
||
7/3 | Chapter, "A Bride in St.
Louis"
Chapter is not listed in contents page of manuscript but is
in the published work.
|
||
7/4 | Index--fragmentary
handwritten index in notebook |
||
7/5 | Errata for fourth
edition |
1909 | |
7/6 | As elocution program by Maud
Battelle Hammell of Idaho |
undated | |
Article, "The Conquest by Eva Emory [sic] Dye, of Oregon Finds Its
Exponent on the Platform," clipping from The Greater
West
|
|||
McDonald
of Oregon (manuscript originally titled, "Ranald McDonald: A Chronicle
of Old Oregon and Japan") |
1906 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
7/7 | Title page, introduction,
dedication, and contents |
||
7/8 | Part 1, Book 1 |
||
7/9 | Part 1, Book 2 |
||
7/10 | Part 1, Book 3 |
||
7/11 | Part 1, Book 4 |
||
8/1 | Part 2, Book 1 |
||
8/2-4 | Part 2, Book 2 |
||
8/5 | Conclusion |
||
8/6 | Manuscript
fragments |
||
8/7 | Illustrations by W.D.
Enright--page proofs |
||
8/8 | "Historical Sketch of Oregon
City" in Portland, Oregon: Its History and
Builders (Joseph Gaston)
Author's title: "Oregon City: County Seat of Clackamas and
First Capital of Oregon"
|
1911 | |
The Soul
of America: An Oregon Iliad |
1934 | ||
Box/Folder | Box/Folder | ||
8/9-11 | 9/1 | Manuscript |
|
9/2-5 | Page proofs |
||
A Royal
Romance (unpublished) |
circa 1923 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
9/6 | Title page, contents,
characters, testimonial, and pages 1-76
The testimonial is a letter from Sanford B. Dole, former
president of Hawaii, dated June 24, 1923.
|
||
9/7 | Pages 77-130 (131-167
missing) |
||
9/8-11 | Pages 168-439 |
||
9/12 | Title page and dedication
only, with alternate title, "The Flag in Hawaii"
Dedicated to her cousin Charlotte, "Who Came to Lahainaluna
When Hawaii Was A Kingdom."
|
||
9/13 | Correspondence and related
materials (incoming and outgoing)
Frank A. Allen, George E. Allen, R.W. Andrews, James L.
Barton, D.B. Colcord, Joseph W. Colcord (obituary clipping), Abbie Hatch
Farrar, E.J. Hatch, J. Hunsacker, R.C. Lydecker (Archives of Hawaii), J.D.
Parit (handwritten transcription of extract from journal, 1840-1841), and Mrs.
? Taylor.
|
1840-1841; 1908-1913 | |
9/14 | Correspondence and related
materials (incoming and outgoing)
Eleanor Baldwin, J.S. Bishop, Sanford Ballard Dole, William
M. Emery, Mrs. Walter F. Frear, Arthur A. Greene, Henry P. Judd, Oregon
Historical Society (with E.T. Hatch letter, Dec. 25, 1874), and W.S. Westerveld
(with list of Hawaiian names and translations).
|
1874; 1916-1940 | |
9/15 | Unidentified manuscript
fragments |
undated | |
Sub-series 4: Literary Journal and
Scrapbooks
The literary journal contains Eva Emery Dye's earliest published
writings, many under the nom de plume, Jennie Juniper. Scrapbooks document her
life from childhood through her mature years as a celebrated author.
|
1857-1940 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
10/1 | Literary journal
Manuscripts of original songs and poems and translations from
the Classics, much of it produced while Eva Emery Dye was a student at Oberlin
College. A few later additions to the journal include poems and "Lines for
Gifford's Pictures" [Art Work of Portland, Mt. Hood and
the Columbia River, 1912]. Items inserted between pages include a lock
of brunette hair and a translation from Horace, probably from Oberlin days;
clippings about Reed College and about birth injuries with a notation ("Maybe
this explains Emery [her son's mental illness]. He was practically dead when
born but was revived.") and a poem, all from the 1910s.
