Correspondence, diaries, journals, records, research notes,
clippings, photos, mss. of writings, and other papers, relating to Drury's
research on Congregational and Presbyterian missions established by the Oregon
Mission of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to work with
Pacific Northwest Indians, including Cayuse, Nez Percé, and Spokane Indians,
and concerning the following missionaries: Marcus Whitman, Narcissa (Prentiss)
Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza (Hart) Spalding, Elkanah Walker, Mary
(Richardson) Walker, Cushing Eells, Myra (Fairbanks) Eells, Asa Bowen Smith,
Sarah Gilbert (White) Smith, William Henry Gray, Mary Augusta (Dix) Gray, Henry
Thomas Cowley, and Lucy Abigail (Peet) Cowley; and personal correspondence
(1938-1983). Subjects include the Whitman Massacre (1847) and Whitman Mission
National Historic Site. Bulk of material relates to research for Drury's
First White Women over the Rockies: Diaries, Letters of the Six
Women of the Oregon Mission, 1836 and 1838 (published 1963,
1966).
Repository:
Eastern Washington State Historical
Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives
2316 W. First Avenue Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: (509) 363-5313 Fax: (509) 363-5303 Email: archives@northwestmuseum.org
Languages:
Materials are in
English
Sponsor:
Funding for encoding this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Biographical Note
Clifford Merrill Drury was born November 7, 1897 in Early, Iowa, the
son of William and Mae Dell Drury. His first academic degree was an A.B. from
Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa. He served in the Chemical Warfare
Service of the United States Army at Yale University in 1918. In 1919 he
transferred to the American Red Cross at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. Following his
term in the service, Drury enrolled in San Francisco Theological Seminary at
San Anselmo, California. He received his degree and was ordained in the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church in 1922. That same year, on November 17, he
married Miriam Mayhew Leyrer.
After serving for a time as assistant pastor to a Berkeley, California
church, he went to Shanghai, China, where, from 1923-1927, he accepted the
position of pastor in the Community Church. Drury returned to the United States
in 1928 and accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church in Moscow, Idaho,
1928-1938.
While at Moscow, Drury became interested in the history of the Oregon
Mission of the Presbyterian Church, and began the research that would occupy
the remainder of his life. The results of his research were twelve published
volumes on the history of the Protestant missions in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1932 Drury was awarded a PhD from the University of Edinburgh,
specializing in historical subjects. As a distinguished author and educator he
received honorary degrees from Buena Vista College, Iowa; Whitworth College and
Whitman College, both in Washington State.
Drury became professor of church history at San Francisco Theological
Seminary in 1938 where he served until his retirement in 1963. During this
period he was also chaplain in the United Stated Naval Reserve, 1933-1958,
including a stretch of active duty, 1941-1946, and the official historian of
the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy from 1944-1956.
Content Description
The collection includes Drury’s source materials (both originals and
copies); research notes; and correspondence regarding Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman, Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, and Henry Harmon Spalding,
1934-1966. The bulk of the material related to his research for the
three-volume work,
First White Women over the Rockies, letters of the Six Women of
the Oregon Mission, 1836 and 1838 (Arthur C. Clark: 1963, 1966). Also
included is Drury’s personal correspondence, 1938-1983.
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available :
Microfilm copy at repository.
Restrictions on Access :
Collection is not restricted.
Restrictions on Use :
Collection is open for use.
Preferred Citation :
Clifford M. Drury Collection (Ms 17), Eastern Washington State
Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.
Administrative Information
Location of Originals :
Some materials are copies; see inventory for locations of
originals.
Acquisition Information :
Purchased by the Joel E. Ferris Foundation from Clifford M. Drury,
1961-1963 (Accession #1527.231); gift of Clifford M. Drury, 1960 (Accession
#843.2); and gift of Robert M. Drury, 1984 (Accession #L84-342).
Processing Note :
Processed to the file folder level.
Researchers should be aware that the collection was first organized by
more than one processor. Thus, the revised inventory may appear somewhat
disjointed. The researcher is cautioned to read the whole inventory before
beginning work.
Separated Materials :
Other portions of Drury’s papers have been deposited at Washington
State University, Pullman, WA; Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID;
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; and the Presbyterian Historical Society,
Philadelphia, PA.
Bibliography :
Drury, Clifford M.,
The Beginnings of Talmaks: Galloping over the
Butte; the Introduction of the Fourth of July Address at Talmaks Camp Meeting,
1858 (Craigmont, Idaho: David H. Crawford, 1958).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Chief Lawyer of the Nez Perce Indians,
1796-1876 (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1979).
