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The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 3, Sub-Series 3: Civilian Public Service Correspondence, 1930s-1947

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Stafford, William, 1914-1993
Title: The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 3, Sub-Series 3: Civilian Public Service Correspondence
Dates: 1930s-1947 (inclusive)
19301947
Quantity: 1 cubic foot, (3 boxes)
Collection Number: OLPb121STA
Summary: William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. This subseries of the collection includes surviving correspondence relating to Stafford's time as a conscientious objector in the CPS system during World War II. The Index to the entire Stafford Archives can be found at: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv83782
Repository: Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions: Permission from the Head of Special Collections is required to view this collection.
Languages: English

Biographical Note

William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many credentials, Stafford served as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award for his poetry collection Traveling through the Dark (1963). During his lifetime, Stafford wrote over sixty books of poetry that still resonate with both scholars and general readers. Stafford’s perspectives on peace, the environment, and education serve as some of the most articulate and engaging dialogues by a modern American writer about three of the most important issues of the second half of the twentieth century with lasting impacts on future generations. Howard Zinn, one America’s most iconic modern historians, was keenly aware of Stafford’s insight into modern American culture. Zinn claimed, “William Stafford’s prose and poetry, wise and eloquent, speak directly to the violence of our time, and to our hope for a different world” (from cover of Every War Has Two Losers).

The William Stafford Archives, donated to Lewis & Clark College by the Stafford family in 2008, contain the private papers, publications, photographs, recordings, and teaching materials of the poet William Stafford. The Lewis & Clark College Special Collections actively add to this collection by acquiring unique Stafford related materials.

Stafford wrote every day of his life from 1950 to 1993. These 20,000 pages of daily writings form a complete record of the poet’s mostly early morning meditations, including poem drafts, dream records, aphorisms, and other visits to the unconscious, recorded on separate sheets of yellow or white paper or when traveling, often in spiral-bound reporters’ steno pads. The archive also includes typescripts of poems submitted for publication and for use in readings. Stafford listed where he submitted each poem, and whether it was accepted for publication on the typescript. Each of his published collections, large and small, is represented by its gathering of documentary copies (typescripts), called by Stafford a “put-together.” Unpublished poems, poems published in journals, and reading copies of published poems were also gathered, in a virtually complete record from 1937 to 1993, totaling about 7,000 items. The collection also includes copies of all known Stafford books and translations. Stafford saved correspondence received, with an indication of the date of reply, and sometimes a copy of the reply, from the early 1960s to August 1993. Estimated at 100,000 sheets, the collected correspondence contains some full exchanges of correspondence initiated by WS. One such exchange is the correspondence with Marvin Bell on their sequence Segues. In addition to many photographs of and relating to William Stafford, the archive includes an estimated 20,000 photographs and negatives taken and developed by Stafford of fellow poets, family, friends, and Lewis & Clark College faculty. The archive provides documentation of Stafford's teaching career, including more than one thousand index cards, some dating from research at Iowa, others from later. These were much used in preparing for classes, workshops, and lectures. The files also contain scattered notes for workshops and lectures. The archive also includes course syllabi, and faculty documents relating to Stafford's teaching years at Lewis & Clark College.

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Content Description

A mix of originals and photocopies of incoming and outgoing letters.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish, exhibit, broadcast, or quote from materials in the Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections requires written permission of the Head of Archives & Special Collections.

Preferred Citation

The William Stafford Archives, Lewis & Clark College Aubrey Watzek Library Archives & Special Collections, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in topical and date order.

Location of Collection

Special Collections

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947

Container: Box 1
- Description: Correspondence with William Everson and Illiterati
  Photocopies from Bancroft Library. 23 items. Photocopies from UC Los Angeles Clark Library. 2 items.
  
  Correspondence includes: WS with Kemper Nomland, Kermit Sheets, Tom Polk Miller; Kermit Sheets with Morris Keaton (copies to Ken Morgan, Bill Everson, Mark Schrock, Bill Stafford, Jay Barris, and Harry Prochaska), Vladimir Dupre with Charlie Davis, Adrian Wilson with Kemper Nomland and William Eshelman, and a Bill Eshelman poem.
  
