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    <title>Frederick Lewis Allen papers, 1890-1954 (bulk 1933-1954)</title>
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    <namePart>Allen, Frederick Lewis</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1890-1954</namePart>
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    <extent>10,500</extent>
    <extent>30</extent>
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  <abstract>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  Also includes correspondence relating to particular writings and preliminary notes for an unpublished biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt.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.</abstract>
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  <note>Editor and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Allen, Hildegarde</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Conant, James Bryant</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1978</namePart>
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      <namePart>Dean, Vera Micheles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1972</namePart>
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      <namePart>De Voto, Bernard Augustine</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1955</namePart>
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      <namePart>Highet, Gilbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1978</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lippmann, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1974</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>McKinney, Laurence</namePart>
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      <namePart>Perkins, Milo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Pfeiffer, George</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wallace, DeWitt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1981</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Zuill, W. S. (William S.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Foreign Policy Association.</namePart>
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      <title>Harper's magazine</title>
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    <topic>American periodicals</topic>
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    <topic>Industries</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Journalism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>London (England)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>San Francisco (Calif.)</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Social conditions</topic>
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