Collection Inventory

Series I. Early Life, Education, Military and Academic Careers, 1890-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This series includes material related to Hervey Allen’s early life in Pittsburgh. Some materials included are ephemeral materials from his childhood, his paramilitary involvement with the Hiland Cadets and the US Naval Academy, his military papers during his service in World War I, and his years as an academic instructor in Charleston, South Carolina and New York.

See Also: For related oversized material, please see Oversized Materials series Box 189-190.

Subseries 1. Early Life and Education, 1890-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This first subseries includes material from Hervey Allen's childhood years, paramilitary activities, and education, including his involvement with the Hiland Cadets of which he was a part of in his teenage years. The "Ideal Scrapbook," a scrapbook Allen maintained while at the Naval Academy in his early twenties, features collected letters, photographs, drawings, and some early amateur writtings. Also featured are correspondence and associated materials Allen maintained with the University of Pittsburgh and the Sigma Chi fraternity. Notes he maintained for an English course he took at Harvard University are also featured.

See Also: Please note: some photographs are included in this subseries, however, duplicates of these and the bulk of photographs can be found in Box 175. In addition, related material can be found in Boxes 189-190.

Box 1

Folder

1

Birth Announcement, Baby Photographs, and Juvenilia, 1890-1896

Folder

2-3

The Hiland Cadets, 1908-1915

Folder

4

U.S. Naval Academy Ideal Scrapbook, 1909-1910

Folder

5

U.S. Naval Academy Ideal Scrapbook (Loose Leaf Material), 1909-1914

Box 2

Folder

1

Pittsburgh University (University of Pittsburgh), 1913-1915

Folder

2-4

Pittsburgh University (University of Pittsburgh), 1919-1949

Folder

5-7

Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1912-1949

Folder

8

Harvard University English Course Material, 1922

Subseries 2. Military, 1916-1935

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries chronicles Allen's military career, from his involvement with the Pennsylvania National Guard at the Mexican Border in 1916 to his deployment with the American Expeditionary Forces to France during World War I, to his Veteran Benefits documents. Allen's development as a writer is evidenced in his correspondence to his family during his military tours. In his August 5, 1918 letter to his aunt Mae he writes about the daily gross casualties at the "thick of war" and mentions, "I have some grand poems coming along." His observations and his growing disenchantment with the notion of war are evident in his notebook and letter writing from which Allen gathered much inspiration for his later works. Paricularly, his August 17, 1918 letter is written in a lucid narrative that later inspired Toward the Flame. Included in this subseries are correspondence, early writtings, official military papers, photographs, and an early will written while Allen was at the French front dated June 10, 1918.

See Also: For more photographs taken by Hervey Allen while at the Mexican Border in Ysleta, Texas please see Box 178, Folder 6.

See Also: Related items, such as Allen’s combat uniform, oversized photographs, and honorary flags can be found in "Military Ephemera," Box 190, Series XI: Oversized Materials.

Folder

9

Letters Sent to Family at the Mexican Border, 1916-1917

Also includes letters sent from Camp Hancock in Augusta, Georgia while he was in the 28th Pennsylvania Division receiving training in preparation for World War I deployment to France during the autumn of 1917.

Folder

10

Photographs from the Mexican Border, 1916-1917

See Also: Box 178, Folder 6 for more photographs.

Folder

11

Letters Sent to Family (pre-WWI Deployment), 1918

Box 3

Folder

1-2

Letters Sent to Family (post-WWI Deployment), 1918

Folder

3-4

Military Papers, 1918-1920

Folder

5-6

Khaki WWI Notebook of Poetry, Letters, and Will, 1918

Folder

7

Veteran Benefits Documents, 1922-1935

Subseries 3. Academic and Teaching Career, 1919-1946

Scope and Content Notes: The subseries contains lesson plans, related correspondence, exams, and various assignments from Allen's stint as an academic instructor at Porter Military Academy and Charleston High School, South Carolina and at Columbia University and Vassar College in New York.

Folder

8

Porter Military Academy: Correspondence [Undated]

Folder

9

Porter Military Academy: Correspondence, 1919-1935

Folder

10

Porter Military Academy: Classroom Materials, 1920-1921

Folder

11

Porter Military Academy: Course Outlines, 1920-1921

Folder

12-13

Porter Military Academy: Assignments, 1921

Box 4

Folder

1-2

Porter Military Academy: Assignments, 1921

Folder

3

Porter Military Academy: Papers, 1919-1921

Folder

4

Charleston High School: Correspondence, 1921-1925

Folder

5

Charleston High School: First Term Notebook, 1921-1922

Folder

6

Charleston High School: Examinations, 1923-1926

Folder

7

Charleston High School: Course Materials, 1926

Folder

8

Charleston Notebook, 1921

Folder

9

Columbia University: Correspondence, 1923-1938

Folder

10-11

Vassar College: Correspondence, 1925-1946

Series II. Manuscripts, 1900-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This series includes all of Allen’s manuscript iterative drafts, notes, revisions, editions, and some correspondence related to research and manuscript production. The subseries are arranged according to title and genre (Poetry and Prose), as well as incomplete or unpublished material.

See Also: Oversized galleys of Allen's pre-published material are separately housed and can be found in Series XI: Oversized Material, Box 187-188.

Subseries 1. Poetry, 1900-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains early handwritten and typewritten rough drafts of mostly subsequently published poems. The first subseries features Allen's draft single leaf titles, the second subseries features collective manuscript material of Allen's major poems and collections, and the third features poetry written by other authors. Because many of the materials lack dates in particular the single title materials, titles are arranged alphabetically. Some materials lack a proper titles or have indecipherable titles. For these, titles with ellipses reflect indecipherable or illegible words or phrases. For materials without a clear given title, titles are borrowed from the first discernable verse of the poem and are in brackets.

Section: Single Titles

Box 5

Folder

1

Single Titles: A

1. After the March: Nogent l'Artaud, 1918

2. Afterglow, 1931

3. Aftermath, 1920

4. Alchemy

5. [All are snowcapped mountains…], 1900

6. Amelia Burr: A Ballad of Old Charleston

7. America’s First First

8. [And now he dwells…]

9. Anodyne

10. The Answer, 1917-1925

11. Any Time

12. The Apple Tree

13. An Approach to An Epitaph

14. Analia Felix

15. As It Was In The Beginning

16. Assama

17. At Alcantara

18. [At Azerbaijain in the lakes of Khar…], 1949

19. Autumn, 1918

20. Autumn Invocation: The Seasons Wait Their Turns Among the Stars

21. Autumn Portents

Folder

2

Single Titles: B

1. Bacchus Is Gone

2. Back River

3. [Bad the time and the bee…]

4. Ballad of Death Romance

5. Ballad of the Fruitless Plant

6. Banished

7. Baskets

8. Beaumont, 1918

9. Beauty and Love, 1916

10. [The bees once fell a quarreling on the couch…]

11. Bermuda

12. Bewitched: An Incident from the Life of Pierre Loti

13. Beyond Debate

14. Beyond the Night, 1916

15. Bibles

16. Big Bend

17. Big Cove

18. Bill, 1918

19. Biography and Epitaph of Verbum Sap

20. The Blindman: A Ballad of Nogent l'Artaud, 1918-1919

21. The Blockade Runner

22. Bright Star

23. Burnt Sons, 1945

24. Business

Folder

3

Single Titles: C

1. The Cat Man

2. The Cat Witch, 1926

3. The Children by the Lake of Dreams: A Persian Fragment, 1930

4. Christmas Coloure

5. Christmas Magic

6. [Clear as the burning heart of love…]

7. Clio

8. La Clouche Joyeuse

9. Les Cloches

10. Confession

11. Considerations: After the Fight at Croix Rouge Farm

12. Conversation in Morningside

Folder

4

Single Titles: D

1. The Dark Tower, 1916

2. Dark Tower by Night

3. Day Star

4. Death of the Elk

5. Dem Boids: A Ballad of the Bronx

6. [Dedicated to the man...]