Drury, Clifford M. ed.,
The Diaries and Letters of Henry H. Spalding and
Asa Bowen Smith Relating to the Nez Perce Mission, 1838-1942 (Glendale,
California: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1958).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Elkanah and Mary Walker: Pioneers Among the
Spokanes (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1940).
Drury, Clifford M. ed.,
First White Women over the Rockies: Diaries,
Letters and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission Who
Made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838 (Glendale, California:
Arthur H. Clark Co., 1966).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Henry Harmon Spalding: Pioneer of Old
Oregon (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1936).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old
Oregon (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1973).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Marcus Whitman, M.D.: Pioneer and Martyr
(Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1937).
Drury, Clifford M.,
My Road from Yesterday: An Autobiography
(Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1984).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Nine Years with the Spokane Indians: The Diary,
1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark
Co., 1976).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Presbyterian Panorama (Philadelphia: Board
of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church U.S.A., 1952).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Randolph James Wig: Engineer, Pomona College
Trustees, Presbyterian Layman (Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark
Co., 1968).
Drury, Clifford M.,
A Tepee in His Front Yard: A Biography of H.T.
Cowley, One of the Four Founders of the City of Spokane, Washington
(Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1949).
Drury, Clifford M.,
William Anderson Scott: "No Ordinary Man"
(Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1967).
Drury, Clifford M.,
Four Hundred Years of World
Presbyterianism (San Anselmo, California: [s. n.], 1961).
Additional Reference Guides :
Nolan, Edward W.
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the
Eastern Washington State Historical Society (Spokane, WA: Eastern
Washington State Historical Society, 1987).
Related Materials :
Joel Edward Ferris Papers (Ms 7)
Robert H. Ruby, M.D., Papers (Ms 170)
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
" Ansum Burlinggame, China’s First U.S.
Ambassador" in
The Pacific Historian, Vol. 15,
No. 2., Stockton, CA, pp. 35-36
1971
Chaplain’s Corps, United States
Navy
Box/Folder
1/23
Drury, C.M.
The History of the Chaplains Corps,
United States Navy, 1778-1939, Vol. I. Washington D.C.: Bur. Naval
Personnel 15807
1/24
Drury, C.M.
The History of the Chaplains Corps,
United States Navy, 1778-1939, Vol. II. Washington D.C.: Bur. Naval
Personnel 15808
1/25
Drury, C.M.
United States Navy Chaplains,
1778-1945. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office.
1948
1/26
Drury, C.M.
History of the Chaplains Corps, United
States Navy, Vol. IV, 1946-1952. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government
Printing Office.
1953
1/27
Drury, C.M.
United States Navy Chaplains,
1953-1957. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office.
1957
1/28
Drury, C.M.
History of the Chaplains Corps, United
States Navy, Vol. Six – During the Korean War, 27 June 1950 – 27 June -
1954. Navpers 15936.
1/29
Church Programs –
Miscellaneous
1964-1971
1/30
Church Programs, Rotary and
Kiwanis Programs
1972-1981
1/31
" Chinese Postage Stamps" The China Journal of Arts and
Sciences, Vol. III, No. 10, pp. 530-535
1/32
Churches: First Congregational
Church Ladies Missionary Society, Spokane, WA. Photo
1/33
Comments on
Manuscripts
1/34
Columbia Material Association:
Constitution
1889 September 3
1/35
Cowley, Henry T.:
Photographs
1837-1917
1/36
Crawford, Mary M.
1933-1934
Correspondence
Box/Folder
2/1
Drury
1950 August 11-1973 June
5
2/2
A
1972-1983
2/3
Addison, Helen
1939-1941
2/3a
Alcorn, Rowena
1983 November
2/4
American Board of Commissioners
of Foreign Missions
1934-1938
2/5
American West Publishing
Company
1975-1980
2/6
Andrews, Tome
1974-1982
2/7
Appreciation
1951-1965
2/8
Articles
1976-1980
2/9
Avery, Mrs. Mary
1963-1973
2/10
Brock, Carol
1976-1980
2/11
Butler, Julia Ann
1969-1980
2/12
C
1944-1982
2/13
Caedmon Records
1974-1983
2/14
Caxton Printers
1962-1978
2/15
Clark, Mrs. Charles/Wyencoop,
Nettie
1940-1948
2/16
Clyde, Lola
1961-1980
2/17
Connette, Earle
1917-1976
2/18
Cowles, Mrs. W.H.
