Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html
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Collection Number:
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Coll. 232B
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Creator:
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Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915
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Title:
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Abigail Scott Duniway Papers
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Dates:
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1852-1992 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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9.25 linear feet
27 containers
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in English.
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Summary:
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Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1915) moved to Oregon from Illinois in 1852 with her family on the Oregon Trail and kept a detailed journal of their travels. Duniway was later a key leader of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, and she aided the national effort. This expansive collection contains her correspondence, published and unpublished literary works, documents pertaining to the suffrage movement, and a considerable amount of newspaper clippings reporting on Duniway's political and social work.
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Biographical Note
Abigail Jane Scott was born in Tazewell County, Illinois, on October 22, 1834. She was the third of twelve children of Ann Roelofson and John Tucker Scott. Abigail, whose family nickname was "Jenny," received only about 12 months of formal education. The Scotts crossed the plains to Oregon when Abigail was 17-years-old, and she kept the family journal of their journey. Her mother and youngest brother, Willie, died en route to Oregon. Abigail's journal served as the basis of her 1859 novel Captain Gray's Company, the first commercially printed novel in Oregon.
Duniway (then Scott) became a teacher in the small town of Cincinnati (now Eola), Oregon, while her family ran an inn in Lafayette. There, she met Benjamin Charles Duniway and married him August 2, 1853. The newlyweds moved to Ben's Clackamas County farm. After a few years, the Duniways moved to Yamhill County where Abigail started to write her first novel as well as anonymous letters to local newspapers. The Duniways lost their farm because Ben cosigned loans for a friend who defaulted following a catastrophic flood. The Duniways then moved to Lafayette, where Abigail taught school and ran a millinery shop while Ben created a washing machine and bred horses.
Duniway's thoughts and writings began to turn to suffrage in the 1860s. In 1871, she moved her family to Portland and, in May of that year, launched her weekly newspaper, The New North West. She also began to lecture throughout the Northwest along with nationally-renown suffragist Susan B. Anthony. Duniway sold her newspaper in 1886.
The Duniways had six children: Clara, Willis, Hubert, Wilkie, Clyde and Ralph. Clara died at a young age in 1886. Willis went on to be State Printer; Hubert became a lumber exporter; Wilkie was a printer for various Portland papers; Clyde became a professor and president of three universities, and Ralph was a prominent Portland attorney. Ben Duniway died in 1896.
Abigail Duniway was an indefatigable supporter of women's suffrage. She encountered personal set-backs such as poor health, money problems, and opposition from her brother Harvey Scott, who edited a local paper, The Portland Oregonian. She persisted despite political opposition in the form of local resistance, the consistent failure of women's suffrage referendums on state ballots, and divisions with Eastern suffrage organizations. This persistence paid off in 1912 when Oregon became the seventh state in the Union to pass a women's suffrage amendment. Governor Oswald West asked Duniway to write the proclamation for his signature. Duniway had the honor of being the first woman to register to vote in Multnomah County. During this period she also authored numerous novels. Abigail Jane Scott Duniway died on October 11, 1915.
Source: Moynihan, Ruth Barnes. Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway (Yale University Press, 1983). Coll. 232B, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
- Series I: Suffrage Records
- Series II: Family Correspondence
- Series III: Non-family Correspondence
- Series IV: Oregon Trail Journal (1852)
- Series V: Literary Works by Abigail Scott Duniway
- Series VI: Literary Works by Others (alphabetical by author)
- Series VII: Family Records
- Series VIII: Biographical Information on Abigail Scott Duniway
- Series IX: Miscellany
- Series X: Scrapbooks
- Series XI: Oversize
Content Description
Suffrage Correspondence, the first category, contains letters concerning Abigail Scott Duniway’s work in the suffrage movement.
The second subsection is Family Correspondence, consisting of letters both to and from Abigail Scott Duniway. Most letters are from Abigail to her son Clyde; the topics range from politics and religion to local family news.
The third subsection is Non-Family Correspondence, containing letters concerning Abigail’s books, portraits, and letter after her death.
The category 1852 Journal contains the original 1852 Overland Journal which Duniway kept as her family crossed the plains, as well as a photocopied 1853 revision and typed copy galley proofs. Business records of Covered Wagon Women are also included.
