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Series IV. Prose and Press About, 1920-1959
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Scope and Content Notes: This series consists of prose or press written about Hervey Allen and his work. It includes autobiographical and biographical notes, drafts, published material written by other authors, press coverage, newspaper clippings, obituaries and posthumous dedications about Hervey Allen and/or his work.
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Subseries 1. Autobiographical and Biographical Prose, 1933-1959
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Scope and Content Notes: This subseries details autobiographical and biographical material about Hervey Allen and/or his literary work. Included are press release statements from Farrar & Rinehart introducing Allen to the media; short essays written by other authors on Allen's work; manuscripts of term and theses projects on Allen and his work; and an unpublished manuscript entitled, "The Selected Poems of Hervey Allen" by Lawrence Lee. The manuscript names a foreword written by poet Robert Frost, however such foreword is not present in the manuscript.
Also included in this material are some notes about the Allen family history.
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Box 40
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Anthony Adverse and Mr. Allen, by William F. Allison in
The Pittsburgh Record, November 1933
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Biographical Notes, Loose Leaf
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Biographical Notes, in
The Pennsylvania Guardsman, August 1934
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Cow-boy (Hervey) Allen of Charleston, in
The Literary Digest, August 1934
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Hervey Allen and His Poetry: A Biographical and Critical Sketch, by Alexander L. Blackburn, White Carbon Manuscript and Correspondence, May 1959
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Hervey Allen: A Modern Fennimore Cooper and Dr. Johnsonby Ronald Williams, Typescript Manuscript and Notes
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The Selected Poems of Hervey Allen with a Foreword by Robert Frost by Lawrence Lee, Typescript Manuscript
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Biographical Material
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Bibliography Material
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Subseries 2. General Publicity and Press, 1920-1950
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Scope and Content Notes: In this subseries are newspaper clippings and general publicity statements about Allen and his work. Included are reviews, interviews, and itineraries of Allen's publicity tours.
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Biographical, 1950
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Personal and Prose, 1930-1948
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Poetry, 1920-1925
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Scrapbook Clippings, 1924-1926
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Subseries 3. Publicity, Press, and Reviews about Work, 1921-1950
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Scope and Content Notes: In this subseries are newspaper clippings, press releases, promotional posters, reviews, and publicity statements about particular Allen works.
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See Also: Oversized Material, Hervey Allen Promotional Posters, Box 192. |
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Action at Aquila, 1938
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Anthony Adverse, 1933-1936
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The Disinherited Series, 1947-1948
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The Forest and the Fort, 1943
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Israfel, 1926-1949
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It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War, 1940
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Toward the Flame, 1934-1950
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Toward the Morning, 1946-1948
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Toward the Morning, 1948
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Toward the Morning, 1948-1949
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Wampum and Old Gold, 1921-1922
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Subseries 4. Obituaries and Memorials, 1949-1953
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Scope and Content Notes: This subseries features newspaper clippings and press releases reporting on Hervey Allen's death. It also features documents relating to Allen's Arlington National Cemetery burial and memorials dedicated to Allen's memory at the University of Miami and University of Pittsburgh.
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Obituaries, 1949-1950
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Arlington National Cemetery Grave, 1950
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University of Miami Memorial, 1950
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Pitt Quarterly, 1948-1953
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