1964-1976
2/19
Crawford, Mary M.
1932-1942
2/21
Crawford, Richard
C.
1976
2/22
Culverwell, Al
1972-1982
2/23
Dodd, Lawrence L.
1978-1982
2/24
Eastern Washington State
Historical Society
1960-1961
2/25
Eastern Washington State
Historical Society
1962-1967
2/26
Eastern Washington State
Historical Society
1972-1978
2/27
Eastern Washington State
Historical Society
1973-1976
2/28
Eastern Washington State
Historical Society: Ferris-Cowles Gift
1950-1970
2/29
Edgar, E. H.
1934-1935
2/29a
Eells, Walter E.
1984 November 12
2/30
Elliott, T.C.
1926-1937
2/31
Ellsworth, S.
George
1973-1974
2/32
F
1946-1980
2/33
Fan Mail
1964-1972
2/34
Fan Mail
1936-1938
2/35
Fuller, George W.
1934-1935
2/36
Fulton, H. K.
1934-1935
2/37
G
1949-1983
2/38
Goldberg, Joshua L.
1965-1979
2/39
General Services
Administration
1954-1975
2/40
Hardin, Jr., Craig
1938
2/41
Holland, E. O.
1935-1946
2/42
Holland, E. O.
1947-1950
2/43
Hovey, Paul
1961-1982
2/44
Howe, Charlotte
1934-1937
2/45
Howe, J
1963-1982
2/46
Hulbert, P. and Stewart
Commission - Relative to Whitman
1934-1941
2/47
Josephy, Alvin M.
1959-1980
2/48
Keen, Hunter
1978-1979
2/49
Keller, Robert H.
1974
3/1
Kowrach, Rev.
Edward
1968-1979
3/2
Knuth, Priscilla
1975-1978
3/3
Larrison, Earl J.
1978
3/4
Le Roy, Bruce
1975-1981
3/5
Lesh, Keith M.
1965-1975
3/5a
Limouse, Dr. Arthur
H.
1935-1938
3/6
M
1949-1983
3/7
Marquis Biographical Library
Society
1967-1978
3/8
McGinnis, David
1979-1980
3/9
McKee, Ruth Karr
1938-1960
3/10
McKeen, Bill and
Betty
1989-1979
3/11
Miller, Eugene
1972-1977
3/12
Miller, W.B.
1978-1983
3/13
Miller, W.B.
1962-1981
3/14
Miles, David and
Beatrice
1976-1979
3/15
Miscellaneous
1947-1983
3/16
Montgomery, Jim
1972-1979
3/17
Morrill, Clifford and
Miriam
1963-1980
3/18
National Archives
1957-1972
3/19
O
1958-1981
3/19a
Oliphant, J. Orin
1936-1937
3/20
Oregon Historical
Society
1960-1980
3/21
P
1946-1981
3/22
Pacific Northwest
Quarterly
1973-1977
3/22a
Penrose, S. B. L.
1935-1937
3/23
Picture Rights
1968-1973
3/24
Platt, Kenneth
1966-1980
3/25
Q
1968-1976
3/26
Rehberg, Goldie
1972-1973
3/27
Reed, Rose
1972
3/28
Reisner, Neil
1968-1979
3/29
Research Subjects
1934-1950
3/30
Research Subjects
1951-1976
3/31
Rose, Sister
Margaret
1948-1978
3/32
Rowe, Robert A.
1977
3/33
Ruby, Dr. Robert
1965-1979
3/34
Seagle, Robert
1975-1976
3/35
Shaffner
1959-1972
3/35a
Smith, Richard W.
1964
3/36
Smithsonian
Institution
1948-1978
3/37
Sparks, Mrs.
Marilyn
1969-1976
3/37a
Spalding Family -
Drury
1928-1956
3/38
T
1972-1977
3/39
Tacoma Television
1979
3/39a
Talkington, H. L.
1934-1935
3/40
Taylor, W. W.
1978-1979
3/41
Thompson, Albert W.
1970 June-1972 June
3/42
Thompson, Albert W.
1973-1975
3/43
Thompson, Albert W.
1972 June-1982 November
3/44
University of Puget
Sound
1967
3/45
Vance Orchard
1970-1972
3/45a
Vicker, Headley A.
1934-1935
3/46
Vuolo, Brett Harvey
1974
3/47
Waite, Dr.
Frederick
1934
3/48
Waite, Dr.
Frederick
1935
3/49
Waite, Dr.