Manuscripts (Abigail Scott Duniway) contains nearly three boxes of Abigail’s writings. They are further divided into Unpublished and Published. These boxes contain notes, speeches, poems, serialized novels, rough and final copies of novel manuscripts, stories, pamphlets, and a few copies of the New NorthWest. (The novel Captain Gray’s Company can be found in the Rare Books Collection. Other published books and novels by Duniway can be found in the Oregon Collection.)
The category Manuscripts By Others comprises published and unpublished speeches, pamphlets, and notes. Highlights include Clyde A. Duniway’s "My Memories of Abigail Scott Duniway."
Business Papers include deeds, public records and trust account ledgers, as well as various miscellaneous records.
Biographical Information contains mostly newspaper articles about Duniway before and after her death. Also included are fictional radio scripts.
The Miscellany category contains a variety of items pertaining to Abigail Scott Duniway, including a steel engraving print, Suffrage Hymn sheet music, and a copy of Duniway’s Path Breaking. Of note is Duniway’s 2-volume set of scrapbooks that she compiled herself.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information Gift of David Duniway in 1995
Processing Note Collection processed by Amber Davis, Veta Schlimgen, and Amanda Faber, Manuscripts Processors, April 2006.
Separated Materials Photographs in this collection are stored separately under call number PH246.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Abigail Scott Duniway Papers, Coll. 232B, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Subjects
This 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.
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| Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 |
| DeVoe, Emma Smith, 1858-1927 |
| Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915 |
| Duniway, Abigail Scott, 1834-1915 |
| Duniway, C.A. (Clyde Augustus), 1866-1944 |
| Manuscripts for publication |
| Overland journals |
| Oregon National Historic Trail |
| Suffragists--Oregon |
| Women--Suffrage--Oregon |
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Series I:
Suffrage Records
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Subseries A:
Correspondence
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This correspondence arranged chronologically and is incoming and outgoing letters intermixed
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Correspondence
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March 14, 1895-April 2, 1897 |
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New York City, New York. Carrie Chapman [Catt] to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1895, March 14 |
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3 pages Catt is delighted the Republicans of Idaho are willing to back a suffrage amendment, but it is not enough. The women need to be organized. "You say that somebody says they will ask for Eastern help when they want it." Duniway should send help now, while there is money. Catt wants to hold a two day convention in Boise with Anthony, Shaw, Duniway, and DeVoe. "Now you know I do not consider Anthony a safe campaign, but she is good in conventions," "her name will certainly draw a larger audience." Catt wants to delay the work in Idaho a little. She would "value a great deal more the objections to an organizer." If she hadn't heard them so many times before by ignorant people, "who fear that it means the introduction of the old reputed short-haired woman with bloomers." "It is our duty to build up organizations."
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Senator Mitchell
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1897, February 3 |
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2 pages "You took council of your humble friend 24 years ago, and thus made a turning point in your career that led you to fame and honor...Will you listen to me now?" Duniway wants him to decline being a candidate for re-election and to suggest Rufus Mallory, M.C. [Scorye] T.T. Leer or Sol Hirsh or others. This would "checkmate" his enemies, and reunite the party. "Victory under present conditions would be even worse for you than defeat."
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Senator Mitchell
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1897, February 10 |
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4 pages Duniway responds to Senator Mitchell's letter concerning Duniway's exhortation to not run for office (February 3, 1897) Duniway explains she is not asking him to surrender, as he thinks, but to "rise above existing conditions and prove your greatness." By not running, it "would raise you up friends in all directions, and might result in your immediate and triumphant re-election." Duniway says that the senator is surrounded by men who limit his view of the future. Duniway supports Mitchell because he supports the movement.
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Oregon City, Oregon. C.H. Dye to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1897, April 2 |
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2 pages (Written on "Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association" Letterhead.)
Dye wants Duniway to ask Clyde [Dye] to come and speak at the Chautauqua program. Letter discusses expenses. Publication of The Pacific Empire has been suspended.
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Correspondence
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February 10, 1898-April 2, 1900 (?) |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Mrs. Colby
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1898, February 10 |
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3 pages Mrs. Colby thinks if women get the vote they "might vote away from men their favorite beverages." Duniway denies this. Discussion ensues. Calls for a unification.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Mrs. Hill
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1898, May 3 |
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2 pages (Written on Oregon Congress of Women Letterhead.) Short note on Washington Suffragists.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Harvey Scott
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1900, June 9 |
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1 page (Written on the back of "An Open Letter" by the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association.) Duniway states that The Oregonian has failed to give women the correct election returns. Duniway asks Harvey to overcome his sex and support the women of his family.
