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
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:
Eva Emery Dye also contributed her literary talents to at least two
other prominent publications: the chapter, "Historical Sketch of Oregon City"
in
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.
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.
The collection is arranged into the following series:
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.
The collection is open to the public.
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.
Eva Emery Dye Papers, Mss1089, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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.
Gift of Eva Emery Dye (Accession nos. 246, 293, 377, and 8297). Gift of Charles R. Hutchinson, 1997 (Accession no. 23609).
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
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
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,
The collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:
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.
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
A.C. McClurg & Co., Bethenia Owens Adair, Arthur C. Alexander, Dudley Allen, Margaret Allen, and author unidentified (re.Joseph Bisonette).
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.
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.
Henry A.M. DeChesne, John T. Dizney, Kittie Spargur Douglas, Carl G. Drury, Saidie Orr Dunbar, William Duncan, and Florence L. Dye.
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.
William D. Fenton, J.B. Finley, Leslie E. Fislar, John Flett, William G. Flett, and William G. Frost and Eleanor M. Frost.
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.
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.
Preservation photocopies are Folder 17.
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.
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.
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.
George W. McBride, Donald F. McCarthy, Angus McDonald, Donald McDonald, Duncan McDonald, J.H. McMillen, W.H. McMonies, and Charles L. McNary.
Son of Dr. John McDonald of Fort Vancouver (Hudson's Bay Co.) and Oregon City, Oregon
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.
Glenn W. Ranck, J.W. Redington, Willard H. Rees, Frank Branch Riley, G. Collier Robbins, J.R. Robertson, and Donald Ross.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Charles Aldrich, Henry Altman, and Laura Armstead.
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.
Typescript and hand written transcripts only of original letters to his brother, to John Marks, to the Pottawattamie Nation, and to Charbonneau.
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.
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.
J.G. Jacob, Thomas Jefferson (handwritten transcript of
letter to George Rogers Clark, 1783, with comments of Frederick Jackson Turner
copied from the
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.
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.
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),
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).
Hammond Tarr, Mary M. Trevitt (Mrs. Victor Trevitt), Frederick Jackson Turner, and L.G. Tyler.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[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,
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,
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).
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.
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York
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.
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.
Includes program from Belasco Theatre production and letter from Phil Rogaway.
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.
Eva Emery Dye's lyrics of
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
Adapted from
Chapter is not listed in contents page of manuscript but is in the published work.
Author's title: "Oregon City: County Seat of Clackamas and First Capital of Oregon"
The testimonial is a letter from Sanford B. Dole, former president of Hawaii, dated June 24, 1923.
Dedicated to her cousin Charlotte, "Who Came to Lahainaluna When Hawaii Was A Kingdom."
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.
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).
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.
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" [
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
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.
Press clippings advertising, announcing and reviewing Eva
Emery Dye's first two published books,
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
Contents duplicate many items in the scrapbook in Folder 2, with the following additions:
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.
"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
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.
In addition to notes, this subseries includes a group of published materials that Eva Emery Dye collected while researching her book on Hawaii.
Includes "List of Lewis and Clark's Men," notes on Lewis and Clark Journals and on Sacajawea.
Major topics covered include the British warship,
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.
Materials in this subseries are arranged alphabetically by last names of the authors.
[Biography of Elizabeth Basham Miller]
[Biography of Maria Elder Watson]
"History of the Barlow Road," typescript extract from
"Reminiscences of Seventy Years,"
"How Colonel T.R. Cornelius and Party Crossed the Plains,"
(12th in series, "Pioneer Days"),
"Pioneers Who Helped to Make Oregon" [memoir of the Locey and Hatch families]
Biographical sketch of Napoleon McGillivray, with letter, Eva Emery Dye to Himes, 1905 April 10
"Fifty Years of Japan," article by managing editor for
projected monthly magazine,
"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).
"The Occasional Address" delivered at Oregon Pioneer
Association reunion, 1887. Published version (photocopy included),
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.
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.
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.
J.D. Hannan, W.C. Hawley, Samuel Herrick, George L. Hutchin (Portland Rose Festival), C.T. Locey, Wallace McCamant, and Judson Smith.
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).
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.
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."
Mrs. ? Ackerman, Iroline Dye, William M. Emery, Sandy Marcus, Margaret Wieneke, and Winifred ?
L.S. Wright re. vegetable seeds and L.C. Simms re. property management
Articles cover Eva Emery Dye and her writing, family, friends, World War I, and construction of an aluminum plant in Vancouver, Washington.
Charman was a long-time friend from Oregon City. Later correspondence is addressed to "Everett and Jean." Jean was Everett's second wife.
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.
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).
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.
Transcribed by Jeff Davis from microfilm in the possession of the Oregon Historical Society, 2003.