7. [Democracy, the bastard bitch...]

8. Despair

9. Diana of the Dunes, 1925

10. [Debbie] Song

11. [The difficulty of making songs...]

12. Dirge

13. Dog Days

14. [The dog in the manger...]

15. Doomed

16. Dragon's Breath

17. Dream Flowers

18. Dream Fragment, 1920

19. Dream Friend

20. The Dream Wood

21. Dull Days

22. Dust

Folder

5

Single Titles: E

1. Easter, 1918

2. Echoes, 1915

3. Eclipse

4. El Paso, 1916

5. Elesmir

6. Encore un Autre, 1919

7. L'envoi

8. Epilogue

9. Eventide

Folder

6

Single Titles: F

1. Fable of the Dog and Cat

2. Fall

3. First Love

4. Fleur de Lis

5. [The flood of May has moved into June...]

6. For Annette's Andirons

7. For DuBose Heyward, 1940

8. [For though from gentle Jennifer...]

9. Forest Whisperers

10. Friendship

11. Four Proverbs of Hell

Folder

7

Single Titles: G

1. Gamesters All

2. Gemini

3. General Court Martial, 1919

4. Goat Song

5. [Goat of the [farther] left of old...]

6. Goin' Home?

8. The Gold Star, 1916

9. The Golden Ghost

10. Goodbye Sweet Day

11. The Goose Creek Voice

12. [The great [anthological] with front of brass…]

13. The Great Right Whale: A Fisherman's Prayer, 1947

Folder

8

Single Titles: H

1. Hadrian at Tivoli

2. Hag Hollerin' Time

3. [Hail bright [magical brat]...]

4. Hail Columbia

5. Hands Off! Dedicated to Orators and Others

6. Hark

7. Headlines

8. Helen

9. Hermitage

10. A Hermitage of Bells: A Fantasy

11. Hiking, 1916

12. The Holy Rood: A Chant

13. Horoscope for A.A.A.

14. The Hours of Childhood

15. [How did the archaeopteryx…]

16. The House by the Marsh, 1929

17. How Long

18. [How to propose none of us C…]

19. Human Hands

20. Hylas

21. A Hymn on Christmas Morning

22. Hymn to Time

Folder

9

Single Titles: I

1. [I think some dusk [they] metal [mice]…]

2. Illegitimate, 1925

3. In Dear Old Fashion '89

4. In Memoriam: Major Christopher Magee Anderson, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, 1916

5. In the Woods

6. Inspiration

7. [Into these dark pastures...]

8. Isis

9. Island Winter: Lat. 31 [degrees] N

Folder

10

Single Titles: J

1. Jewish Bonds and Genital [Reviews]

2. John Brashear

3. June

4. Jungle Night: To Ann's Bronze Elephants

Folder

11

Single Titles: K

1. The Kettle-Mending at La Luz

2. King Agog's Bed

Folder

12

Single Titles: L

1. La Fayette Lands

2. Landbound

3. The Last Crew

4. The Latter Day Saint

5. Light on the Hills

6. The Little One at Home, 1916

7. [The little poets of our great despair...]

8. Locusts, 1917

9. [Lumerary]

10. Lust

11. The Lute, 1919

Box 6

Folder

1

Single Titles: M

1. Macabre in Macaws

2. Madonna

3. The Mainspring

4. Major Andre's Flute and Shelley's Skylark

5. Manhattan Matins

6. Marcia's May-Day Song

7. The Marshland, 1919

8. Melpomeme's Song

9. Middleton's Gardens

10. Modern Philosopher

11. Moments, 1922

12 Montrogan

13. Moon Sonnet

14. The Mormon Trail

15. Morning Noon and Night

16. Mountain Interlude

17. Mourn, Psyche, Mourn!

18. The Murmuring River, 1909

19. Mutability, 1924

20. [My days and nights I have not idly spent...]

21. My Verdun

Folder

2

Single Titles: N

1. Nightingales are Scarce West of Exeter

2. Nostalgia

Folder

3

Single Titles: O

1. [O God looks down...]

2. October

3. An Ode: To be spoken on Memorial Day

4. Ode in Time of Madness: An Incantation, 1945

5. An Ode on Mutability

6. Ode to the Sun (Sol Invictus)

7. Oh, Where

8. The Old Judge, 1920

9. Old Meadows

10. The Old Song

11. [On a distant view of Oxford Tower...]

12. [On earth the wind as [evict] us death...]

13. [Once they looked and saw a valley...]

14. One of Hells Proverbs: Wash Day

15. [Only in dreams of morning...]

16. On the Bay

17. The Oriol

18. [Out out brief candle, now the...]

19. Overtones

Folder

4

Single Titles: P

1. Palmetto Town

2. [Panocia]

3. Paris, Mother of Dreams

4. Part of Angels Song for Christmas Hymn

5. Passes E.W.

6. Pay Day, 1916

7. The Pharaoh of Moses

8. Pines and Cones

9. The Pirates

10. Pittsburgh

11. Poe in Carolina: Alchemy

12. The Poets Epitaph

13. The Poor Poet

14. Portentia

15. Predicament

16. Presences

17. The Priest and the Pirate: The Ballad of Theodosia Burr

18. A Processional on Christmas Morning

19. Proem

20. Profile-axis

21. Progress

22. Prologue: Annie's Town Before the Mills Came

Folder

5

Single Titles: Q

1. The Quality of Beauty

2. Question, 1940

Folder

6

Single Titles: R

1. The Raid on Dun, 1919

2. The Rain Bell

3. [Ramses] Worship of the Third [Cataract]

4. Recollect

5. Relativity, 1922

6. A Rendezvous with Life

7. Rennaisance

8. Reply to Ambush

9. The Reubens of Brass

10. Reverie

11. Rhapsody

12. Rhetorical result of an Elegy for Amy Lowell

13. The Rivals

14. The Road Beyond the Tower

15. Roadside Epitaph

16. The Rose in Amber

Folder

7

Single Titles: S

1. The Sacrifice

2. Saga of Leif the Lucky, 1923

3. Salt o' the Earth, 1918

4. Salt Town

5. The Scandal

6. The Scissor Grinder

7. The Sea Bogy

8. The Seasons: Autumn Invocation

9. The Seasons: Winter

10. [See how the light falls...]