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Silverton, [Oregon?]. Mary A. Hubert to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1900, April 2 |
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1 page Likes The Pacific Empire, and is sending her payment for subscription.
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Correspondence
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March 22, 1905-June 1, 1906 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Mrs. Colby
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1905, March 22 |
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2 pages Duniway fears the previous day's meeting left a bad impression. Duniway hopes to dispel her fears through letter. Because of Colby's ignorance of local methods, she is doing the suffrage movement "infinite harm." Other "plain talk" is "needful." "If you will not let us alone you will be compelled to bear the blame of our defeat, as you so in Washington!" Includes The Oregonian editorial clipped from an undated 1906 edition titled "What Defeated Woman Suffrage?"
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Full page from The Evening Telegram
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1906, June 1 |
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Advertisement for voting yes on the Equal Suffrage Constitutional Amendment.
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Correspondence
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1906 |
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Abigail Scott Duniway to Editor of the Women's Club Department of The Journal
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1906, [undated] |
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2 pages Duniway offers some history of the local Women's Club and Suffrage movement.
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Correspondence
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June 30, 1906-July 28, 1906 |
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Abigail Scott Duniway to The Dalles Optimist
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1906, June 30 |
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1 page A Suffrage plea that includes thoughts on The Optimist's treatment of suffrage, prohibition and consumption of alcohol, and what needs to be done to overcome this. "Our present Local Option Law will keep the State in a constant ferment of intoxication in the interest of intemperance until it is made fair and honest by [an] equitable and fair amendment. But that can never be until the mother element in our humanity is allowed its liberty."
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to [Alice Stone?] Blackwell
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1906, July 28 |
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2 pages The chief gain of the last campaign is showing the national leaders that Duniway has a standing before the voters, which alone made the campaign possible. Her one mistake was allowing national subjects "to discuss for themselves that the two or three malcontents, who posed before them as it were, freaks out parasites, whom the public wouldn't follow." Colby is the greatest menace to the next campaign before stirring up strife between Duniway and the prohibitionists. "Your fool friend is always your worst enemy." To dispel rumor that Duniway retired from the cause and is leaving it to the prohibitionists will be her work for the next two years. "It is not my fault, though it seems to be my misfortune, that the public of the entire Pacific NW will persist in considering me the leader, and the voters will not recognize her."
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Correspondence
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July 30, 1906-October 1906 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Editor Post Express
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1906, July 30 |
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1 pages Duniway responds to a letter published in the Post Express. "The freaks of voters are as uncertain as the storms they raise from time to stay--they cannot stop--the inevitable triumph of Human liberty, which is based, not upon sex, or gender, but the abstract principle of right and justice." "Equal suffrage cannot be defeated where it has never been born." She compares the movement with Aeronauts, Oregon Pioneers, and slaves each overcoming their challenges. Duniway calls the men who voted no "18,000 ignorant and nomadic Hobos." She talks on prohibition and suffrage.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Wessenger
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1906, August 10 |
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1 pages Duniway is enclosing a letter, to be circulated only among honorable men and women. "There must be, a peaceable and just way to regulate the Liquor Traffic... and thus stop the intemperate agitation which keeps everybody in a turmoil of angry excitement..."
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Portland. Abigail Scott Duniway to Boyer
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1906, August 13 |
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2 pages Duniway encloses some recent clippings of public support. She wants the national officers to see them, as she knows that they want the next campaign to win. "And I am moral sure it will win if I am allowed to manage it." She is aware of how essential this sounds but all local people know she is right. Half of the needed signatures have been obtained due in part to Duniway's articles appearing in newspapers. Duniway complains about the National sub-agents, but is loyal to head office and officers. She says their blunders must not be repeated in Oregon. She was going to Newport, Oregon, to make an address.