|
1872-1882; 1912-1918 | |
15/1 | Scrapbook
Newspaper clippings of the early published essays, poems and
stories by Eva Emery Dye, writing under the nom de plume, Jennie Juniper and
under her own maiden name, Eva L. Emery. Some of the stories are lengthy and
serialized in several issues. The scrapbook also includes a few clippings that
detail Eva's teaching career, particularly at Delhi School, 1874, and an
announcement of her 1875 enrollment at Oberlin. The clippings and a few pieces
of ephemera are pasted onto the pages of an 1867 volume of the
Journal of the Senate. The cover is missing. Loose
clippings and ephemera have been moved to a separate folder (15/2)
|
1857; 1873-1879 | |
15/2 | Scrapbook--loose clippings and
ephemera
Includes coverage of the activities of Charles Dye, teaching
and law school, and Eva Emery Dye, teaching and community activities, most
notably the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
|
1890 | |
16/1 | Scrapbook
Press clippings advertising, announcing and reviewing Eva
Emery Dye's first two published books, Stories of
Oregon and McLoughlin and Old Oregon. They
were obtained from publications across the country through a newspaper clipping
service. Also included are three brochures from her publisher, A.C. McClurg
& Co., one pairing her McLoughlin book with The
Bridge of the Gods by Frederick H. Balch.
|
1900-1901 | |
16/2 | Scrapbook |
1900-1939 | |
Clippings
News coverage of Eva Emery Dye's activities, books, honors,
poems, and biographical profiles of her, as well as coverage of Charles H.
Dye's death in 1929, and some other items of historical interest. Included is
coverage of her authorship of the lyrics to The Oregon
Grape, a song celebrating the state flower, 1910.
|
|||
Ephemera |
|||
Brochure and leaflet for
The Conquest
|
1903 | ||
Sacajawea Statue
Association letterhead with date |
1905 April 24 | ||
J.K. Gill leaflets for
McLoughlin and Old Oregon,
McDonald of Oregon, and The
Conquest
|
circa 1906 | ||
Charles H. Dye's campaign
card as Republican for Oregon House of Representatives |
1906 | ||
The
Oregon Grape song from Oregon Teachers
Monthly
|
circa 1910 | ||
Willamette Valley
Chautauqua program |
1912 | ||
Willamette Valley
Chautauqua letterhead with copy of part of a letter from Eva Emery Dye to Helen
Starrett |
1919 May 22 | ||
Address to the Oregon
Pioneer Association 56th annual reunion |
1928 June 28 | ||
Oberlin College Class of
1882 Fiftieth Anniversary program, 1932, featuring the class song Eva Emery
wrote as a junior in 1881, and her valedictory in poem form, "The Battle-Song
of '82" |
|||
J.K. Gill Book Company
flyer for The Soul of America
|
1934 | ||
Leaflet and brochure from
The Press of the Pioneers for The Soul of
America
|
1934 | ||
Author's greeting card featuring her photograph and list
of her books |
circa 1935 | ||
Leaflet for Oregon City's
third annual Territorial Days |
1937 August 20-21 | ||
Binfords & Mort
advertising leaflet for their re-issue of McLoughlin and
Old Oregon and Conquest: The Story of Lewis and
Clark
|
undated | ||
Holiday greeting card with
photograph from granddaughter, Betty Dye |
undated | ||
16/3 | Scrapbook
Contents duplicate many items in the scrapbook in Folder 2,
with the following additions:
|
1900-1940 | |
Article on Sacajawea,
"Heroine's Long-Delayed Reward," Chicago
Inter-Ocean
|
circa 1904 | ||
Willamette Valley Chautauqua
letterhead with copy of part of letter to Miss Spooner |
1919 May 31 | ||
Additional piece of program
from Class of 1982 fiftieth reunion, with class list and current
status |
1932 | ||
List of gifts from a
University of Oregon publication, including her gift of the manuscript for
McLoughlin and Old Oregon, 1940 |
|||
Sub-series 5: Speeches
Among the most notable of Eva Emery Dye's speeches in this
subseries are those given at the dedication of the Sacajawea statue at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905 and the National American Woman Suffrage
Assocation meeting at Seattle in 1909. Also included is a radio talk from 1934.