  Dates: 1943-1947
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.1
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- Description: Publication files for Illiterati
  
  This file is a photocopy to the official publication file of the Illiterati magazine as compiled and maintained by Kermit Sheets. Includes seven typed pages of poems by William Stafford, evidently submitted to Illiterati in or soon after late May 1945, and if so, from Elgin, Illinois. The poems are “Speech from the Big Play” (11/44), “Then” (1/22/44), “We called it the chaparral . . .” (3/43), “Listen, you whistles and gongs . . .” (3/2/45), “Just at sundown, this is the heart . . .” (9/43), “Breath” (11/42), “Stranger in Town” (6/8/42), “One step after another . . .” (4/43), “Friend Sky” (4/8/42), “Event” (3/42), “Current Interest” (c. 1940), “Report from the Provinces” (2/2/45), “Discovery” (8/42), “If any ask, say yes . . .” (5/24/44), “Tired that day we were” (5/15/45), “Buzzards over Arkansas” (3/42), “Explorers” (11/9/43), “Happy Journey!” (5/31/44), “Communication” (4/42). None of these poems was accepted for Illiterati. Two of the poems had already been published: “Event” in the University of Kansas journal Feoh (Spring 1942), and “Breath” in motive (May 1944). Three of the poems (“We called it the chaparral . . . ,” “Breath,” and “Buzzards over Arkansas”) were later included in Down in My Heart (thesis 1946, Brethren Press publication 1947), “Then” appeared in Ladies Home Journal in 1951, and “Tired that day we were . . .” in Ladies Home Journal (1958) and the collection Weather (Perishable Press, 1969). Also includes five typed poems, three by William Stafford (CO’s Work on Mountain Road,” “Face,” and “Search”) written on 12/23/42, 12/27/42, and 2/18/43 respectively) and two by Tom Polk Miller (“Last Words” and “Stranger in This Town”). All five were typed by William Stafford and submitted by him to Kermit Sheets for Illiterati at Wyeth camp on May 24, 1943. Two of the Stafford poems (CO’s Work on Mountain Road” and “Search”) and Miller’s poem “Last Words” were printed in Illiterati 2 (Wyeth, Summer 1943)’ Stafford’s poem “Face” and Miller’s poem “Stranger in This Town” both appeared in Illiterati 3 (Waldport, Summer 1944).
  
  Dates: 1942-1947
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.2
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- Description: Correspondence with Illiterati
  
  Copies of items in 5.1 and 5.2 along with copies of Staffords personal documentary copies of the poems submitted to Illiterati.
  
  Dates: 1942-1947
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.3
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- Description: Poems related to CPS
  
  Photocopies of poems by fellow CPS campers William Eshelman, Jim Harmon, Ercell Lynn (five poems), Tom Polk Miller, Bill Read (eight poems, with a comment on a “Rondel” by Bill Read, probably the Charles d’Orleans translation, printed in the San Dimas Rattler), and Chuck Worley (“George” from Down in My Heart), probably the poem mentioned in the William Stafford letters of September 8 and October 18, 1942 [5.1]
  
  Dates: 1942-1947
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.4
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.5
  - Description: WS at University of Kansas to his parents
    
    Dates: October 22, late 1930s
    
    Container: Item 1.5.1
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at UK to parents
    
    Dates: winter, late 1930s
    
    Container: Item 1.5.2
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS poem, “Slow Vengeance,”
    
    Dates: c. 1940?
    
    Container: Item 1.5.3
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS poem, “Mary,”
    
    Dates: c. 1940?
    
    Container: Item 1.5.4
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS poem, “Why,”
    
    Dates: c. 1940?
    