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Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania. Anna Howard Shaw to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1906, September 14 |
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1 pages Reverend Shaw is sending back the previous letter and clipping explaining that she as well as others have seen them many times over from various sources. She thought it a waste of the national officers' time to continue its line of action, and she has sent the result to the Oregon State Society. She said she hopes Oregon women will quit antagonizing those who might be helpful to them.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Anna Howard Shaw
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1906, September 18 |
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2 pages (Written on Petition Invitee paper.) Duniway tells Reverend Shaw not to worry. The WCTU [Women's Christian Temperance Union] won't have time to organize a prohibition campaign. "We could do nothing, at all satisfactory, with the petitions, "till the 'controversy' which fills you with so much 'Sorrow' that it brings from you a coherent reply (as from one intoxicated)." Duniway has received letters from the leading men of Old Oregon who have supported her for 35 years. She complains about Colby ("the fool"). "You and your co-officers and agents are evidently working for organization, glory and salary." Duniway points out that if the National had needed her advice from 1889, it would "have led to the enfranchisement of woman in every Pacific Coast State." "Do you not notice? And can you not learn from experience that the national method not only never wins a state election, but can never even get a campaign started?"
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Abigail Scott Duniway Labeled Chapter Correspondence
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1906, October |
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2 pages Duniway doesn't have a copy of the letter to which she is replying. Duniway responds to the following letter by saying she was merely reporting to her what she had heard about the petition which later was found to be illegal. The letter following shows Shaw's "[ ? ] as suffragists, and her information that it was I [Shaw] who was 'disgusting men,' presumably by quarreling with them, became extremely laughable in the light of subsequent events." Duniway doesn't know what exactly was written about her to Shaw, but supposes they were from her very few individual opponents. "I was at that time, too busily engaged in resurrecting the suffrage ship her methods had wrecked."
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Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania. Anna Howard Shaw to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1906, September 12 |
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1pages (See September 18, 1906. Duniway to Shaw.)
Duniway's letter reached Shaw after her return from Europe. She cannot express her "deep sorrow" at the "unnecessary and unwise discussion in the public print between woman who ought, if they care for the cause over which they are contending, to know that nothing could bring more aid and comfort to the enemy than just such a futile controversy." This is successfully turning attention of the public from themselves and disgusting men for they would refuse to sign the suffrage petition." Shaw is not surprised that men are refusing to sign. She states Duniway had told her 6,000 names were on the petition when in fact Pease says there are about 2695 unverified and less than 2000 verified. She has also received word that "since this controversy has begun, men are refusing their signature" or signing false names. The National officers will communicate further with the state officers.
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Correspondence
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October 2, 1906-December 17, 1906 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Anna Howard Shaw
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1906, October 2 |
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1 pages (Open letter.) The national office has accused Duniway of lying and she tells them she will take them to court if they ever step in Oregon.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Dr. Annice F. Jeffereys-Myers (copy)
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1906, October 4 |
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3 pages Duniway has been called to Tillamook, Marion, Linn, Benton and Lincoln Counties to speak; this would allow growth as it did from 1871-1900, and would have achieved victory in 1906 "if the state had been allowed to consummate its own plan." Duniway gives some history of recent speeches and their reception. She says it will take work to restore the movement before the national workers took over, but it will be done if Duniway takes the state chair again. "God knows I do not want the Job; but I have dared greater things." Duniway left the state last fall so that the national officer could run their "stereotyped plan," even though they have never won a state election that way. She won't display the "while feather" again. Gregg from back east has written a letter to Duniway that is the first to show the "least disposition of National agent or officer to change its methods." Duniway wants $1500 from the national Association. She hope they will cast aside "personal ambition" and give Oregon "a fighting chance." The Oregonian is now with Duniway's cause, She will never cease personal sacrifice for liberty no matter who assails her.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Harriet Taylor Upton (copy)
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1906, October 13 |
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2 pages Duniway complains about the national methods and how they had an alliance with W.C.T.C. [Women's Christian Temperance Union] and caused "liberty to possess a tail to the Prohibition kites." If the next campaign is run the same way it will fail. " But it will not be run in the same way!" Colby, Luenna Johnson and "an old local cat on the state board" brought unfortunate conditions. Duniway is bringing back the leading people into the work despite the "stabs in the back given by Anna Shaw and Rachel Foster Avery of which I trust they will be ashamed."
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Boyer
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1906, December 17 |
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2 pages "Had a monkey and Parrot tire at the annual election!" The Prohibition contingent tried to take over but were defeated 2 to 1. Duniway elected State President. Her mood seems improved as she signs off "so Ta-Ta-dear!"