11. The Sewees of Sewee Bay

12. Shadow to Shadow

13. Silences

14. The Skull

15. Sleep, 1909

16. Sohrab and Rustum

17. Soldier Poet: To Francis Fowler Hogan

18. Source

19. Speak

20. The Spirit of the Maid, 1919

21. Spring Authentic

22. Spring Shadows

23. Springs Pilgrims

24. The Stars of God

25. Sullivan's Island: To E.A.P.

26. Summer Girl

27. A Summer Idyll

28. The Sunflower

29. Sylvan Poor, 1929

30. Symbols of Symbols

Folder

8

Single Titles: T

1. The Talker

2. [That's why I sit here now...]

3. That Tiger Cat of Ours

4. Theodesia Burr: Her Story as Told by an Old Confederate Naval Officer

5. [There is a [more]...]

6. They Say

7. They Watch and Wait, 1916

8. Thou Mother

9. Three Landscape Moods: High Tide o' Life

10. Three Lanscape Moods: Youth

11. Tiger Lilies

12. To a Certain Imagist

13. To a Frozen Butterfly

14. To a Portrait of Theodosia Burr

15. To Arthur in Avalon, 1932

16. To Harriette

17. To James Whitcomb Riley, 1916

18. To Ma, 1909

19. To My Dog

20. To My Grandparents on Their Fifty Third Wedding Anniversary, 1910

21. To My Happy Sister Helen

22. To My Father

23. To the Home Folks, 1916

24. To the Polius

25. To the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill: Christmas, 1941

26. To the Winged Victory of Samothrace

27. The Tower by Might

28. The Triumph of Edom: Palestine

29. Twilight, 1916

30. Twilight Escape

31. Two Pages from the Book of the Sea Islands: Shadows

32. The Two Republics

33. The Tyrant

Folder

9

Single Titles: U

1. [Up all you sluggish men of peace...], 1910

2. Upstairs Downstairs

Folder

10

Single Titles: V

1. The Vikings: North - Proem, 1923

2. The Vikings: Saga of Leif the Lucky, 1923

3. The Vikings: The Cat Witch, 1923

4. Village Voices

5. Voice of Live

Folder

11

Single Titles: W

1. Waitin' and Drillin', 1916

2. Walk [Broad] Song

3. War Clouds

4. The Watchful Waiting

5. We, 1919

6. [What sound to catch the thing...]

7. When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane, 1919

8. [When in the 1920's you began...]

9. [When in the night the [manifest] if island must...]

10. [When dwell and life [sit there]...]

11. [When the frost is on the [fancy kin]...]

12. Where the Sugar and Maple Grows

13. The Wind

14. The Wingless Victory, 1920

15. [With life that hurtles like a spark...]

Folder

12

Single Titles: Y

1. Yes

2. YS

Folder

13

Single Titles: Z

1. Zachias, 1946

Section: Major Poems and Collections

Box 7

Folder

1

Black Roses: Original Manuscript

Folder

2

Black Roses: Photograph

Folder

3

The Blindman: Original Manuscript and Correspondence 1919

Correspondence includes editorial conversations Allen had with Amy Lowell. Allen sent early drafts of The Blindman to Lowell who was influential in getting the manuscript published in the North American Review. In her September 12, 1919 letter to Allen she identifies that Allen had "improved [the poem] immensely" and talks about sending it to a "Mr. Sedgwick," most likely Atlantic Monthly's editor at the time, Ellery Sedgwick. The letter ends on a humorous note with Lowell stating Mr. Sedgwick does not know a poem from a potato, but sometimes his taste betrays him and he gets something good by mistake.

Folder

4

The Blindman: First and Second Proof

Folder

5

Carolina Chansons: Preface

Box 8

Folder

1

Carolina Chansons: Original Draft and Revisions, 1921

Folder

2

Carolina Chansons: Typed Copies

Folder

3

Christmas Epithalamium: Original Manuscript

Folder

4

Children of Earth (from Earth Moods)

Folder

4

Earth Moods: Original Manuscript

Folder

5

Flowers from Fields Aflame: Typewritten, 1917-1918

Box 9

Folder

1

The Leaping Poll: Original Manuscript

Folder

2

Mine Host: Original Manuscript, 1925

Folder

3

New Legends: Magazine Publications List

Folder

4

New Legends: Holograph Manuscript

Folder

5

New Legends: Poetic Attitude Holograph and Typed Manuscript

Folder

6

Saga Leif the Lucky: Preface

Folder

7

Saga Leif the Lucky: Original Manuscript

Folder

8

Saga Leif the Lucky and Other Poems, The Vikings: Typescript Manuscript, ca. 1925

Folder

9

Sarah Simon: Correspondence

Folder

10

Sarah Simon: Holograph Manuscript

Folder

11

Sarah Simon: Typed Manuscript

Folder

12

Sidonian Hanno: Original Manuscript, 1925

Folder

13

Songs for Annette: Preface

Box 10

Folder

1

Selected Poems: Typed White Manuscript

Section: Other Authors' Works

Folder

2

Poems Written by Various Authors

Subseries 2. Prose, 1917-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes bound and loose-leaf handwritten and typewritten drafts, proofs, prefaces, and related correspondence to the pre-publication of Hervey Allen’s prose, including various iterative drafts of his novels, short stories, and non-fiction material.

Section: Biographies, Novels, and Short Stories

Scope and Content Notes: This group includes handwritten, typewritten, original and various drafts and associated material of Hervey Allen's pre-published biographies, novels and short stories. Material is arranged in alphabetical, chronological, and when possible, in iterative order.

See Also: Box 187-188, Series X: Oversized Material for oversized galleys of particular manuscript titles in this subseries.

Box 11

Folder

1

Action at Aquila: Time Scheme, Character List, and Various Drafts, 1934-1938

Folder

2

Action at Aquila: Various Drafts of Chapters, Correspondence, Time Scheme, and Outline, 1935-1937

Folder

3

Action at Aquila: First Holograph Draft, 1937

Box 12

Folder

1

Action at Aquila: Prospectus, Historical Background, and Sources, 1938

Folder

2

Action at Aquila: Incomplete Typewritten Manuscript with Edits

Folder

3

Action at Aquila: Original [Incomplete] Typed Manuscript (Chapters 1-16)

Box 13

Folder

1

Action at Aquila: Edited Typed Manuscript of Final Version

Box 14

Folder

1

Action at Aquila: Setting Manuscript for Printer, 1937

Folder

2

Action at Aquila: Typed White Carbon

Box 15

Folder

1

Anthony Adverse: Various Preface Drafts and Syllabus of a Novel to be Called Anthony Adverse, 1932

Folder

2

Anthony Adverse: Preface, Author's Introduction to Limited Edition

Folder

3

Anthony Adverse: Preface/Author's Statement, 1945

Folder

4

Anthony Adverse: Preface, 1946

Folder

5

Anthony Adverse: Preface, Author's Introduction to Edition, 1946

Folder

6

Anthony Adverse: Synopses, Research Materials, and Notes

Folder

7

Anthony Adverse: Correspondence, Notes, Drafts of Chapters, and Map of New Orleans in 1815, 1932-1933

Folder

8

Anthony Adverse: Correspondence, Dedication, and Other Various Material, 1935-1937