Frederick
1936
3/50
Waite, Dr.
Frederick
1937
4/1
Walker, S.T. and
Others
1932-1939
4/2
Walker, Nellie
1961-1976
4/3
Walla Walla
1979
4/4
Walla Walla Trip
1978-1979
4/5
Ware, M.
1979
4/6
Washington State Historical
Society
1966-1972
4/7
Washington State
University
1958-1978
4/8
Weddings as Chaplain in the
Navy
1942-1946
4/9
Williams, Jack R.
1972-1975
4/10
Woodbridge, Ross
1970-1980
4/10a
“Compo, Charles”, C.M. Drury in
Itafen –
Mountain Men VIII, Glendale, CA,
Arthur Clark Col, pp. 87-93.
1971 February
Henry T. Cowley
Box/Folder
4/11
Cowley, Henry T.: The Story of
1971 April 7
4/12
Cowley, Henry T.:
Correspondence Relating to Land Patent – Litigation on Land Claim
4/13
Cowley: Biography,
Photographs
4/14
Cowley Letters
4/15
Ms: “A Tepee in His Front
Yard," pp. 1-97
4/16
Ms: “A Tepee in His Front
Yard," pp. 98-170 and appendices
4/17
Craig, William: Biography and
Photographs
4/18
Craig: Miscellany
4/19
Deffenbach, George: Photograph of
Letter about the Perce Mission
4/20
Deffenbaugh:
Miscellany
4/21
Dunbar, John and Parker, Samuel:
Miscellany
Cushing/Eells
Box/Folder
4/22
Miscellany
4/23
Clippings
4/24
Photographs
4/25
Research Notes from Eells
Collection, Whitman College
4/26
Myra Eells. Ms.: “Mother
Eells”
4/27
Myra Eells. “The Trials and
Heroism of the Pioneer Woman.”
Proceedings of the Washington Pioneer
Association, Pullman, WA
1903-1904
4/28
Ms: Reminiscences
1882-1892
First White Women Over the
Rockies
Box/Folder
4/29
Original Plan Submitted to
Arthur H. Clarke
1939
4/30
Ms - Vol. I., pp. 1-146 -
Introduction, Mrs. Marcus Whitman
4/31
Ms - Vol. I., pp. 147-310 –
Mrs. Spalding Gray, Smith
4/32
Ms - Vol. I -
Footnotes
4/33
Ms - Vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 162
& Appendices
4/34
Vol. 2, pt 2: pp. 163-262 –
Mrs. Walker, 1841-1846
4/35
Vol. 2, pt. 2: pp. 263-304
& Index – Mrs. Walker, 1847-1877
4/36
Vol. 3: Introduction I Preface
- Diary of Sarah Smith, Mar. 16, 1838 – Sep. 14, 1839
4/37
Vol. 3: Letters of Asa Bowen
Smith, Mar. 20, 1838 – Feb. 3, 1842.
4/38
Vol. 3: Journals – Gray &
Walker, Reminiscences of Eels
4/39
Correspondence relating to
MS
1959-1967
4/40
Galley Proof of Vol.,
1-2
1963
5/1
Galley Proofs
(Continued)
1963
5/2
Paging and Captions for
Illustrations, Table of Contents
1963
5/3
Book Notices and
Comment
1965
5/4
" First White Women Over the
Rockies," Journal of the Presbyterian Historical
Society.
1961 March
5/5
" First White Women Over the
Rockies," in
The Presbyterian.
1936 May 7
5/6
Research Notes
5/7
Flandreau, Grace.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, and
Koo-Koo-Sint. St. Paul, MN: The Great Northern Railway
5/8
Genealogies
5/9
Gray, William Henry,
1810-1885 – Miscellany
5/10
Gray, William Henry –
Photographs
5/11
Greene, David: Letters and
Miscellany
5/12
Griffin, J.S.: Biography and
Photographs
5/13
Griffin, J.S., Ms:
" A Historic Sketch, Description of
Jesuit Warfare."
1881
5/14
Hayes, James – Letters to Kate
McBeth on Missionary Work
1808 July 27
5/15
Hudson’s Bay Co. Archives:
Letters and Notes (Relating Also to Spalding and Spokane Gary)
5/16
" Idaho’s First Mill," Seeing Idaho, p. 8
1937 October
Indians
Box/Folder
5/17
Groups –
Photographs
5/18
Individual Photographs – Rev.