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Correspondence
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December 21, 1906 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Dr. Annice Jeffreys (copy)
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1906, December 21 |
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6 pages Letter gives an account of a speech to the Oregon Historical Society at the fourth annual meeting. "The instinct of enlightened government is the instinct of self preservation." She must protest two words in the State Constitution in the article of privileges and elections; "while" and "male." "Justice and liberty do [not] in one sex only: that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inherent in every individual." The men who are still alive that framed the State Constitution are in support of suffrage.
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Correspondence
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1906--April 2, 1907 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway copy of speech (given to either Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs or Women's Clubs of Portland)
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1906 [undated] |
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5 pages Speech on what women have achieved over the last 30 years. Duniway looks towards the future as a rally cry.
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New Orleans, Louisiana. Kate M. Gordon to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1907, March 22 |
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1 page Kate Gordon is the corresponding secretary of the NAWSA [National American Woman Suffrage Association] and she wrote on NAWSA letterhead. Gordon doesn't know how Duniway is going to keep the June 1908 election quiet until just before the election because the petitions must be turned in to the Secretary of State five months prior to the election.
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Portland, Oregon. Executive Committee of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage. Association to Executive Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. (copy)
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1907, April 2 |
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2 pages The State Executive Committee has approved the following lines of work
1. To return to the quiet method of procedure
2. To follow the lines of least resistance
3. To disclaim and disavow all affiliations with any and all political associations organized for any other purpose than to secure a majority for enfranchisement of women.
4. To only hold parlor and precinct meetings
5. To hire old soldiers to canvas for signatures for petitions
6. To charge $1.00 a head at meetings.
Also the State asks for $2,000 from the National Association. This is a two-part letter, the reply to the following is written on the second page and will be noted.
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Correspondence
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April 27, 1907-June 7, 1907 |
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New Orleans, Louisiana. Kate Gordon to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1907, April 27 |
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2 pages Apparently Duniway sent Gordon a letter with a clipping from a newspaper indicating that Duniway said that she had received letters from all National officers admitting their mistakes. Gordon says this is "absolutely without foundation," and demands Duniway release a press statement denying this. It is the very least the State Association owes to the National officers. "We do not acknowledge any errors on our part." Gordon points out an April McClures Magazine article that says the liquor, prostitution, and gambling elements put up over 300,000 dollars.
(Duniway apparently responds on the same letter, whether or not it was sent is unknown.)
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Kate Gordon
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1907, September 23 |
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Duniway cannot find the copy of her reply to the letter above. Blames local unauthorized new accounts for the erroneous clipping, "It is immaterial to us whether you do, or do "not acknowledge any errors on our (your) part." We all (know) they occurred..."
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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Anna H. Shaw to Abigail Scott Duniway (copy)
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1907, May 10 |
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2 pages The National Board has decided not to accept the State proposition. (see April 2, 1907 letter). The National office has never voted money to be expended by the State Associations without specific direction from the National Association, much less to have it given to a special committee upon which the president of the State could draw at discretion. She has sent an alternate for the National Business Committee and if approved it will be forwarded. Shaw says she hopes the work in Oregon will continue by getting signatures for petitions.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Kate Gordon (copy)
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1907, May 22 |
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1 pages Short note to tell Gordon that Duniway is sending an original reproduction of the proposal (from April 2, 1907). In a postscript she says "the petitions as planned by the National are pronounced illegal, as they contain no penalty clause, etc."
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Anna Howard Shaw (copy)
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1907, May 27 |
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1 pages Duniway has sent the petition used for the last election to Attorney General Crawford for study. He found that it would easily be attacked in Court. At her own expense Duniway is making up new "legal" petitions. The State committee is disappointed for the lack of financial support offered by the National Committee after they failed in the last campaign. Duniway was not surprised "as I looked for nothing else."
Duniway points out that in 1900, with a $100 contribution and no interference, the measure was just shy of 2,000 votes from passing. In 1906 with full support of the national the measure lost by over 10,000. "If they continue to withhold the help that, after their failure, is our dream..." Then Duniway will win anyhow "or die trying" and convince other states "that the National Association is composed chiefly of hot air."