Dated speeches are arranged chronologically; others are arranged alphabetically
by title or topic. Many are notes or outlines rather than the full text of the
speeches.
|
[1903]-circa 1940 | ||
Box/Folder | |||
10/2 | [The
Conquest]--two versions |
[1903] | |
10/3 | Sacajawea statue dedication,
Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon |
1905 | |
10/4 | [Woman's suffrage] |
1906 | |
10/5 | Multnomah (Oregon) Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution |
1906 | |
10/6 | First Methodist Episcopal
Church, Oregon City, Oregon |
1908 January 26 | |
10/7 | National American Woman
Suffrage Association, Seattle, Washington |
1909 July 2 | |
10/8 | Golden wedding anniversary
celebration, "Story of James and Jane Wilkinson," First Congregational Church,
Oregon City, Oregon |
1910 August 30 | |
10/9 | [War Talk]--outline |
[1918] | |
10/10 | Methodist Church dedication,
Oregon City, Oregon |
1921 March 18 | |
10/11 | Inauguration of Arnold Bennett
Hall as president, University of Oregon |
1926 October | |
10/12 | Radio talk |
1934 May 17 | |
10/13 | Other speeches
"What I Like In a Pastor," circa 1940
Authors' banquet, undated
[Children as historians], undated
Edwin Markham (event honoring)--welcome, undated
National Editorial Association--welcome, undated
Oregon State Normal School, undated
|
circa 1940; undated |
Series C: Eva Emery Dye's Research, 1839-1931Return to Top
The collection is organized into the following subseries: 1) Research Notes and Related Materials and 2) Writings by Others. Very few of the research notes are dated, so they are organized alphabetically by topic.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Sub-series 1: Research Notes and Related
Materials
In addition to notes, this subseries includes a group of
published materials that Eva Emery Dye collected while researching her book on
Hawaii.
|
1839-1931 | |
Box/Folder | ||
10/14 | First Congregational Church,
Oregon City, Oregon |
undated |
Hawaii |
||
Box/Folder | ||
10/15 | Book--Dear Hawaii by Mary L. Restarick |
1922 |
10/16 | Notes |
undated |
10/17 | Reports--mission
societies |
1908; circa 1915 |
Hawaiian Mission Children's
Society |
1908 | |
American Missionary
Society |
circa 1915 | |
10/18-19 | Reports--Hawaiian Historical
Society |
1923; 1925; 1927-1930 |
10/20 | Reprint--Hawaiian Historical
Society, "The Death of James Cook" |
1926 |
10/21 | Serials--Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society
|
1927; 1930-1931 |
10/22 | Serials containing articles
about Hawaii |
1925; 1927 |
The
Missionary Herald |
1925 April | |
The
Outlook |
1927 August 31 | |
11/1 | Lewis and Clark
Includes "List of Lewis and Clark's Men," notes on Lewis and
Clark Journals and on Sacajawea.
|
undated |
11/2-3 | Oregon Country
history
Major topics covered include the British warship,
Modeste, in the Columbia River, Boone family, and
George Curry. Miscellaneous notes are contained on sheets and slips of paper
and in school tablets.
|
undated |
11/4 | People
Includes Applegate family, John T. Apperson, Magdalene
Blust, Harvey Clarke, Clark Greenman, Hatch family, Willis Chatman Hawley,
Horace Holden, James Willis Nesmith, John Saltar, and Harriet Wyeth.