Marcus Arthur, Enoch - Garry
5/19
Individual Photographs – McAtee
– Minithorn – Moses – No Horn on His Head - Elder John Frank
5/20
Individual Photographs – Rabbit
Skin-Leggings – Roma – Mrs. Scott-Til-Au-Kite – Timothy – Tomahas – Billy
Williams
5/21
Individual
Photographs
5/22
Miscellany – Chief
Joseph
5/23
Miscellany –
Clippings
5/24
General
5/25
Indians of the Pacific
Northwest. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
1968
5/26
Tribe Photographs – Flathead –
Nez Perce
5/27
Tribe Photographs – Spokane –
Umatilla - Cayuse
5/28
Brown, J. Ross.
" Indian War in Oregon and Washington
Territories" . Report, 35th Congress, First Session, HRexdox38,
Washington, D.C.
1858
Indians: Nez Perce
Box/Folder
5/29
" Another Myth Answered," The Pacific Historian, Vol.
17, No. 1, pp. 43-46. " Don Chase’s Rejoinder to Dr.
Drury," The Pacific Historian, Vol.
17, No. 1, pp. 49-52.
1973
5/30
First Presbyterian Church,
Kamiah, Idaho.
Centennial of the Nez Perce Indians’
Seeking for White Man’s Book of Heaven, 1832-1932, Lewiston
News.
A Chronology of Protestant Beginnings in
California. San Francisco: Centennial Committee of Northern California,
Western Council of Churches.
1947 June
6/6
Early Labors of the
Missionaries of the American Board in Oregon.” Fourth Congress, 3rd Session,
Senate Ex. Doc, 37.
6/7
History of the Catholic
Missions in the Pacific Northwest
6/8
History of the Protestant
Missions in the Pacific Northwest
6/9
Mission at Lapwai (McBeth):
Photograph
6/10
Mission Letters and Minutes
(Coe Collection, Yale University)
1838-1849
6/11
Mission Minutes (As Published
in Minutes of the Synod of Washington)
1903
6/12
Mission and Mission School at
Winnipeg, Canada
6/13
Mission Site Tour
1969
6/14
John M. Canse.
" The Oregon Mission – Its
Transition," The Washington Historical Society
Quarterly, Vol. XXV, No. 3. pp. 203 ff.,
1934 July
6/15
Ms: Oregon Mission Maternal
Association
1958
6/16
Pioneer Congregations –
Photographs
6/17
" Negative Report on Oregon – W.H.
Ashley, W.P. Hunt, and J.S. Green," Western Brand Book No. 13., Los
Angeles Corral.
1969
6/18
Senate Executive Document #37 –
Miscellany
1871 February
6/19
" The Spokane Indian Mission at
Tshimakain, 1838-1849," Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 1-9
1976 January
6/20
Stained Glass Windows in
Stewart Memorial Chapel of San Francisco Theological Seminary
1955 May
6/21
Waiilatpu Mission – Grounds and
Houses
6/22
The Missionary
Herald
1839
6/23
Overmeyer, Philip H.
" Nathaniel Jarvie Wyeth," Washington Historical Quarterly,
Vol. XXIV, No. 1, pp. 28ff " Early Letter from the Methodist
Mission," Washington Historical Quarterly,
Vol. XXIV, No. 1, pp. 53 ff
1933 January
6/24
Newsletters (Drury)
1936; 1973
Northwest
Box/Folder
6/25
Miscellaneous Clippings and
Periodicals Relating to Early Northwest History
6/26
Miscellaneous Notes and Book
Reports Relating to Early Northwest History
6/27
Olophant, J. Orin.
" A Project for a Christian Mission
on the Northwest Coast of America, 1798," Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
Vol. 36, No. 2., pp. 99 ff
1945 April
6/27a
Ms:
" Pioneer Beginnings in the Pacific
Northwest"
1941 July 15
6/28
Milo Wesley Goss. “The
Northwest Pioneer” – A Series of Radio Broadcasts
1938
Oregon Country
Box/Folder
6/29
Oregon Country
Clippings
6/30
Maps of Oregon
Country
6/31
Photographs
6/32
“Historic Champoeg” and
“Champoeg State Park”
6/33
Post Card Showing the Dining
Room of the John McLoughlin House
6/34
Oral History by
Drury
6/35
Oregon Trail Photographic
Material
6/36
Stewart, George R.
" The Source of the Name
Oregon," Journal of the American Names
Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 13-16
1967 September
6/37
Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer
Association for 1897, Portland, Or: George H. Himes,
Printers