Folder

9

Anthony Adverse: Partial First Handwritten Draft

Box 16

Folder

1

Anthony Adverse: Original Typescript, Volume I, 1933

Folder

2

Anthony Adverse: Original Typescript, Volume II, 1933

Box 17

Folder

1

Anthony Adverse: Original Typescript, Volume III, 1933

Folder

2

Anthony Adverse: Bound Typescript Draft, Volume I

Box 18

Folder

1

Anthony Adverse: Bound Typescript Draft, Volume II

Folder

2

Anthony Adverse: Bound Typescript Volume III

Box 19

Folder

1

Bedford Village: Holograph Manuscript ( The Disinherited, Book II)

Folder

2

Bedford Village: Yellow Typed Manuscript ( The Disinherited, Book II)

Box 20

Folder

1

Bedford Village: Cut Version with Changes

Folder

2

Bedford Village: Announcement and Notes

Folder

3

The City and the Dawn: Holograph Manuscript, 1949

Folder

4

The City and the Dawn: First Typed Draft

Folder

5

The City and the Dawn: Typed Copy of the Final Holograph Pages (1-50)

Folder

6

The Disinherited: Holograph Manuscript of Synopsis and Notes

Folder

7

The Disinherited: Synopsis and Notes, 1942

Folder

8

The Disinherited: Research Notes and Clippings, Copy of 1744 Treaty, Appendix

Folder

9

The Disinherited: Time Scheme and Historical Notes

Box 21

Folder

1

The Forest and the Fort: Holograph Manuscript Book I, 1942

Folder

2

The Forest and the Fort: Holograph Manuscript II

Folder

3

The Forest and the Fort: Holograph Manuscript III, 1940

Box 22

Folder

1

The Forest and the Fort: Cut Version with Changes ( The Disinherited, Book I), 1942

Folder

2

The Forest and the Fort: Yellow Typed Manuscript ( The Disinherited, Book I), 1942

Folder

3

The Forest and the Fort: [Incomplete] Typed Manuscript

Box 23

Folder

1-2

Israfel: Research, Correspondence and Cover Material, 1917-1926

Folder

3

Israfel: Unused Illustrations, 1926

Folder

4

Israfel: Notes on Poe from Various Sources, 1926

Folder

5

Israfel: Printed Pages (1-932)

Box 24

Folder

1

Israfel: Typed Fragment as it First Began

Folder

2

Israfel: Handwritten Preface to First Issue and Re-Issue, 1926; 1934

Folder

3

Israfel: Carbon Copy of Beginning, 1926

Folder

4

Israfel: Various Sheets and Chapters, Vol. I (Lacks Chapters 10,11,17), 1926

Folder

5

Israfel: Partial Handwritten and Typewritten Manuscript, 1926

Box 25

Folder

1

Israfel: Typed Manuscript, (Chapters 1-11), 1926

Folder

2

Israfel: [Incomplete] Early Typewritten and Handwritten Draft, 1926

Box 26

Folder

1-2

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War: Syllabus, Introduction, and Various Drafts, 1939

Folder

3

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War: Handwritten Holograph, 1939

Folder

4

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War: Typed Manuscript, 1939

Folder

5

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War: Typed White Carbon

Box 27

Folder

1

Richfield Springs: Handwritten Holograph (Notes, General Approach, Outline, Headings), 1935

Folder

2

Richfield Springs: Handwritten Holograph (p. 85, Chapters 1-4)

Folder

3

Richfield Springs: Various Versions of Typed Manuscripts (First Typed Manuscript)

Folder

4

Richfield Springs: Typed Carbon Manuscript (Chapters 1-4)

Folder

5

Richfield Springs: Typed Draft for Curtis Brown Ltd. (Chapters 1-4)

Box 28

Folder

1

Toward the Flame: Original Handwritten Letter from Hervey Allen on Active Duty, Inspiration for Toward the Flame, 1918

Folder

2

Toward the Flame: [Formally "Targets"], Manuscript, 1925

Folder

3

Toward the Flame: Typed White Carbon, 1918-1925

Folder

4

Toward the Flame: Preface to Re-Issued Edition, 1933

Box 29

Folder

1

Toward the Morning: Handwritten Partial Drafts, Announcement, Rejected Pages, and Revised Typewritten Drafts

Folder

2

Toward the Morning: Complete Yellow Typed Manuscript ( The Disinherited, Book III), 1945

Box 30

Folder

1

Toward the Morning: Holograph Handwritten Manuscript (Chapters 1-17), ( The Disinherited, Book III)

Folder

2

Toward the Morning: Holograph Handwritten Manuscript (Chapters 18-25), ( The Disinherited, Book III)

Box 31

Folder

1

Toward the Morning: Complete Typed White Carbon Manuscript, 1948

Section: Articles, Essays, and Plays

Box 32

Folder

1

The ABC of Reviewing

Folder

2

Amy Lowell as a Poet, 1926

Folder

3

An Appreciation [To the Notable Library of Major W. Van R. Whithall], 1927

Folder

4

Anthony Adverse: The Sources of, 1934

Folder

5

The Arkansas Kookamoosa

Folder

6

Books as Gifts and Other Things, 1949

Folder

7

A Boy's Memory of Bedford Fifty Years Ago

Folder

8

Cats versus Dogs; Crossroads; Cupid’s Pitcher, [University of Pittsburgh folder]

Folder

9

Of Cities

Folder

10

Edgar Allan Poe, on the Dictionary of American Biography

Folder

11

Felicity Haul: The Story of Old Bermuda, 1931

Folder

12

The First Co-ed: A Ballad of Pitt

Folder

13

The Flood: A One Act Play

Folder

14

A Golden Century of American Verse, 1927

Folder

15

Harvest and Reapers: An Anthology of American Poetry from 1613 to 1925

Folder

16

An Island Crisis

Folder

17

Moderation

Folder

18

Monday Morning to You

Folder

19

My Grandfather’s Peg Leg

Folder

20

The Passing of Amy Lowell, 1925

Folder

21

The Passing of Despair

Folder

22

Poetry South

Box 33

Folder

1

The Rise of the New Whaling Industry

Folder

2-3

Roman Britain, 1929

Folder

4

Santa Claus, Triplets

Folder

5

Ysleta

Section: Prefaces, Reviews, and Other Short Works

Folder

6

George Ade Obituary, Sigma Chi Newsletter

Folder

7

Introduction to a Poe Anthology, Edited By Addison Hibbard, 1927

Folder

8

Jacob Secley, An Epitaph

Folder

9

Preface for Bermudiana By Ronald John Williams, 1936

Folder

10

Preface for Julie Eidesheim Book, 1938

Folder

11

Preface for Limited Editions Club

Folder

12

Preface for The Gold Bug Edition By Edgar Allen Poe

Folder

13

Preface for Lute and Scimitar: Poems and Ballads of Central Asia By Abdullah Achmed, 1927

Folder

14

Preface for Notes of Life and Death By Theodore Morrison, 1935

Folder

15

Preface for The Old House in the Country By Lizette Woodworth Reese, 1936

Folder

16

Preface for Residence in Bermuda

Folder

17

Report on Royal America: The Story of Henry Bouquet By G.M. Sassaman, 1943

Folder

18

Review of American Poetry from the Beginning to Whitman By Louis Untermeyer, 1931