|
undated |
11/5 | People--Freeman
Armstrong--reminiscences dictated to Eva Emery Dye |
undated |
11/6 | People--William Duncan (of
Alaska) |
circa 1912 |
11/7 | People--Ranald
McDonald |
undated |
11/8 | Protestant missionaries in
Oregon |
1923; undated |
11/9 | Published sources and notes
on |
1893; 1913; undated |
"Found in a Grave...A
Sailor of the Ship Columbia...," Weekly
Oregonian--clipping |
1893 March 17 | |
"A Paper on Jason Lee as
the Founder of Willamette University," Willamette
University Bulletin
|
1913 March | |
Voyages from Canton in the Ship Morrison by E. French,
1839--notes on |
undated | |
Transcriptions |
||
Box/Folder | ||
11/10 | Of letter, journal, and
report |
undated |
Letter from J.D. Paris to
E. Walker |
June 18; 1841 | |
Journal of Alvin
Smith |
1838 March-1846 January | |
Report (extract) by
Lieutenants Warre and Vavasour |
1845 October 26 | |
11/11 | Of published
materials |
1883; 1888; undated |
"Clatsop's Lawful King"
(Com-Comly), Oregonian
|
1883 | |
Obituary of Jesse Applegate
by Elisha L. Applegate, unidentified publication |
August 1888 | |
"Our Pioneers,"
The Reporter (McMinnville, Oregon), Dec. 30,
? |
||
Obituary of Charlotte S.
Hatch by Harvey Clark, The Friend
|
undated | |
"Samuel Wells Williams"
entry, Encyclopedia of Missions
|
undated | |
11/12 | Of speeches |
1865; 1927 |
By Oregon Governor George
Curry at Boston |
1865 | |
By Harvey G. Starkweather,
presentation of gavel to Mid-day Lodge A.F.&.A.M. as gift of Milwaukie
Lodge |
1927 September 1 | |
Sub-series 2: Writings by Others
Materials in this subseries are arranged alphabetically by last
names of the authors.
|
1885-1912 | |
Box/Folder | ||
11/13 | Lillian Applegate
[Biography of Elizabeth Basham Miller]
[Biography of Maria Elder Watson]
|
1904 |
11/14 | William Barlow
"History of the Barlow Road," typescript extract from
"Reminiscences of Seventy Years," Oregon Historical
Quarterly, 1912, volume 13, pages 240-286 (photocopy in folder).
|
1912 |
11/15 | T.R. Cornelius
"How Colonel T.R. Cornelius and Party Crossed the Plains,"
(12th in series, "Pioneer Days"), Oregonian, 1885
July 5 (includes photocopy from microfilm)
|
1885 July 5 |
11/16 | F.H. Grubbs
"The Oldest Native Astorian. A Brief
Sketch of the Life of the Grandson of Kin Kumkumly, the Old Indian
Chief" [Ranald McDonald]
|
1891 |
11/17 | E.T. Hatch
"Pioneers Who Helped to Make Oregon" [memoir of the Locey and
Hatch families]
|
undated |
11/18 | George H. Himes
Biographical sketch of Napoleon McGillivray, with letter, Eva
Emery Dye to Himes, 1905 April 10
|
1905 |
11/19 | Adachi Kinnosuke
"Fifty Years of Japan," article by managing editor for
projected monthly magazine, The Far East, to be
published in New York.
|
circa 1903 |
11/20-23 | Ranald MacDonald [Ranald
Macdonald]
"Japan: Story of Adventure of Ranald Macdonald, First Teacher
of English in Japan, A.D. 1848-9" (and Eva Emery Dye's notes on the
manuscript).
|
undated |
11/24 | William T. Scholl |
1891-1897 |
Diary |
1891 January 1-1897 May 11 | |
11/25 | Stephen Staats
"The Occasional Address" delivered at Oregon Pioneer
Association reunion, 1887. Published version (photocopy included),
Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1888
|
1887 |
Series D: Dye and Emery Family Papers, 1857-1967Return to Top
The bulk of this series includes correspondence among Charles and Eva Emery Dye and their children, but it also includes a small amount of correspondence with other relatives, including Eva's father, Cyrus Emery. For many years, Charles and Eva Emery Dye wrote nearly weekly group letters to three of their children and families, Evangeline "Eva" Dye Hutchinson, Everett and Harriet Dye, and Trafton and Mary Dye. The Dyes also wrote individually to their children, mostly Charles to Everett and Eva Emery to her daughter, Eva. The series also includes correspondence among the children. Emery Dye, the eldest son who suffered a mental breakdown in young manhood, is represented only by a small quantity of correspondence and ephemera. In addition to correspondence, the series includes small amounts of ephemera and newspaper clippings.
