Cage 144
Clifford Merrill Drury
Papers, 1932-1958

Number of Containers: 3
Linear Feet of shelf space: 1.5
Approximate number of items: 150

The papers of C.M. Drury, historian and biographer, were acquired by Washington State University Library between 1938 and 1972 as a complement to the research material, manuscripts, transcripts, photocopies and other papers concerning the Oregon Missionaries that were received by the library as a result of Dr. Drury's efforts.

1897	Born, near Early, Iowa
1918	Graduated, Buena Vista College
1918	U.S. Army at the Medical School of Yale University
1919-1922	Attended and graduated. San Francisco Theological Seminary.
1921-1923	Assistant pastor, First Church, Berkeley, California
1922	Ordained, Presbyterian Minister
1923-1927	Pastor, Community Church, Shanghai, China
1927-1928	Attended University of Edinburgh
1928-1938	Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Moscow, Idaho
1932	Ph.D., University of Edinburgh
1938-1963	Professor of Church History, San Francisco Theological Seminary
1944-1956	Official Historian, U.S. Navy, Chaplain Corps
1955	Litt.D., Whitworth College
1964	Lecturer, Fuller Theological Seminary
1964-1969	D.H.L., Whitman College

	Major Publications
1936	Henry Harmon Spalding, Pioneer of Old Oregon
1937	Marcus Whitman, M.D., Pioneer and Martyr
1940	Elkanah and Mary Walker, Pioneers among the Spokanes
1948-1954	History of the Chaplain Corps, U.S. Navy. 6 v.
1949	A Tepee in his front yard
1952	Presbyterian Panorama
1958	Diaries and letters of  Henry Harmon Spalding and Asa Bowen Smith
1963-1966	First White Woman over the Rockies. 3 v.
1967	William Anderson Scott, No Ordinary Man
1968	Rudolph James Wig
1973	Marcus Whitman Re-examined. 2 v.

Although the greatest bulk of the Clifford Merrill Drury papers were deposited at the Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Spokane, in 1966, some additional material on Drury and his research may be found in the Eells, Spalding, Walker and Whitman collections which Dr. Drury was instrumental in acquiring for the Washington State University Library.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

This collection of the papers of Clifford M. Drury, historian and biographer, falls in three categories: correspondence, manuscripts of published works, and minor publications. The correspondence, arranged chronologically, is from that period, 1932-1947, when Drury was actively researching and writing his biographical trilogy on the Whitmans, Walkers and Spaldings. The letters detail aspects of his search for material, his transfer of much of that material to the Washington State University Library, and the publication of his monumental biographies. While the bulk of these letters are from Dr. Drury's own files, some are strays from the files of WSU president E.O. Holland who actively supported Drury's research. In addition to the correspondence there is a typescript of Drury's address at a convocation at WSU in 1937 and a file of clippings, notes, photographs and other papers collected as research material.

Four of Drury's major works are represented here in typescript as received from the printer. These include those sections deleted from the published works in the interest of conserving space. In addition to reprints of a few of Drury's articles there is a copy of Helen Bliss' "Bibliography of the works of Clifford Merrill Drury, 1934-1969."

CONTAINER LIST

CONTAINERS	FOLDERS	DESCRIPTIONS
1	1-4	Correspondence
	5-6	Addresses and notes
	7-9	Manuscripts
2	10-13	Manuscripts
3	14-16	Manuscripts
	17-18	Publications
4	19-25	Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