    Container: Item 1.5.5
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS from El Dorado to (aunt) Madge
    
    Dates: 3/21/40
    
    Container: Item 1.5.6
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS from El Dorado to (aunt) Madge
    
    Dates: 9/10/41
    
    Container: Item 1.5.7
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: K. Allen in San Francisco to WS in Magnolia (Empty envelope)
    
    Dates: 2/24/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.8
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: (Brother) Bob Stafford to parents, from Florida
    
    Dates: c. June 1942
    
    Container: Item 1.5.9
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: (Brother) Bob Stafford to parents, from Florida
    
    Dates: c. June 1942
    
    Container: Item 1.5.10
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: (Father) Earl Ingersoll Stafford to WS from Kansas
    
    Dates: 6/18/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.11
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS to Madge soon after arriving at Los Prietos camp
    
    Dates: c. 6/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.12
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: (Mother) Ruby to WS from Kansas after Bob’s wedding
    
    Dates: c. 8/31/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.13
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS to Bob and new wife Margaret in San Antonio from Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 9/3/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.14
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby and Earl from El Dorado to WS in Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 10/16/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.15
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Earl from Kansas to WS after Bob’s call-up
    
    Dates: late October 1942
    
    Container: Item 1.5.16
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Earl to family from the road
    
    Dates: late 1942?
    
    Container: Item 1.5.17
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby to her mother-in-law Stafford
    
    Dates: late 1942?
    
    Container: Item 1.5.18
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Earl from Kansas to WS
    
    Dates: 12/10/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.19
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby from Kansas to WS
    
    Dates: c. 12/15/42
    
    Container: Item 1.5.20
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Bob from Shreveport to family
    
    Dates: late 1942
    
    Container: Item 1.5.21
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Envelopes, Earl to WS at Los Prietos with short note
    
    Dates: 2/5/43 and 2/8/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.22
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Envelope, Harry Faulconer (at Los Prietos?) to WS at Manchester College, Indiana, forwarded to Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 6/16/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.23
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: C. Ernest Davis from Brethren Central Office, Elgin, Illinois, to camp director Rev. D. C. Gnagy at Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 6/16/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.24
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Envelope from Los Prietos to WS at Manchester College
    
    Dates: 6/17/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.25
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Letter from Harry Maiden at Los Prietos to WS and others, “Learned Gentlemen of Los Prietos,” at Manchester College
    
    Dates: 6/18/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.26
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Letter from Dorothy at 616 N. Pacific, Glendale, CA to WS at Los Prietos (one sheet), together with a copy of a poem by Robert Tristram Coffin.
    
    Dates: 8/23/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.27
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Postcard, Dorothy to WS
    
    Dates: 8/23/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.28
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Letter from Edgar H. Graber, briefly at Elgin, to WS at Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 9/1/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.29
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Letter from WS as camp librarian at Los Prietos to editors of Illiterati at Wyeth camp, Cascade Locks
    
    Dates: 9/8/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.30
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Los Prietos to family in Kansas (one page, apparently incomplete)
    
    Dates: 9/19/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.31
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Los Prietos to Bob in Tuscaloosa with envelope franked the following day. One page, enclosing an account of fire-fighting (“The Santa Ynez Fire”) later worked up for a chapter in Down in My Heart.
    
    Dates: 9/23/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.32
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS from Los Prietos to Illiterati
    
    Dates: 10/4/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.33
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Kermit Sheets at Government Camp, Oregon to Morris Keaton in Elgin concerning a Fine Arts Camp. Copies sent to (among others) William Everson at Waldport, Mark Schrock at Wyeth, WS at Los Prietos, and Harry Prochaska at Larch Mountain, the Wyeth side camp
    
    Dates: 10/5/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.34
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at Los Prietos to Kermit Sheets and Illiterati at Wyeth (Cascade Locks) enclosing “Tragedy” and “Today” (both rejected) and the prose piece “So Long, Chimes” printed in Illiterati 3 (Summer 1944 at Waldport).
    
    Dates: 10/8/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.35
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: One-page WS memoir, “An Evening on Earth,” written at Los Prietos
    
    Dates: 10/17/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.36
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at Los Prietos to Kermit Sheets at Wyeth
    
    Dates: 10/18/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.37
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: note in the handwriting of Kermit Sheets, seeking agents for Illiterati at Los Prietos (WS) and twelve other camps
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Item 1.5.38
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Postcard from WS to Illiterati agreeing to be agent for the journal, and discussing retitling of his poem “Our Men” as “Easy” (published under that title in Illiterati 3).
    