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
---|---|---|
Sub-series 1: Charles H. Dye
The correspondence and ephemera in this subseries relates to
Charles Dye's legal practice at Oregon City, Oregon, his political activities,
teaching career, genealogy, and family, including his father, Henry Dye, and
brothers, George Dye and Willoughby Dye.
|
1873-1929 | |
Box/Folder | ||
12/1 | Incoming correspondence,
C-F
H.T. Burket, H.M. Cake, George F. Chamberlain, Andrew
Christensen, M. Angela Daugherty, J. Warren S. Dey, George Dye, Henry Dye,
Willoughby Dye, William Eaton, and C.W. Fulton.
|
1878-1906 |
12/2 | Incoming correspondence,
H-S
J.D. Hannan, W.C. Hawley, Samuel Herrick, George L. Hutchin
(Portland Rose Festival), C.T. Locey, Wallace McCamant, and Judson Smith.
|
1886-1920 |
12/3 | Outgoing correspondence and
other papers
Correspondents include W.C. Hawley, A.P. Nelson (promissory
note), A. Wilford, and J.D. Wise. Other papers include the constitution and
bylaws of the Dry Legion of America and flyers announcing land openings at Twin
Falls, Idaho, and the San Luis Valley, Colorado, 1908 (with note about opening
Oregon lands the following year).
|
1905; 1908; 1910; undated |
12/4 | Ephemera |
1873-1929 |
Teaching certificates and
testimonials from Iowa and Illinois |
1873-1890 | |
Campaign card for re-election
to the Oregon House of Representatives |
1908 | |
Bulletin of Pacific University |
1913 May 1 | |
B.P.O.E. program for Dye's
memorial service, Oregon City Lodge No. 1189 |
1929 December 1 | |
Oversize folder B-1 | Certificates of admission to
the Iowa and Oregon State bars |
1889-1890 |
Sub-series 2: Charles H. Dye and Eva Emery Dye
and Family
The correspondence and ephemera in this subseries makes up the
bulk of the series, including individual and group correspondence among Charles
H. Dye and Eva Emery Dye and their children. The subseries is arranged
alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically thereunder.
|
1857-1967 | |
Box/Folder | ||
12/5 | Charles Dye and Eva Emery
Dye--ephemera
Announcement of their graduation from Oberlin College (June
28, 1882) and wedding (July 13, 1882) with enclosed mounted albumen print (4 x
6 cm.) of Eva L. Emery and "Dr. D."
|
1882; 1905-1906 |
Oberlin College commencement
week invitations |
1905-1906 | |
Box/Folder | ||
12/6 | Eva Emery Dye to Charles H.
Dye |
1910; 1921 |
12/7-11 | Eva Emery Dye and Charles H.
Dye to children |
1920-1929 |
12/12-14 | Eva Emery Dye to
children |
1930-1939 |
12/15-18 | Eva Emery Dye to Eva Dye
Hutchinson |
1918-1942 |
13/1-3 | Eva Emery Dye and Charles Dye
to Everett Dye |
1918-1921 |
13/4-5 | Eva Emery Dye and Charles Dye
to Everett Dye and Harriet Dye |
1922-1929 |
Eva Emery Dye |
||
Box/Folder | ||
13/6 | To Everett Dye and Harriet
Dye |
1931-1936 |
13/7 | To Trafton Dye and Mary
Dye |
1918-1940 |
13/8 | To Cyrus Emery (her
father) |
1900-1907 |
13/9 | To other relatives (and
genealogy related correspondence)
Mrs. ? Ackerman, Iroline Dye, William M. Emery, Sandy
Marcus, Margaret Wieneke, and Winifred ?
