Wilson-McAdoo Collection

http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9n39p3gw No online items Wilson-McAdoo Collection Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision D. Tambo. Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: special@library.ucsb.edu URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/ 1999-2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 1

Guide to the Wilson-McAdoo Collection, ca. 1859-1967 Collection number: Bernath Mss 18 Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara Contact Information: Department of Special Collections Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Fax: (805) 893-5749 Email: special@library.ucsb.edu URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/ Processors: Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision D. Tambo. Date Completed: Apr. 7, 1999 Latest revision: May 9, 2008 Encoded by: Todd Chatman; A. Demeter 1999-2012 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Wilson-McAdoo Collection Dates: ca. 1859-1967 Collection number: Bernath Mss 18 Collection size: 10 linear feet (21 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and 3 sound recordings). Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Physical Location: Boxes 1-16 (SRLF); Boxes 17-21 (Del Norte); Boxes 22-23 (Del Norte Oversize); sound recordings (Annex 2). Abstract: Three series: (1) Personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson's daughters Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, her husband William Gibbs McAdoo, and their two children Ellen Wilson Mcadoo Henshaw and Mary Faith McAdoo Haddad; (2) Personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson, his first wife Ellen Axson Wilson, and their two children Margarent Woodrow Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre; (3) Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the Wilson family, and typescripts of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo's three books. Languages: English, French Access Restrictions Part of collection is stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 2

Wilson-McAdoo Collection. Bernath Mss 18. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (1889-1967). Youngest daughter of Woodrow and Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 5 October 1889. Married to William Gibbs McAdoo, at the White House, 7 May 1914. Divorced 1934. Well known public speaker and radio commentator. Author of numerous short stories and two books, The Priceless Gift, a collection of her parents love letters, and The Woodrow Wilsons, a memoir. Longstanding interest in world peace movements; present at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco. Active in the United World Federalists movement. Died in Montecito, California, April 1967. Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915-1946). Daughter of Eleanor Randolph Wilson and William Gibbs McAdoo. Mary Faith McAdoo Bush (1920-1988). Daughter of Eleanor Randolph Wilson and William Gibbs McAdoo. Born in New York, 6 April 1920. Graduate of Girls Collegiate School of Claremont. Published several books, including a biography of her father. Died in Santa Barbara, California, November 1988. William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941). Born near Marietta, Georgia, 31 October 1863. Married Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 1914. Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson; U.S. Senator from California, 1933-1939. Resident of Santa Barbara, California. Died 1 February 1941. Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (1860-1914). Wilson's first wife, born in Savannah, Georgia, 15 May 1860. Married to [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, from 24 June 1885 to her death, at the White House, 6 August 1914. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (1887-1933). Second daughter of Woodrow and Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, born Gainesville, Georgia, 28 August 1887. Married at the White House, Washington, D.C., 25 November 1913, to Francis Bowes Sayre, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, diplomat, and sometime Assistant Secretary of State. Died 15 January 1933. Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886-1944). Eldest daughter of Woodrow and Ellen Louise Axson Wilson. Spent several years in India, late 1930s-early 1940s, as a follower of Sri Aurobindo. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). Born in Staunton, Virginia, 28 December 1856. Married Ellen Louise Axson, 1885. Inaugurated President of Princeton University, 1902. Elected Governor of New Jersey, 1910. 28th President of the United States, 1913-1921. Died 3 February 1924. Arrangement The collection is divided into fourteen series. Series I-IV contain personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson's third and youngest daughter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, her husband William Gibbs McAdoo, and their two children Ellen Wilson McAdoo and Mary Faith McAdoo. Series V-VIII contain personal papers and records of President Woodrow Wilson, his first wife Ellen Axson Wilson, and their first two children Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wilson. Series IX-X contain Wilson family clippings, photographs, and ephemera. Series XII contains the McAdoo family childrens collection. Series XIII contains Wilson family oversize materials. Series XIV contains audiovisual materials. Series I: Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (boxes 1-7, 18-20). The largest series in the collection, containing family, personal, and professional correspondence, as well as material relating to publications, radio broadcasts, and speeches by EWA. Also includes some financial records and personal ephemera. Series II: Ellen Wilson McAdoo (box 7). Contains a small amount of family, personal, and professional correspondence. Series III: Mary Faith McAdoo (box 7). Contains a small amount of family and personal correspondence. Series IV: William Gibbs McAdoo (box 8). Includes family, personal, and professional correspondence, as well as some financial and legal records. Series V: Ellen Axson Wilson (box 9). Contains family correspondence, including cablegrams to Woodrow Wilson (1904) and photostatic copies of other correspondence to Woodrow Wilson. Series VI: Jessie Woodrow Wilson (box 9). Contains correspondence to sister Margaret, ca. 1910-1930. Series VII: Margaret Woodrow Wilson (boxes 9-13). Includes correspondence to Woodrow Wilson and material relating to her stay Sri Aurobindo's ashram in India, from the late 1930s to early 1940s. Series VIII: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (boxes 14-15). Contains a small amount of outgoing personal, family, and professional correspondence, some as photostatic copies. Also includes a Wilsoniana section, with correspondence, unpublished and published material, about Wilson. Series IX: Wilson Family Ephemera (box 15). Includes early (1859-1929) Axson family correspondence, as well as correspondence among other family members. Series X: Wilson Family Clippings (box 16). Contains material relating to various family members, including Woodrow Wilson and Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 3

Series XI: Wilson Family Photographs (box 17). Contains photographs of various family members, including Woodrow Wilson, Ellen Axson Wilson, and Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. Series XII: McAdoo Family Childrens Collection (box 21). Includes correspondence among several family members. Series XIII: Oversize Wilson Family Ephemera (boxes 22-23). Includes photographs and a scrapbook. Series XIV: Audiovisual Materials. Includes sound recordings, in various formats. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson, 1889-1967 -- Archives. McAdoo, Ellen Wilson, 1915-1946. Bush, Mary Faith McAdoo, 1920-1988. McAdoo, William Gibbs, 1863-1941. Wilson, Ellen Axson. Sayre, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1887-1933. Wilson, Margaret Woodrow, 1886-1944. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. McAdoo family -- Archives. Wilson family -- Archives. Presidents -- Family. Related Materials Manuscript Sources: McAdoo, William Gibbs. William Gibbs McAdoo letters to his wife, Eleanor (Wilson) McAdoo, 1914-1938. University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 70/127c). William Gibbs McAdoo Papers. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Papers. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. Available on microfilm, 540 reels. Covers Wilson's personal life and public career. Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1913-1921. The National Archives, Washington, D.C. Includes presidential documents. Woodrow Wilson Papers. Princeton University Library, Princeton, N.J. Includes personal correspondence with many of Wilson's closest friends and associates. Published Sources: Axson, Stockton. Brother Woodrow: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson by Stockton Axson, ed. Arthur S. Link. Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Supplementary volume. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Memoir, covering Wilson's years as President of Princeton, by his brother-in-law and friend. Craig, Douglas B. After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. Includes chapter on William Gibbs McAdoo. Elliot, Margaret Randolph Axson. My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Recollections by the sister of Wilson's first wife. McAdoo, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, in collaboration with Margaret Y. Gaffey. The Woodrow Wilsons. New York: Macmillan Co., 1937. Memoir by Wilson's daughter. McAdoo, Eleanor Randolph Wilson. The Priceless Gift: The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson. New York: McGraw-Hill and Co., 1962. A selection, compiled by their daughter. McAdoo, William Gibbs. Crowded Years: The Reminiscences of William G. McAdoo. Boston: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Mulder, John M. Woodrow Wilson: A Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. Contains numerous further references to manuscript and published sources. Saunders, Frances Wright. Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady between Two Worlds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Wilson, Woodrow. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966-1994. Extensive multi-volume edition of public and personal papers. Series I: Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 4

Series I: Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Family Correspondence, Outgoing Box 1: 1 1899-1907 Box 1: 2 1908-1927 Box 1: 3 1942-1946 Box 1: 4 Undated Personal Correspondence, Incoming Box 1: 5-12 A-Z (arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent), ca. 1922-1964 Box 1: 13 Unidentified Professional Correspondence Box 2: 1 Outgoing, 1927-1950 Incoming (arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent, mostly dealing with writings and speeches), ca. 1914-1965 Box 2: 2-7 A-J Box 3: 1-5 K-S Box 4: 1-2 T-Z Box 4: 3 Unidentified Box 4: 4 Office of War Information, 1943-1944 Works Box 4: 5 Articles, and Reminiscences (includes "Statement" re Woodrow Wilson's last thoughts about League of Nations) Books Box 18 Julia and the White House (novel about a young girl growing up in the White House), TSS, 1946 The Priceless Gift Box 4: 6-7 Holographic and typescript partial drafts Box 19 TSS Box 20 Galley Proofs, 1962 The Woodrow Wilsons Box 4: 8-9 Typescript drafts of chapters, with holographic corrections Box 5: 1 Typescript drafts of chapters, with holographic corrections Other Writings Box 5: 2 [Julia] and other (partial typescript and holographic drafts) Box 5: 3 Short Stories (typescript drafts) Box 5: 4 Publicity Book (includes biographical sketch, with comments and radio scripts, and typed copies of letters and speeches concerning Woodrow Wilson), n.d. Radio Broadcasts Box 5: 5 April-July 1941 Box 5: 6-7 Unidentified, n.d. Box 5: 8 Radio Broadcasts and Speeches (unidentified holographic drafts), n.d. Box 5: 9 Speeches (holographic and typescript drafts), ca. early 1940s Records - Financial Box 6: 1 Incoming Correspondence, 1923-1951 Banking Records Box 6: 2 Los Angeles, 1947-1951 Box 6: 3 New York, 1950-1951 Box 6: 4-5 Receipts, 1926-1951 Personal Ephemera Box 7: 1 Address Books and Diary (re trip to Europe), n.d. Box 7: 2 Biographical Material (includes 1967 obituaries) Box 7: 3 Invitations and Distinctions Box 7: 4 Lecture Advertisement (includes biographical sketch; spoke on the topics of: "The Peacemakers-1918 and 1945," "Women as a Force for World Peace," "The San Francisco Charter," and "The Battle-Scarred Road to Peace") Box 7: 5 Notes Box 7: 6 Publications and Papers (by other writers) Box 7: 7 Typescript articles and papers (by other writers) Box 7: 8 Miscellaneous Writings (holographic copies, apparently by EWM) Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 5