Folder

19

Review of Amy Lowell: a chronicle, with extracts from her correspondence By Samuel Foster Damon

Folder

20

Review of Broken Ties and Other Stories By Rabinandrath Tagore, 1926

Folder

21

Review of Dark Glory: A Story of Edgar Allan Poe By Dorothy Dow

Folder

22

Review of Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius By Joseph Wood Krutch, 1926

Folder

23

Review of The Emily Dickinson Letters By Mabel Loomis Todd, 1929-1931

Folder

24

Review of Emily Dickinson Research Notes, 1929-1931

Folder

25

Review of John Brown’s Body By Stephen Vincent Benet, 1923-1924

Folder

26

Review of The Land of the Crooked Tree By Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, 1948

Folder

27

Review of Little Man What Now? By Hans Fallada, 1934

Folder

28

Review of The Portable Poe Edited By Philip Van Doren Stern

Folder

29

Review of Quaker Militant - John Greenleaf Whitter By Albert Mordell, 1933

Folder

30

Review of Sanfelice By Vincent Sheean, 1936

Folder

31

Review of The Sonnets of Petrarch Translated By Joseph Auslander

Folder

32

Review of We Can Win This War By W.F. Kernan, 1943

Folder

33

Review of Young Pegasus, Prose and Verse By The Intercollegiate Literary Magazine Conference, 1926

Folder

34

Street Dust and Pollen [Review of Indian Summer; Flame and Dust; The Poets of the Future, A College Anthology; University of Washington Poems, First Series; and Column Poets, 1925

Subseries 3. Incomplete/Unidentified Material

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes notes and drafts of incomplete or unidentifiable Allen works. Those that have been identified are arranged and grouped alphabetically while others are arranged according to genre.

Box 34

Folder

1-6

A-M

Folder

7-10

N-Z

Folder

11

Unidentified Poems

Folder

12

Unidentified Prose

Folder

13

Unidentified/Unknown Prose Material Related to Edgar Allan Poe Work

Subseries 4. Unpublished Material, 1918-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This material, while some may be incomplete, is much more developed and further along the completion process than material featured in the Incomplete/Unidentified Material subseries. All material in this subseries is titled and may include abstracts, character plots, summaries, and drafts of various Allen unpublished works. Notable is the nascent beginning of a novel, Usted Stanes, set in the future 2015. It was begun October 20th, 1949, just two months before Allen's passing.

Box 35

Folder

1

The Bigger and Better Mr. Peter Polite

Folder

2

Poems

Folder

3

Noodin Nanny: A Small Town Story, 1918

Folder

4

Usted Stanes: Holograph Manuscript, 1949

Series III. Published Material, 1919-1945

Scope and Content Notes: This series consists of journal and magazine publications of Allen’s work. Allen at times published individual poems or serialized installments of his prose in literary journals and commercial magazines such as Cosmopolitan. Note: this series only includes periodical publications and is not an exhaustive representation of Hervey Allen's published works.

See Also: Oversized serial publications are separately housed and can be found in Series XI: Oversized Material, Box 191.

See Also: Hervey Allen’s personal library of his published works is cataloged separately and is available by call number in the Special Collections stacks. Please see Special Collections staff for more information.

Subseries 1. Poetry, 1919-1935

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes Allen's personal copies and/or special editions of his published poetry. Featured are individual poetry submissions to various journal publications. Some material is enclosed in special containers.

Box 36

Folder

1

America’s First First, in Theatre Arts Monthly, July 1925

Folder

2

Belated Spring; Carolina Spring Song; Heart of Night; Shadow to Shadow, in The Yearbook of the Poetry Society of South Carolina, 1921-1924

Folder

3

Black Roses, in The North American Review, April 1923

Folder

4

The Blindman, in The North American Review, December 1919

Folder

5

The Bride of Huiltzil: An Aztec Legend, (loose leaf), 1922

Folder

6

Christmas Coloure, in The Christmas Herald, December 1921

Folder

7

Confession, in Contemporary Verse, May 1921

Box 37

Folder

1

Dead Men: To A Metaphysician, in The Bookman, May 1922

Folder

2

Despair, in Contemporary Verse, May 1921

Folder

3

Dream Fragment, in The New Republic, July 1920

Folder

4

Gargantua and Transfiguration, in The Scholastic, October 1926

Folder

5

Hylas and Poe in Carolina [article], in The North American Review, October 1920; July 1922

Folder

6

La Cloche Joyeuse,The Pitt Review, March 1920

Folder

7

The Leaping Poll, in The London Mercury, August 1922

Folder

8

Moments, in Contemporary Verse, April 1922

Folder

9

Northern Earth Mood, in Poetry, March 1925

Folder

10

The Old Judge, in The Southern Review, September 1920

Box 38

Folder

1

Portentia, in The Reviewer, May 1922

Folder

2

Refuge, in Contemporary Verse, October 1922

Folder

3

Samples: Limited Edition Club, A Prefatory Essay, 1934-1935

Folder

4

Saga of Leif the Lucky, in The Bookman, December 1923

Folder

5

The Sea-Islands, in Poetry, April 1922

Folder

6

Southward Sidonian Hanno, in The Measure, October 1924

Folder

7

Wampum and Old Gold, in The Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1921

Folder

8

The Wanderer, in Contemporary Verse, June 1924

Folder

9

We, in Life, October 1919

Folder

10

When Shady Avenue Was Shady Lane, 1919

Subseries 2. Prose, 1926-1945

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes Allen's personal copies and/or special editions of his published prose. Featured are individual short story and essay submissions to various publications. Some material is enclosed in special containers.

Box 39

Folder

1

Action at Aquila: First Two Installments, in Cosmopolitan, October 1937; November 1937

Folder

2

Blood Lust, in Cosmopolitan, July 1936

Folder

3

Bread Loaf, in The Writer, April 1935

Folder

4

Brief History: A Postscript, in Carnegie Magazine, October 1945

Folder

5

English and Choctaw, in The North American Review, June 1926

Folder

6

History and the Novel, in The Atlantic Bookshelf, and The Writer, February 1944; October 1944

Folder

7

Jacob Sealy, An Epitaph, in The Bermudian, September 1932

Folder

8

A Personal Historian’s Novel ( Sanfelice Review), in The Saturday Review of Literature, June 1936

Folder

9

Report to Major Roberts, in Cosmopolitan, February 1940

Series IV. Prose and Press About, 1920-1959

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.

Subseries 1. Autobiographical and Biographical Prose, 1933-1959

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.

Box 40

Folder

1

Anthony Adverse and Mr. Allen, by William F. Allison in The Pittsburgh Record, November 1933

Folder

2

Biographical Notes, Loose Leaf

Folder

3

Biographical Notes, in The Pennsylvania Guardsman, August 1934

Folder

4

Cow-boy (Hervey) Allen of Charleston, in The Literary Digest, August 1934

Folder

5

Hervey Allen and His Poetry: A Biographical and Critical Sketch, by Alexander L. Blackburn, White Carbon Manuscript and Correspondence, May 1959

Folder

6

Hervey Allen: A Modern Fennimore Cooper and Dr. Johnsonby Ronald Williams, Typescript Manuscript and Notes

Folder

7

The Selected Poems of Hervey Allen with a Foreword by Robert Frost by Lawrence Lee, Typescript Manuscript

Folder

8-9

Biographical Material

Folder

10

Bibliography Material

Subseries 2. General Publicity and Press, 1920-1950

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.