|
1905-1940 |
Box/Folder | ||
13/10 | Other
correspondence
L.S. Wright re. vegetable seeds and L.C. Simms re. property
management
|
1920; 1939 |
13/11 | Ephemera |
1873-1940 |
Teaching certificates and
testimonials from Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and Oregon |
1873-1890 | |
Bank book, Bank of Oregon
City |
1907-1922 | |
Voter registration
certificate |
1913 July 24 | |
Authors League of America
receipt for dues |
1915 April | |
Oregon Historical Society
notification of annual meeting |
1915 December 2 | |
Multorpor Republican Club
(Portland, Oregon), resolution of thanks to Clackamas County [Republican]
Central Committee for hospitality at parade and meeting at Oregon
City |
1916 | |
Society of Old Plymouth
Colony Descendants membership certificate, based on descent from John
Alden |
1940 March 11 | |
Prospectus for "The historic
highways of America" by Archer Butler Hulbert |
undated | |
Form letters to Congress
regarding the importation of liquor to Puerto Rico |
undated | |
Address given by Helen F.
Barnes of the YWCA at the United War Workers Conference, Portland |
1918 October 10 | |
16/4 | Appointment as an Oregon state
honorary delegate to the Northwestern Congress for a League of
Nations |
1919 January |
Oversize Folder B-1 | Oregon Historical Society
membership certificate |
1901 |
13/12 | Newspaper clippings
Articles cover Eva Emery Dye and her writing, family, friends,
World War I, and construction of an aluminum plant in Vancouver,
Washington.
|
1918-1941; undated |
13/13 | Emery H. Dye |
1899-1924; 1940 |
Account book of Emery and
Trafton Dye |
1899 | |
Report cards, graduation
announcement, calling cards, and letters to his father from Pacific University
at Forest Grove, Oregon |
1900-1903 | |
Charles and Eva Emery Dye's
correspondence with Dr. R.E. Steiner, superintendent of Oregon State Hospital,
Salem, and Dr. Woodruff L. Post of New York City regarding Emery's mental
illness. |
||
Letter from Emery Dye to Eva
Emery Dye |
1940 September 2 | |
Eva Dye Hutchinson |
||
Box/Folder | ||
13/14 | To Charles Dye and Eva Emery
Dye |
1915-1933 |
13/15-16 | To Everett Dye |
1918-1922 |
13/17 | To Everett Dye and Harriet
Dye |
1922-1937 |
13/18 | To Trafton Dye and Mary
Dye |
1928-1930 |
13/19 | From Sybil Hadwen |
1919 February |
Everett Dye |
||
Box/Folder | ||
14/1-4 | To Charles Dye and Eva Emery
Dye |
1918-1942 |
14/5 | To Eva Dye
[Hutchinson] |
1920 |
14/6 | Correspondence with Elbert
Charman
Charman was a long-time friend from Oregon City. Later
correspondence is addressed to "Everett and Jean." Jean was Everett's second
wife.
|
1918; 1947-1967 |
14/7 | From correspondents,
A-L
Archwood Avenue Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio),
George Carpenter, Edward J. Carlisle, J.H. Dubendorf, Betty Dye (graduation
announcement from Oberlin College, 1935), Will Dye, Tracton M. Dykes, R.C.
Fenner, Grace C. Gilliam, Agnes Harris, Esther Harris, Ethel Hollister, Kenneth
Scott Latourette, and J.B. Lounce.
|
1918-1935; 1962 |
14/8 | From correspondents,
P-Z
Lee Pendleton (to Mrs. ? Nahstol, in Everett Dye's
correspondence), Iroline Dye McKenzie, Olga ? (a cousin), A.H. Read, E.D.
