Frederick Lewis Allen papers, 1890-1954 (bulk 1933-1954).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 10,500 items; 30 containers; 12 linear feetSubject(s): - Allen, Hildegarde -- Correspondence
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 -- Correspondence
- Dean, Vera Micheles, 1903-1972 -- Correspondence
- De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955 -- Correspondence
- Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978 -- Correspondence
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 -- Correspondence
- McKinney, Laurence -- Correspondence
- Perkins, Milo, 1900- -- Correspondence
- Pfeiffer, George -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Wallace, DeWitt, 1889-1981 -- Correspondence
- Zuill, W. S. (William S.) -- Correspondence
- Foreign Policy Association
- Harvard University
- Harper's magazine
- American periodicals
- Industries -- United States
- Journalism
- London (England) -- Description and travel
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel
- United States -- History
- United States -- Social conditions
- Authors
- Editors
Open to research.
Correspondence, articles, biographies, date books, diaries, radio scripts, histories, speeches, and other papers documenting Allen's career as editor of Harper's Magazine, director of the Foreign Policy Association, author of many popular works on American social history, and an overseer of Harvard University. Includes a correspondence file on Allen's 1947 speech (1947) on journalists' attitude toward American industry; diaries kept on trips to London (1943) and to San Francisco (1945); and literary files containing manuscripts of his writings together with notes, outlines, original and revised drafts. Also includes correspondence relating to particular writings and preliminary notes for an unpublished biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Family correspondents include Allen's sister, Hildegarde Allen. Other correspondents include James Bryant Conant, Vera Micheles Dean, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Gilbert Highet, Walter Lippmann, Laurence McKinney, Milo Perkins, George Pfeiffer, DeWitt Wallace, and W.S. Zuill.
Editor and author.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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