    Dates: 11/1/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.39
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby to WS after his and Dorothy’s engagement. enclosing aunt Klara Swarthout’s letter to her from Los Angeles.
    
    Dates: 12/3/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.40
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Dorothy in Glendale to Ruby
    
    Dates: 12/5/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.41
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: (Sister) Peg to WS
    
    Dates: 12/6/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.42
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby to WS
    
    Dates: 12/7/43
    
    Container: Item 1.5.43
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS to Dorothy
    
    Dates: 1/11/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.44
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby to Dorothy
    
    Dates: 1/15/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.45
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Ruby to WS
    
    Dates: 2/28/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.46
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Two envelopes, from “Barnard” at Belden, and unsigned from Los Prietos, to [Paul?] Mallett, Stafford, and [Dan] Force at Fredonyer Spike Camp, where WS wrote poems in May and June of 1944
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Item 1.5.47
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at Los Prietos to Harry Faulconer at Belden
    
    Dates: 6/30/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.48
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at Belden to Untide Press at Waldport
    
    Dates: 8/1/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.49
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS at Belden to Peg and family in Kansas
    
    Dates: 9/13/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.50
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS to Bob
    
    Dates: c. 9/20/44
    
    Container: Item 1.5.51
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Elgin to family in Kansas
    
    Dates: 5/11/45
    
    Container: Item 1.5.52
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Elgin to William Everson at Waldport
    
    Dates: 8/31/45
    
    Container: Item 1.5.53
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Elgin to Kermit Sheets at Waldport
    
    Dates: 10/17/45
    
    Container: Item 1.5.54
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Elgin to Bill [Everson] at Waldport
    
    Dates: 11/6/45
    
    Container: Item 1.5.55
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: Bill Read in Nantucket to WS at Chaffey High School, Ontario, CA
    
    Dates: 8/22/46
    
    Container: Item 1.5.56
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Claremont, California to Tom [Polk Miller] in ?Pasadena
    
    Dates: 7/28/47
    
    Container: Item 1.5.57
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS in Claremont to Kemper [Nomland] in Pasadena
    
    Dates: 8/25/47
    
    Container: Item 1.5.58
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
  - Description: WS poem, “Faith,” written and sent to Illiterati in Pasadena, but not accepted
    
    Dates: 10/10/47
    
    Container: Item 1.5.59
    
    Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947 / General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947
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- Description: “Trial: The World Versus Everybody” and “War Trial: 1950”
  Three drafts of the same mock trial notes
  
  Three drafts of the same mock trial notes written in Elgin, IL.
  
  Dates: 1950
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.6
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- Description: Stafford's Marriage certificate and announcement
  photocopies
  
  Dates: April 8, 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.7
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
- Description: General correspondence relating to pacifism
  2 photocopied letters
  
  Dates: 1966-1979
  
  Container: Box/Folder 1.8
  
  Location: Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947
CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943

Container: Box 2
- Description: Mom [Ruby Stafford] to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: Winter 1942
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.1
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Bob Stafford [WS's brother] to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: Jun./Jul. 1942
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.2
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Earl Stafford (The El Dorado Refining Company) to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 10 Dec. 1942
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.3
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Unsigned [D.C. Gnagy] (Church of the Brethren) to WS
  Copy of TL to D.C. Gnagy, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 16 Jun. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.4
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Earl Stafford to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 18 Jun. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.5
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Harry Maiden (Church of the Brethren) to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 18 Jun. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.6
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 30 Aug. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.7
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 23 Aug. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.8
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; handwritten note, 1 sheet; typed poem, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 23 Aug. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.9
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Edgar H. Grater (Church of the Brethren) to WS
  TLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 1 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.10
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  Telegram, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 2 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.11
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; handwritten note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 3 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.12
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 11 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.13
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Penelope Smythe (Ladies' Seminary) to WS
  TLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 18 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.14
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 20 Sep. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.15
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 2 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.16
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 11 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.17
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 13 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.18
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 19 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.19
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 21 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.20
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  Handwritten notes on leaves, 2 sheets; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 27 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.21
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 31 Oct. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.22
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 6 Nov. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.23
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 5 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 23 Nov. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.24
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 25 Nov. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.25
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; handwritten note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 1 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.26
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Illegible [Klara?] to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 3 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.27
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; typed note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 6 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.28
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Peg to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 6 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.29
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to Ruby Stafford
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 6 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.30
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: R.S. [Robert Stafford] to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 7 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.31
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 14 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.32
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Mom [Ruby Stafford] to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.33
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 22 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.34
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Bill Reed to DS
  Handwritten note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 29 Dec. 1943
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.35
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
- Description: Poem from Retort
  Clipping of WS poem; 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: Undated
  