Folder

11

Biographical, 1950

Folder

12

Cartoons, 1939

Folder

13-15

Personal and Prose, 1930-1948

Box 41

Folder

1

Poetry, 1920-1925

Folder

2

Mailing Lists

Folder

3

Scrapbook Clippings, 1924-1926

Subseries 3. Publicity, Press, and Reviews about Work, 1921-1950

Scope and Content Notes: In this subseries are newspaper clippings, press releases, promotional posters, reviews, and publicity statements about particular Allen works.

See Also: Oversized Material, Hervey Allen Promotional Posters, Box 192.

Folder

4-5

Action at Aquila, 1938

Box 42

Folder

1-3

Anthony Adverse, 1933-1936

Folder

4-6

The Disinherited Series, 1947-1948

Box 43

Folder

1-2

The Forest and the Fort, 1943

Folder

3

Israfel, 1926-1949

Folder

4

It Was Like This: Two Stories of the Great War, 1940

Folder

5

Toward the Flame, 1934-1950

Folder

6

Toward the Morning, 1946-1948

Folder

7

Toward the Morning, 1948

Box 44

Folder

1

Toward the Morning, 1948-1949

Folder

2

Wampum and Old Gold, 1921-1922

Subseries 4. Obituaries and Memorials, 1949-1953

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.

Folder

3

Obituaries, 1949-1950

Folder

4

Arlington National Cemetery Grave, 1950

Folder

5

University of Miami Memorial, 1950

Folder

6

Pitt Quarterly, 1948-1953

Series V. General Correspondence, 1903-1972

Scope and Content Notes: This series consists of general correspondence between Allen and individuals or institutions. While some correspondence with individual figures located in the General Correspondence may arguably be of literary nature, the material found in this series may include personal correspondence/subject matter, while the following Literary Correspondence series is thematically concentrated on literary production.

Subseries 1. Individuals and Institutions, 1903-1972

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries features Hervey Allen's general correspondence with individuals and institutions. Related correspondence can be found in other series (i.e. family correspondence and literary correspondence). This material may include business, personal, or philanthropic correspondence between Allen and other parties. An existing arrangement prior to the 2012 arrangement organized single loose correspondence material in alphabetical folders (i.e. Ta-Th), listed by surname or institution.