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New Orleans, Louisiana. Kate Gordon to Abigail Scott Duniway (copy)
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1907, May 29 |
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1 pages Gordon has just received Duniway's copy of the letter she sent to President Shaw [see May 27, 1907. Duniway to Shaw.] Gordon doesn't wonder why Duniway doesn't like Shaw's reply since Gordon has already sent Duniway the business committee procedures.
The sum of $2,000 is beyond the power of the National to grant. Gordon believes that the work of the National is to assist only in securing signatures for petitions, and as 3,000 of these have been granted, $250 is all that is needed to gain the rest. This is all Duniway can expect to receive, but this is only a personal opinion. The "dreadful articles" in the Oregon paper about the National keep the National at bay concerning Oregon.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Kate Gordon
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1907, June 7 |
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3 pages [Draft?] (Written on Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association [OSESA] letterhead on reverse side is Declaration of Principles of the OSESA for Campaign 1907-1908). Duniway tells Gordon that if it wanted to, the National could assist the state. Duniway reminds her that she was loyal to the National during the last campaign, even though she knows what the Nationals were doing was a mistake. The "Dummy Bull" was going to be taken by the horns, according to one member of the National Committee. But Duniway "dodged the lariat and fell obediently into line, loyally carrying the National banner." As president of the State she will bring back the state of the movement to where it was in 1905. Duniway could easily raise the $500 she needs by publishing the correspondence between State and National, but won't. Duniway holds no animosity towards any National officer and has forgiven President Shaw for lying.
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New Orleans, Louisiana. Kate Gordon to Abigail Scott Duniway (copy)
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1907, June 7 |
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1 page Gordon resents the tone of a letter sent to President Shaw, and resents the manner in which Duniway expresses her opinion of the National's handling of affairs, "your lack of dignity reflects sadly upon you as the leader of the State."
Gordon said she would recommend that the National withdraw from Oregon. The judgment of the board was correct, "the only thing that could be done for Oregon was "to leave her securely alone."
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Correspondence
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June 7, 1907-September 9, 1907 |
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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Anna Shaw to Abigail Scott Duniway (original and copy)
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1907, June 10 |
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2 pages This is a very cordial letter stating that Shaw has no information regarding the budget proposal. Shaw wants a copy of the Attorney General's letter about the illegal petition [see May 27, 1907 Duniway to Shaw]. The National will help as it sees fit after all the petitions are secure.
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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Anna Shaw to Abigail Scott Duniway (original and copy)
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1907, June 24 |
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1 page Shaw has received Duniway's letter of the 18th with the enclosed letter of the Attorney General. Shaw mentions that she works with so many wealthy and influential persons on the Advisory Board, she asks why they haven't come to Duniway's assistance.
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Warren, Ohio. Kate Gordon to Oregon State Executive Committee
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1907, September 9 |
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1 page By a vote of a sub-committee of the Business committee, it was decided to send the "full" correspondence on Oregon to them so they can see why the National Association could not justify a continuance of any financial co-operation with the state, (includes copies of letters dated May 22, 27, 29; June 7, 10, and 24, all from 1907.)
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Correspondence
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September 16, 1907-December 9, 1908 |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Kate Gordon
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1907, September 16 |
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2 pages Duniway thanks Gordon for the letter copies. She implies that Gordon has deliberately left out some letters, but it is acceptable as Duniway has copies that she will release to the press which will do more good than the modest sum of $2,000 they had decided. Duniway says that the National Executive Committee is dodging and evading financial and moral obligation. At the present, Duniway will hold the correspondence for the press.
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Abigail Scott Duniway to Editor of Oregon Agriculture College Barometer (photocopy)
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1908, April 20 |
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2 pages Duniway sends to the Barometer a "declaration of Principles of the OSESA" [Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association] with the hope that it will be published.
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Financial statement prepared by Duniway
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1908, August |
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Carrie Chapman Catt
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1908, December 9 |
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1 page Duniway has talked with Sarah Evans who advised against circulating another petition at this time. A citizen's suffrage bill might come up before the Legislature in February. "The amendment now on, will be recalled on an amendment substituted, for full suffrage in 1910." They need a deposit of $1,000 in cash for the gathering of 20,000 signatures in 6 weeks.
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Correspondence
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February 8, 1909-January 30, 1912 |
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Copy of resolution of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association's Executive Committee
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1909, February 8 |
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1 page The resolution is an appeal to add to the following article to the City of Portland's' Charter: "It is hereby provided that no resident, tax-paying citizen of the municipality of Portland shall be denied the right to vote on account of sex."