Series I: Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Box 7: 9 Unidentified TSS and MSS (including list of achievements of League of Nations during its first 25 years) Box 7: 10 Wedding Gift Book, 1914 Series II: Ellen Wilson McAdoo Box 7: 11 Family Correspondence, Outgoing (to mother and Mary Faith McAdoo), 1928-1935 Box 7: 12 Personal Correspondence, Incoming, 1923-1933 Box 7: 13 Professional Correspondence, Incoming, 1915, 1932 Box 7: 14 Personal Ephemera, 1913, 1931 Series III: Mary Faith McAdoo Box 7: 15 Family Correspondence, Outgoing (to mother), 1933-1938 Box 7: 16 Personal Correspondence, Incoming, n.d. Series IV: William Gibbs McAdoo Family Correspondence Box 8: 1 Outgoing (to wife, EWM), 1929 Box 8: 2 Outgoing (to EWM), 1936 Box 8: 3 Incoming - Outgoing (financial matters re Ellen Wilson McAdoo), 1938 Box 8: 4 Personal Correspondence, Incoming (includes telegrams of condolences re Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924), 1922-1931 Professional Correspondence Box 8: 5 Outgoing (includes letters while Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee), 1912-1913 Box 8: 6-9 Incoming (arranged alphabetically by surname, mostly about statement to Senate committee, and intention to move to California), 1922-1923 Records Box 8: 10 Financial, 1920-1931 Box 8: 11-13 Legal, 1921-1922, 1942 Box 8: 13 Personal Ephemera (includes obituary), ca. 1916-1941 Series V: Ellen Axson Wilson Family Correspondence, Outgoing To Woodrow Wilson Box 9: 1-2 Photostats (apparently used by EWM for her book Priceless Gift; originals at Princeton University), ca. 1885-1904 Box 9: 3 Letters (while on trip to Italy), 1904 Box 9: 4 Telegrams (while on trip to Italy), 28 Mar-19 Aug. 1904 Box 9: 5 To Eleanor Wilson (daughter), 1911 Box 9: 6 Professional Correspondence, Incoming, 1914 Series VI: Jessie Woodrow Wilson Box 9: 7-8 Family Correspondence, Outgoing - to Margaret (sister), n.d., 1911-1930 Series VII: Margaret Woodrow Wilson Family Correspondence, Outgoing Box 9: 9 To father (Woodrow Wilson), ca. 1894-1923 Box 9: 10 To mother (Ellen Axson Wilson), ca. 1901-1909 Box 9: 11 To sister (Eleanor Wilson McAdoo), ca. 1936-1940 Box 9: 12 To others, n.d., ca. 1939-1942 Personal Correspondence Outgoing Box 10: 1 To Sri Aurobindo, ca. 1938 Box 10: 2-4 A-Z (arranged by name of correspondent, often forename, many written from or about India), ca. 1939-1942 Box 10: 5-6 Incoming, A-Z (arranged by name of correspondent, often forename), ca. 1916-1942 Professional Correspondence Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 6

Series VII: Margaret Woodrow Wilson Box 10: 7 Outgoing, n.d., 1936-1942 Box 10: 8-9 Incoming, n.d., ca. 1939-1942 Box 10: 10 Solicitations of Sri Aurobindo's books, 1940 Box 10: 11 Unidentified Correspondence, ca. 1938-1942 Works Box 11: 1-5 Gospel of Ramakrishna (TSS drafts) Box 11: 6 "The School House as a Community Center" (printed pamphlet), 1916 Box 11: 7 Speeches, n.d. Records Financial Box 12: 1 Correspondence, Outgoing, 1938-1942 Box 12: 2 Correspondence, Incoming, 1938, 1940 Box 12: 3 Banque de l'indochine, 1940-1943 Box 12: 4-5 Imperial Bank of Inda, 1941-1944 Box 12: 6 National Metropolitan Bank, 1938-1941 Box 12: 7 Miscellaneous Receipts Box 12: 8 Legal (Will of Willa Boord), ca. 1938-1940 Personal Ephemera Box 13: 1 Diary, 1939 Box 13: 2 Miscellaneous Correspondence by other writers Box 13: 3 Miscellaneous Notes Box 13: 4 Personal Memorabilia (includes address book, clippings, and envelopes) Box 13: 5 Publications and Papers by Sri Aurobindo (including partial corrected typescript draft of The Life Divine) Box 13: 6 Publications and Papers by other writers Box 13: 7 Notebook (in French) Box 13: 8 Portrait of Sri Aurobindo (b/w framed photo) Box 13: 9 Recital Scrapbook, 1917 Series VIII: Thomas Woodrow Wilson Family Correspondence, Outgoing Box 14: 1 To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo - 2 TLS, 1919, 1923 To Ellen Axson Wilson (photostats; apparently used by EWM for her book Priceless Gift; originals at Princeton University) Box 14: 2 ca. 1884-1896 Box 14: 3 1913 Box 14: 4 Personal Correspondence, Outgoing Additional Note 1 ALS to Lucy Marshall Smith, 15 Sept. 1897 and 1 TLS to Arthur Brisbane, re the Espionage Bill before Congress, 25 April 1917. Box 14: 5 Professional Correspondence, Outgoing Additional Note 1 ALS to Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, 14 Feb. 1901 and 1 TLS to General John J. Pershing, introducing Wilson's brother-in-law, Dr. Stockton Axson, 13 Sept. 1918 Box 14: 6 Works - Baccalaureate Address, 13 June 1909 Box 14: 7 Personal Ephemera (includes Woodrow Wilson autograph and 1920 Democratic National Convention ticket) Wilsoniana (material relating to Woodrow Wilson) Box 14: 8 Inaugural Day (program and invitation, addressed to EWM), 5 Mar. 1917 Box 14: 9 Memorials (for Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson) Box 14: 10 Miscellaneous Correspondence - Incoming, 1919-1966 Box 14: 11-12 Miscellaneous Published Material (mostly articles about Woodrow Wilson) Box 15: 1 Miscellaneous Unpublished Material (includes dedications, essays, and songs) Box 15: 2 Woodrow Wilson Foundation (includes minutes and reports), ca. 1944-1965 Series IX: Wilson Family Ephemera Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 7

Series IX: Wilson Family Ephemera Box 15: 3 Axson Family Correspondence, 1859-1929 Box 15: 4 Axson, J. S. K., Jr. - Notebook, ca. 1884 Box 15: 5 Bones [?], Helen - To Margaret Wilson, 1914, 1927 Box 15: 6 Hoyt Family Correspondence, n.d., 1859 Box 15: 7 McAdoo, Molly - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, ca. 1935-1937 Box 15: 8 McAdoo, Robert H. - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1918, 1923 Box 15: 9 Sayre, Francis B. - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 1966 Box 15: 10 Woodrow, James - To Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, ca. 1963 Box 15: 11-12 Wilson Family - Miscellaneous Correspondence, ca. 1900-1946 Box 15: 13 Miscellaneous Ephemera (primarily cards and envelopes), ca. 1893-1950 Series X: Wilson Family Clippings Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Box 16: 1 Wedding Scrapbook, 1914 Box 16: 2 Biographical Articles, ca. 1914-1956 Box 16: 3 Reviews of The Woodrow Wilsons, 1937 Box 16: 4 Reviews of The Priceless Gift, 1962, 1967 Box 16: 5 William G. McAdoo - Biographical Articles (includes death notices), ca. 1917-1941 Box 16: 6 Margaret W. Wilson - Biographical Articles (includes death notice), ca. 1917-1944 Box 16: 7 Thomas Woodrow Wilson - Biographical Articles (includes death notices), ca. 1913-1964 Box 16: 8 Miscellaneous Family Clippings, ca. 1915-1963 Box 16: 9 Miscellaneous Historical Clippings, ca. 1915-1953 Series XI: Wilson Family Photographs Box 17: 1 Box 17: 2 Box 17: 3 Box 17: 4 Box 17: 5 Box 17: 6 Box 17: 7 Box 17: 8 Box 17: 9 Eleanor Wilson McAdoo William G. McAdoo Ellen and Mary Faith McAdoo Ellen Axson Wilson (11 items) Jessie and Margaret Woodrow Wilson Margaret Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson (25 items) Wilson Homes and Monuments Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photographs Series XII: McAdoo Family Childrens Collection Box 21: 1-2 Correspondence (includes Ellen McAdoo, Eleanor McAdoo, Mary Faith McAdoo, William G. McAdoo, and Sally McAdoo as correspondents), ca. 1925-1936 Series XIII: Oversize Wilson Family Ephemera Box 22 Box 23 Scrapbook with articles about Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924; other newspaper articles, ca. 1917-1956 Photographs (black and white, mostly of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo) Series XIV: Audiovisual Materials A/V No. A0312/D12 A/V No. A0313/D16 A/V No. A0314/D12 78 rpm sound recording - Star Spangled Banner, sung by Margaret Woodrow Wilson (A Panama Pacific International Exposition Souvenir Record), 1915 Acetate sound recording - Democratic National Committee, Interview with Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 11 Oct. 1948 LP sound recording - Adlai Stevenson in Conversation with Arnold Michaelis, 19 June 1956 Wilson-McAdoo Collection Bernath Mss 18 8