Inventory
FOLDER	DESCRIPTION
1	Correspondence, 1932-1934. 13 items. Correspondents: Board of Foreign Missions, David Brown, W.O. Forbes, Ernest E. Hubert, L.V. McWhorter, Edmond S. Meany, Samuel T. Walker, Western Reserve Academy.
2	Correspondence, 1935. 41 items. Correspondents: J.M. Cornelison, Robert S. Fletcher, W.W. Foote, Mary C. Harrison, E.O. Holland, R. Murray Jones, Kathleen Marsh, O.F. Marshal, Eula Green Miller, Richard G. Montgomery, Moscow (Idaho) Chamber of Commerce, Vivian Purves, C. Ben Ross, Spalding Memorial Library, Samuel T. Walker.
3	Correspondence, 1936. 34 items. Correspondents: Burt Brown Barker, William Douglas, Joe Evans, Charles A. Hawley, E.O. Holland, Ernest E. Hubert, Nard Jones, Richard G. Montgomery, National Archives, Mrs. Alfred W. Peterson, Leroi C. Snow, Albert R. Sweetser, John P. Thomson, Samuel T. Walker, Mrs. George W. Welker.
4	Correspondence, 1937-1947. 26 items.  Correspondents: C.R. Armstrong, Ruth Karr Mckee, C.R. Miller, Mary Eleanor Nichols, G. Donald Smith, U.S. Treasury, Elda R. Walker, Samuel T. Walker.
5	"The Walkers," an address by C.M. Drury delivered at convocation at the State College of Washington, May 18, 1937. 4 p. typescript.
6	Clippings, notes, photographs re: The Walkers, Pierre Dorian, Shoshone Indians, Rev. John Roberts. Also container list (1960). ca. 1934,1960. 20 items.
7-9	Marcus Whitman, M.D., Pioneer, patriot and martyr of Old Oregon. (Published by Caxton, 1937) Approx. 600 l . typescript (printer's copy)
10-11	Elkanah and Mary Walker, pioneers among the Spokanes. (Published by Caxton, 1940) Approx. 400 l. typescript. Approx.50 photographs (printer's copy)
12	Elkanah and Mary Walker, pioneers of the Spokanes. Approx. 250 l. typescript. (author's copy)
13	A tepee in his front yard or a biography of Henry T. Cowley. (Published by Binfords & Mort, 1949) Approx. 190 l. typescript. (printer's copy)
14	Henry T. Cowley, pioneer of Spokane. Approx. 160 l. typescript (carbon) (Cowley Family Copy)
15-16	The Spalding and Smith diaries of the Nez Perce Mission, 1838-1842. (Published by A.H. Clarke, 1958) Approx. 390 l. typescript (carbon) (author's copy)
17	Bliss, Helen - Bibliography of the works of Clifford Merrill Drury, 1934-1969. Reprinted from the Journal of Presyterian History, v. 48, n.2 (Summer, 1970) 143-157
18	Publications of C.M. Drury: The Beginnings of Talmaks, "Galloping over the butte," the introduction of the Fourth of July address of Talmaks Camp Meeting 1958. Craigmont, Idaho, Printed by Rev. David H. Crawford, 1958. 8 p.
	Beginnings in the Synod of Oregon. Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, v. 37, n. 4 (December, 1959) 208-231.
	I, the Lawyer; head chief of the Nez Perce. The Westerners, New York Posse, Brand Book, v.7, n. 1 (1960) 1-3, 14-21. illus.
	Negative report on Oregon: W.H. Ashley, W.P. Hunt, and J.S. Green. The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, Brand Book, no. 13, (1969) 192-202.
	Reminiscences of a historian. (Spokane?, 1972) First appeared in Pacific Northwesterners, v.16, n.4 (Fall, 1972) 16 p.
19	The search for the White Man's book of heaven, being a paper read at the meeting of the Presbytery of Northern Idaho at Kamiah, October 10, 1932. 3 p. typescript.
20	Comments on methods followed by me in the preparation of...Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, December 13, 1972. 2 typescript.
21	Correspondence and critical notes of Albert W. Thompson and Herman J. Deutsch, Pullman, Washington, 1970-1972, re: manuscript of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Approx. 150 p. typescript.
22-25	Manuscript of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Approx. 1000 p. typescript.

Additions:	18 March 1974
	Publications of C.M. Drury:
18	Growing up on an Iowa farm. Annals of Iowa, 3rd series, 42:3 (Winter 1974) 161-197.

Container	Folder	Description
5	1-6	Nine years with the Spokane Indians; the diary, 1838-1848, of Elkanah Walker, 1976. approx. 800 p. typescript with mss. corrections and changes.
	7	Nine years: Comments by A.W. Thompson. Approx. 50 p. typescript.
	8	Nine years: Comments by H.J. Deutsch. Approx 4 p. ms.
	9	Nine years: Correspondence with Larry Parker and others concerning translation of Walker's Spokan primer; also Parker's translation. 1974. Approx. 100 p. typescript and ms. (photocopies)