  Container: Box/Folder 2.36
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943
CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946

Container: Box 2
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; newsclipping, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 3 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.1
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  Empty envelope, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 3 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.2
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  Handwritten note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 6 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.3
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: WS to DS
  HLS, 1 sheet; newsclipping, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 12 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.4
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Ruby Stafford to DS; WS to DS
  HLS, 1 sheet; handwritten note on envelope, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 15 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.5
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; typed note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 18 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.6
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 23 Jan. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.7
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Earl Stafford to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 5 Feb. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.8
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Earl Stafford to WS
  Newsclipping, 1 sheet; HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 8 Feb. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.9
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Mom [Ruby Stafford] to WS
  HLS, 5 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 28 Feb. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.10
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photograph, 1 sheet; 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 1 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.11
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; invitation, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 15 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.12
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 21 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.13
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 29 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.14
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 30 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.15
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  Handwritten card, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 31 Mar. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.16
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; typed note, 1 sheet; handwritten note, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 18 Apr. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.17
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; personalized napkin, 1 sheet, photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 20 Apr. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.18
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Unsigned
  Church program, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: Apr. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.19
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: April/May 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.20
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Unsigned to WS
  Envelope, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.21
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 6 sheets; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 2 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.22
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photograph, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 9 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.23
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 15 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.24
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 19 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.25
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 1 sheet
  
  Dates: 27 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.26
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 31 May. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.27
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 9 Jun. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.28
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; handwritten note, 1 sheet; photograph, 1 sheet; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 12 Jun. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.29
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 14 Jun. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.3
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 5 sheets; miniature booklet, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 20 Jun. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.31
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 8 Sep. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.32
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 11 Sep. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.33
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 16 Sep. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.34
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 25 Sep. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.35
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 2 Oct. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.36
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; magazine clipping, 1 sheet; photocopy, 4 sheets
  
  Dates: 11 Oct. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.37
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; program, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 26 Jun. 1944
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.38
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 3 sheets
  
  Dates: 2 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.39
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 9 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.40
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 3 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 16 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.41
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 1 sheet; handwritten card, 1 sheet; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 18 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.42
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 2 sheets
  
  Dates: 24 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.43
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: DS to WS
  HLS, 5 sheets; photocopy, 7 sheets
  
  Dates: 29 Jan. 1945
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.44
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946
- Description: Bill Reed to WS
  HLS, 2 sheets; photocopy, 5 sheets
  
  Dates: 22 Aug. 1946
  
  Container: Box/Folder 3.45
  
  Location: CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Pacifism--Poetry.
Pacifism--United States.
Poetry -- Authorship.
Poetry -- Study and teaching.
Poetry--20th century.
Poets, American--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States.

Personal Names

Stafford, Dorothy
Stafford, William, 1914-1993--Archives

Corporate Names

Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.)

Geographical Names

Kansas.
Oregon.

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Stafford, Kim (creator)

The William E. Stafford Archives, Series 3, Sub-Series 3: Civilian Public Service Correspondence, 1930s-1947

Table of Contents

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Preferred Citation

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Location of Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

Collected CPS-era Letters, 1930-1947

General Wartime Correspondence, 1930s-1947

CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1942-1943

CPS-era Letters Collected by Dorothy Stafford, 1944-1946

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Personal Names

Corporate Names

Geographical Names

Other Creators

Personal Names