Box 45

Folder

1

Abdullah, Achmed, 1925

Folder

2

Ade, George, 1934

Folder

3

Alexander, Elizabeth A., 1921-1947

Folder

4

Aley, Maxwell, 1930-1949

Folder

5

Alston, B. F., 1921-1922

Folder

6

American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1938-1950

Folder

7

American Amateur Press Association, 1945

Folder

8

American Association of University Women, 1923-1948

Folder

9

American Battle Monuments Commission, 1926-1929

Folder

10

American Civil Liberties Union, 1940-1949

Folder

11

American Committee for Refugee Scholars, Writers, and Artists, 1945

Folder

12

American Folklore Society, 1944

Folder

13

American Foundation, Inc., 1943-1947

Folder

14

American Friends of Lafayette, 1933-1934

Folder

15

American Legion, 1919-1945

Folder

16

American Library Association, 1933-1948

Folder

17

American Notes and Queries, 1941-1944

Folder

18

American Peoples Encyclopedia, 1945

Folder

19

Anderson, E.H., 1921-1928

Folder

20

Anderson, Maxwell, 1924

Folder

21

Appel, Doris, 1944-1949

Folder

22

Atlantic Monthly, 1929-1944

Folder

23-24

Author's League of America, 1923-1948

Folder

25-28

A-Al, 1921-1949

Box 46

Folder

1-6

Am-Ap, 1923-1949

Folder

7-9

Ar-Az, 1918-1945

Folder

10-11

Bacon, Leonard, 1926-1947

Folder

12

Baker, Charles, 1938-1949

Folder

13

Baldwin, Jos. Honorable, 1946

Folder

14

Bank of Manhattan Co., 1933-1943

Folder

15

Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil, 1934-1947

Folder

16-17

Barr, Stringfellow, 1937-1947

Folder

18

Barrow, Elfrida, 1922-1923

Folder

19

Barth, Sawyer Ramona, 1941-1949

Folder

20

Barton, Alfred I, 1934-1941

Box 47

Folder

1

Bates, Francis, 1927-1928

Folder

2

Bates, Katherine Lee, 1925-1926

Folder

3

Baxter, John M., 1940-1949

Folder

4

Beal, Howard, 1934

Folder

5-6

Bedford Springs Hotel, 1949

Folder

7

Bellaman, Henry, 1923

Folder

8

Benedict, C.M., 1921-1939

Folder

9

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1928-1943

Folder

10

Benét, William Rose, 1923-1948

Folder

11-14

Bennett, John, 1919-1949

Folder

15-17

Bennett, Susan, 1921-1951

Folder

18

Bernays, Edward L., 1943-1945

Folder

19

Bingham, Millicent, 1926-1933

Folder

20

Biscaye Bay Yacht Club, 1946-1949

Folder

21

Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936-1948

Folder

22

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1921

Folder

23

Bookman, The, 1921-1927

Box 48

Folder

1

Bradley Van Allen, 1948-1951

Folder

2

Bragg, Laura M., 1925-1948

Folder

3

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1922-1926

Folder

4

Brick Row Book Shop, 1922-1923

Folder

5

Bromfield, Louis, 1944

Folder

6

Broughton, Averall, 1930-1936

Folder

7-8

Broughton, Phillip, 1944-1949

Folder

9

Brown, Lawrence, 1933-1934

Folder

10-11

Bushy Run Park, 1948-1949

Folder

12

Butcher, Fanny, 1933-1948

Folder

13-16

Bab-Bax, 1921-1949

Folder

17-20

Bee-Beets, 1921-1948

Folder

21-23

Bi-Bl, 1926-1949

Box 49

Folder

1-2

Bo-Boz, 1920-1948

Folder

3-7

Br-By, 1919-1948

Folder

8

Cambiare, C.P., 1935

Folder

9

Canby, Henry Seidel, 1923-1941

Folder

10

Carmer, Carl, 1940-1949

Folder

11

Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1926-1948

Folder

12

Chambrum, Jacques, 1939-1947

Folder

13-16

Chapin, Henry, 1931-1949

Folder

17

Churchill, Winston, 1944

Box 50

Folder

1

Coblentz, Stanton A., 1927

Folder

2

Colum, Padraic, 1921-1935

Folder

3

Conant, Isabel Fiske, 1924-1946

Folder

4

Cook, Mrs. Anthony Wayne, 1921-1922

Folder

5

Cram, Josephine B., 1925

Folder

6

Crowell, Thomas Y., 1935

Folder

7

Curtis Brown Ltd., 1935-1951

Folder

8-11

Ca, 1922-1950

Folder

12-15

Cha-Chu, 1927-1950

Box 51

Folder

1-3

Cla-Cly, 1935-1948

Folder

4-5

Coa-Col, 1919-1950

Folder

6-7

Com-Con, 1928-1948

Box 52

Folder

1-2

Coo-Cor, 1928-1950

Folder

3-4

Cos-Coy, 1928-1950

Folder

5

Cr-Cz, 1920-1948

Folder

6-7

Davidson, Edward, 1927-1949

Folder

8

Davidson, Natalie, 1928-1927

Folder

9

Day, The John Co., 1931-1934

Folder

10-11

George H. Doran Co., 1923-1947

Folder

12

Duell, Sloan and Pearce Inc., 1947-1948

Folder

13

Dreppard, Carl W., 1943-1949

Folder

14

Deutsch, Babbatte, 1922-1925

Folder

15

DeVoto, Bernard, 1937-1946

Box 53

Folder

1

Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1925-1944

Folder

2

Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925-1944

Folder

3

Douglas, Margory Stoneman, 1939-1949

Folder

4

Dodd, Mead and Co., 1944

Folder

5-6

Dodge, Howard A., 1935-1947

Folder

7

Drake, James F., 1921-1948

Folder

8

Drinkwater, John, 1921-1923

Folder

9

Dunbar Brander, AA, 1934

Folder

10

Durham, Elizabeth Makolm, 1925-1926

Folder

11

Dutton, E.P. and Co., Inc., 1937-1948

Folder

12-16

Da-Di, 1928-1953

Box 54

Folder

1-2

Do-Dz, 1927-1949

Folder

3-4

Edward MacDowell Association, 1927-1947

Box 55

Folder

1

Eidesheim, Julie M., 1933-1948

Folder

2

Emery, Posey Byron, 1924

Folder

3

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1924-1935

Folder

4

Engle, Paul, 1938-1949

Folder

5

Erskine, John, 1922-1947

Folder

6-7

Ea-Ek, 1924-1949

Folder

8-12

El-Ez, 1922-1949

Folder

13

Farrar, Straus and Co. Inc., 1946-1949

Folder

14-15

Franklin, Dwight, 1923-1934

Folder

16

Frost, Robert, 1930-1948

Folder

17

Frost, Susan Pringle, 1921-1927

Folder

18

Fulton, John Dickson, 1916-1934

Box 56

Folder

1-3

Fa-Fe, 1923-1949

Folder

4-6

Fi-Fl, 1923-1949

Folder

7-10

Fo-Fu, 1922-1949

Folder

11

Galt, Tom, 1934

Folder

12-14

Gaul, Harriet, 1916-1950

Folder

15-17

Gaul, Harvey, 1912-1948

Box 57

Folder

1

Gay, Robert, 1930-1939

Folder

2

Goldsborough, T. Alan, 1936-1937

Folder

3

Gow, J. Steele, 1920-1938

Folder

4

Golloancz, Victor, Ltd., 1933-1941

Folder

5-6

Grove, Robert, 1920-1940

Folder

7-8

Ga, 1922-1949

Folder

9-11

Ge-Go, 1903-1949

Folder

12-14

Gr-Gz, 1922-1949

Box 58

Folder

1

Hatter and McNab, 1940-1949

Folder

2

Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1920-1948

Folder

3

Harper and Brothers, 1924-1949

Folder

4

Harjes, C. Berwind, 1939-1946

Folder

5-6

Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, 1948-1949

Box 59

Folder

1

Henderson, Robert C., 1921-1939

Folder

2-4

Henniker-Heaton, Christopher Robin, 1940-1949

Folder

5-6

Henniker-Heaton, Sir Herbert, 1927-1949

Folder

7

Herald Tribune, 1933-1940

Folder

8-12

Heyward, DuBose, 1921-1951

Folder

13

Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1940-1949

Folder

14

Hjort, Edith, 1947-1949

Folder

15

Hodgson, E.F., Co., 1932-1939

Folder

16

Holt, Henry and Co., 1939-1946

Folder

17

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932-1939

Folder

18

Howard, Sidney, 1919-1942

Folder

19

Howland, William, 1940-1949

Box 60

Folder

1

Hufnal, Joseph M., 1932-1944

Folder

2-4

Haa-Ham, 1920-1949

Folder

5-7

Han-Haz, 1922-1950

Folder

8-9

He-Hi, 1920-1949

Folder

10-12

Hoa-Hoy, 1917-1962

Folder

13

Hsieh, Chiao-Min, 1967-1972

Box 61

Folder

1-2

Hu-Hz, 1922-1954

Folder

3

In the Wake of the Ebb, From Marne to the Vesle

Folder

4

International Mark Twain Society, 1933-1949

Folder

5

I, 1921-1950

Folder

6

Jackson, Schuyler, 1922-1939

Folder