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Portland, Oregon. C.F. Wiegand to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1909, February 9 |
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1 page (Written on letterhead of the Office of the Auditor of the City of Portland.) Wiegand says he is directed by the committee on Charles Revision to inform Duniway that on technical reasons they will not add to the charter the clause submitted by the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association. However, if the clause was resubmitted as a separate proposition it would receive support.
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Ontario, Oregon. Estelle Dodge to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1911, February 14 |
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1 page (Written on The Ontario Optimist letterhead.) Dodge supports the cause and wishes Duniway to tell her how she can help.
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First Open Meeting of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association held by Louise Bryant
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1911, December |
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4 pages The notes quote various speakers at the meeting.
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Portland, Oregon. Sarah A. Evans to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, January 30 |
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1 page (Written on Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs letterhead.) Evans is responding to Duniway's letter (not included) and answering Duniway's choice of scenery. Evans says she can only guess at what Duniway is referring to. A note on the bottom of the letter by Duniway dated April 5, 1914, says "the secrecy to which Evans alludes, was her determination to decline the maker, leader and founder of the campaign - myself."
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Correspondence
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February 1912-September 1912 |
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Pamphlet, "A Nineteenth Century Constitution and Twentieth Century Needs" by Alice Henry (published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association)
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February, 1912 |
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3 pages
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway to Executive Board of Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association
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1912, February 27 |
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1 page A declaration announcing that Sarah A. Evans has resigned from the position on the National Committee representing Oregon.
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Portland, Oregon. George Roosevelt to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, September 11 |
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1 page Thank you note for flowers given to a Colonel Roosevelt.
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San Francisco, California. Selina Solomons poem dedicated to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, September |
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3 pages
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Correspondence
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October 18, 1912-October 22, 1912 |
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O. Russet to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 18 |
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3 pages A short letter thanking Duniway for her work and wishing her a Happy Birthday.
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Sacramento, California. Laura Grace Riddell to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 21 |
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1 page Birthday Greetings.
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Salem, Oregon. Willis Duniway to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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1 page Birthday Greetings.
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Portland, Oregon. Alexander Bernstein to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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1 page Birthday Greetings.
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The Dalles, Oregon. Milton A. Miller to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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1 page Birthday Greetings.
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Correspondence
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October 22, 1912-November 8, 1912 |
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Medford, Oregon. Medford Equal Suffrage Club to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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1 page Birthday Greetings.
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Portland, Oregon. Irene Smith Calbreath to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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3 pages Calbreath writes an encouraging letter praising Duniway.
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Portland, Oregon. Lilian M. Hackleman to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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2 pages Birthday Greetings
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Portland, Oregon. [G. E.] Sharon to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, October 22 |
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1 page On I.O.O.F. letterhead. Birthday Greetings.
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Aberdeen, Washington. Dora and Robert to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, November 8 |
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1 page Congratulations on the victory.
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Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Women Suffrage Party to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, November 8 |
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1 page Congratulations on the victory.
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New York, New York. National Suffrage Association to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, November 8 |
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1 page Congratulations on the victory. "Long Live Oregon Man."
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Chicago, Illinois. Illinois Equal Suffrage Association to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, November 8 |
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1 page Congratulations on the suffrage victory.
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Correspondence
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November 19, 1912-[undated] 1912 |
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St. Louis, Missouri. Eva Perry Move to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, November 19 |
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1 page (Written on General Federation of Women's Clubs letterhead.) Birthday Greetings and congratulations on the victory.
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Ontario, Oregon. Estelle Riddle Dodge to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, December 11 |
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3 pages Dodge requests a 200-300 word essay and a photograph from Duniway that Dodge can print in the local paper.
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Portland, Oregon. Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, [undated] |
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2 pages Draft of a letter encouraging men to support suffrage
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Portland, Oregon. Fred Lockley to Abigail Scott Duniway
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1912, [undated] |
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2 pages Congratulations on the victory.
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Oregon State Association Opposed to the Execution of the Suffrage to Women
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1912, [undated] |
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1 page Open letter to men of Oregon to stop implementation of suffrage amendment.
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Correspondence
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September 24, 1912-September 13, 1913 |
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San Francisco, California. Selena Solomons to Abigail Scott Duniway
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