Ressler, J.C. Rich, Ruth ? (college friend), Sal ? (a cousin), Mabel E. Smith,
Wendell Smith, Maxine Telford, Nancy M. Ward, Yale Waterman, Mrs. R.H. White,
Pat White, Zelta ? (college friend).
|
1918-1932; 1959-1965 |
14/9 | To other
correspondents
Martha Deed (World Service Refugee and Migration office re.
the Dyes' experience with Displaced Persons Resettlement), Ruby ?, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Schmidt, and Hilda Wagner.
|
1961-1964 |
14/10 | Ephemera |
1903-1968 |
First grade report card,
Oregon City schools |
1903 June | |
Report cover, Oregon
Agricultural College Department of Experimental Engineering, "Determination of
Moisture in Steam" by Everett Dye |
1917 March 3 | |
Military
records |
1918 | |
Fingerprints ( partial
prints apparently made by him for his own purposes) |
1924 | |
Newspaper clipping,
photograph of Everett Dye and others in new Juvenile Courtroom, Cleveland,
Ohio, from Cleveland Plaindealer
|
1932 December 25 | |
Radio script by
Dye |
1968 October 26 | |
Trafton Dye |
||
Box/Folder | ||
14/11 | To Charles Dye and Eva Emery
Dye |
1908 |
14/12 | And Mary Dye to Charles Dye
and Eva Emery Dye |
1922-1942 |
14/13 | To Eva Dye
Hutchinson |
1939 |
14/14 | To Everett Dye |
1918-1921 |
14/15 | Ephemera |
1908-1909 |
Calling cards |
||
Christmas card to his
grandfather, Cyrus Emery |
1908 | |
Notice of appointment as
Vanderbilt Scholar in Law at Columbia University, New York |
1909 July 13 | |
Dye Family |
||
Box/Folder | ||
14/16 | Ephemera--Macedonia
(Illinois) High School commencement announcement |
1899 |
14/17 | Notes on family members and
family correspondence--possibly by a grandchild |
circa 1987 |
14/18 | Emery
Family--ephemera |
1857; 1913 |
Printed obituary of
Caroline B. Emery [Eva Emery Dye's mother] |
1857 April | |
Address of Professor Henry
C. Emery to Boston Chamber of Commerce, published by National Tariff
Commission |
1913 April | |
Sub-series 3: Dye and Emery Family
Genealogy |
1892-1997 | |
Box/Folder | ||
14/19 | Genealogical Record of Charles Henry Dye and Eva Lucinda Emery
Dye, compiled by Charles R. and Evelyn Hutchinson |
1997 |
14/20 | Emery Family
research--clippings, correspondence, and genealogy chart |
1892-1916; undated |
14/21-22 | "Recollections of Childhood" by
Cyrus Emery |
1899 |
Transcriptions of letters concerning the Lewis and Clark expedition, 2003Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 15/3
Transcribed by Jeff Davis from microfilm in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society, 2003.
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Chautauquas.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon.
- Geographical Names:
- Oregon National Historical Trail.
- Oregon--History.
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Pioneers--Oregon.
- Women authors, American--Oregon.
- Women--Suffrage--Oregon.
Personal Names
- Applegate, Jesse A. (Jesse Applegate), 1835-1919
- Boone, Alphonse D., 1837-1915
- Boone, George Luther, 1826-1910
- Charman, Elbert.
- Clark, Pete
- Clark, William, 1770-1838
- Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915
- Dye, Charles Henry, 1856-1929
- Dye, Emery C.
- Dye, Eva Emery, 1855-1947
- Dye, Trafton
- Himes, George H., 1844-1940
- Huggins, Anne.
- Huggins, Edward, 1832-1907
- Hutchinson, Eva Dye.
- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
- Lewis, Reuben.
- MacDonald, Ranald, 1824-1894
- McGillivray, Napoleon.
- McLoughlin, David, 1821-1903
- McLoughlin, John, 1784-1857
- Miller, Elizabeth B.
- Minto, John, 1822-1915
- Scholl, William T.
- Taylor, Mary Kennedy.
- Thwaites, Reuben Gold.
- Whiteley, Emery.
Corporate Names
- Hudson's Bay Company
- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
- Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association
Form or Genre Terms
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Ephemera.
- Genealogies.
- Letters.
- Manuscripts.
- Notes.
- Poems.
- Publications.
- Reviews.
- Speeches.