7

Johnson, Burgess, 1934-1948

Folder

8

Johnston, Charles, 1934-1940

Folder

9-12

J, 1923-1950

Folder

13

Keedrick, Lee, 1939-1948

Folder

14

Ketchum, Carlton, 1921-1949

Folder

15

Ketchum, Kenneth, 1926-1928

Folder

16

Kinsolving, Sally Bruce, 1922-1939

Folder

17

Kiskiminetas, Springs School, 1945-1948

Folder

18

Knopf, Alfred A. Inc., 1933-1946

Folder

19

Kreymborg, Alfred, 1953

Box 62

Folder

1-2

Ka-Ke, 1919-1951

Folder

3-4

Ki-Kz, 1921-1949

Folder

5-6

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1934-1948

Folder

7

Laing, Alexander, 1926-1951

Folder

8

League of American Writers, Inc., 1938-1940

Folder

9

Lee, Lawrence, 1933

Folder

10

Lewis, Mary

Folder

11

Life Magazine, 1919-1939

Folder

12

Limited Editions Club, 1934-1938

Folder

13-14

Lindsey, Therese, 1921-1935

Folder

15

Literary Guild for America, 1948

Folder

16

Literary Review of the NY Evening Post, 1921-1924

Folder

17

Little, Brown and Co., 1934-1945

Folder

18

Longmans, Green and Co., 1935-1948

Folder

19-20

Lowell, Amy, 1919-1946

Folder

21

Lowes, John L., Prof., 1923-1944

Box 63

Folder

1-3

La-Le, 1921-1949

Folder

4

Li-Ll, 1920-1949

Folder

5-6

Loa-Loy, 1920-1949

Folder

7-8

Lu-Lz, 1921-1949

Folder

9

MacLeish, Archibald, 1920-1945

Folder

10

McCole, Camille, Prof., 1931-1935

Folder

11

McCormick, Samuel B., 1918-1930

Folder

12

MacDowell, 1921-1949

Folder

13

MacFarlane, George, 1925

Folder

14

The MacMillan Co., 1922-1949

Box 64

Folder

1-2

McA-McD, 1920-1949

Folder

3-5

McE-McW, 1916-1949

Folder

6

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1926-1941

Folder

7

Maelstrom, 1944-1945

Folder

8

Magazine, 1936-1953

Folder

9

Mason, Scotty, 1937-1945

Folder

10

The Measure, 1921-1934

Folder

11

Miller, Edward T., 1937-1947

Folder

12

Mitchell, Margaret, 1940-1949

Folder

13

Monroe, Harriet, 1921-1933

Folder

14

Moore, Colleen, 1935

Folder

15-16

Morrison, Theodore, Prof., 1930-1949

Folder

17

Morrison, Mrs., 1950

Box 65

Folder

1-7

Ma-May, 1922-1949

Folder

8-12

Me-Mi, 1922-1955

Folder

13-15

Mo-Mos, 1921-1949

Box 66

Folder

1-3

Mot-Muy, 1920-1952

Folder

4

Nash, Ogden, 1934-1936

Folder

5-10

National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1936-1950

Folder

11

Naylor, Justus B., 1937-1948

Folder

12

Naylor, Mrs., Lola B., 1927-1949

Folder

13

Neff, Emery, 1925-1927

Folder

14

New Democracy, 1933-1936

Box 67

Folder

1

New York Herald Tribune, 1926-1949

Folder

2

New York Hospital, 1947-1948

Folder

3

Newson, James C., 1934-1935

Folder

4

New York Times, 1923-1949

Folder

5

North American Review, 1919-1936

Folder

6-7

Na-Nay, 1922-1949

Folder

8-10

Ne-Noy, 1920-1949

Folder

11

Nu-Nz, 1934-1939

Folder

12

Owens, Hamilton, 1935-1950

Box 68

Folder

1-3

O, 1916-1949

Folder

4

Patric, John, 1938-1949

Folder

5-6

The P.E.N. Club, 1925-1946

Folder

7

Peppard, G.M., 1943-1949

Folder

8

Peterboro Anthology, 1921-1923

Folder

9

Phelps, William Lyon, 1921-1941

Folder

10

Phi Beta Kappa, 1936-1947

Folder

11

Phillips Academy, 1923-1931

Folder

12-13

Pinckley, Josephine, 1921-1948

Folder

14

The Players, 1927-1940

Folder

15

Pleadwell, Frank Lester, 1927-1942

Folder

16

Poetry, 1917-1949

Box 69

Folder

1

Porcher, Mary F. Wickham, 1924-1949

Folder

2

Porter, H.A., 1947-1948

Folder

3-5

Pa-Pe, 1918-1949

Folder

6-7

Phi-Por, 1921-1951

Folder

8

Pos-Py, 1919-1950

Folder

9

Q, 1921-1946

Folder

10

Railway Express Agency, 1942-1949

Folder

11

Random House, Inc., 1937-1944

Folder

12

Ravenel, Beatrice, 1922-1927

Folder

13-14

Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1919-1941

Box 70

Folder

1

Repp, Lida B., 1925-1943

Folder

2

Roberts, Kenneth, 1938-1949

Folder

3

Robinson, E.A., 1921-1935

Folder

4

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1940-1944

Folder

5

Ross, Malcom, 1947-1948

Folder

6

Rudge, William Edwin, 1924-1936

Folder

7

Russell, Ada, 1922-1933

Folder

8-12

Ra-Re, 1918-1960

Folder

13-17

Rh-Ru, 1921-1949

Box 71

Folder

1-2

Saturday Review of Literature, 1924-1948

Folder

3

St. Gaudens, Paul, 1945-1946

Folder

4-7

St. John's College, 1945-1948

Folder

8

Schmitt, Howard, 1940-1946

Folder

9

Scribner, Charles, 1934-1944

Folder

10-11

Shady Side Academy, 1932-1949

Folder

12

Sloane, William, 1939-1945

Folder

13

Sloane, William Associates, 1940-1949

Folder

14-16

Spicer-Simson, Theodore, 1921-1949

Box 72

Folder

1

The State, 1922-1925

Folder

2

Strauss, Roger, 1946

Folder

3-6

Surf Club Miami, 1934-1949

Folder

7-8

Saa-Say, 1921-1949

Folder

9-11

Sb-Sc, 1923-1951

Folder

12-13

Sea-Sey, 1924-1949

Box 73

Folder

1-2

Sha-Shu, 1923-1949

Folder

3-5

Si-Sm, 1918-1949

Folder

6

Sinclair, Upton, 1934-1935

Folder

7-10

Sn-Sr, 1920-1950

Box 74

Folder

1-3

Sta-Sty, 1920-1954

Folder

4

Su-Sy, 1922-1949

Folder

5

Taylor, Brice Odell, 1922-1923

Folder

6

Thomas, Katherine Garford, 1929-1948

Folder

7

Thorpe, Francis N., 1916-1934

Folder

8

Today's Woman, 1946

Folder

9-11

Ta-Th, 1922-1949

Box 75

Folder

1-3

Ti-Tz, 1922-1951

Box 76

Folder

1-3

U, 1922-1949

Folder

4

Untermeyer, Louis, 1925-1935

Folder

5

Viking Press, 1933-1949

Folder

6

Vinal, Harold, 1923-1927

Folder

7

Voices; a Journal of Verse, 1922-1930

Folder

8-10

V, 1919-1952

Box 77

Folder

1

Wall, Berhnhardt, 1921-1925

Folder

2

Waring, Tom R., 1921-1946

Folder

3-4

Warner Brothers Studios, 1934-1938

Folder

5

Wheeler, Elliot, 1938-1948

Box 78

Folder

1-3

Whitall, Ellen Stevens, 1922-1945

Folder

4-6

Whittall, Mr. W. Van R, 1921-1945

Folder

7-9

Wi-Wo, 1925-1949

Folder

10

Widdemer, Margaret, 1932-1945

Folder

11

Wilk, Jacob, 1935-1951

Folder

12

Williman, Joan B., 1922-1923

Box 79

Folder

1-2

Williams, Ronald J., 1929-1949

Folder

3

The Writer, 1934-1947

Folder

4

Wyeth, Andrew, 1943-1948

Folder

5

Wylie, Philip, 1938-1947

Folder

6-11

Wa-We, 1927-1951

Box 80

Folder

1-3

Whi-Who, 1934-1950

Folder

4-5

Wr-Wz, 1939-1946

Folder

6

Yaddo, 1926-1934

Folder

7

Yaddo 1930 Conference, 1929-1930

Folder

8

Yale Review, 1920-1929

Folder

9

Yale University, 1923-1949

Folder

10

Yale University Press, 1919-1949

Folder

11

Y, 1925-1949

Folder

12

Z, 1938-1948

Subseries 2. Fan Mail and Requests, 1916-1954

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains correspondence from fans to Hervey Allen. The subject matter of fan correspondence ranges from fact checking, corrections, suggestions, to autograph requests. It also includes solicitations for book plates, speeches, employment, and student research projects. Folders are arranged according to book title and person's last name.

Box 81

Folder

1-4

Action at Aquila: A-Z, 1937-1946

Folder

5-11

Anthony Adverse: A-C, 1933-1949

Box 82

Folder

1-10

Anthony Adverse: D-K, 1933-1949

Box 83

Folder

1-10

Anthony Adverse: L-R, 1933-1949

Box 84

Folder

1-7

Anthony Adverse: S-Z, 1933-1949

Folder

8

Announcements and Invitations, 1919-1940

Folder

9-10

Autograph Requests: A-B, 1921-1949

Box 85

Folder

1-6

Autograph Requests: C-M, 1921-1949

Box 86

Folder

1-4

Autograph Requests: N-Z, 1921-1949

Folder

5

Autograph Requests: Circular Letter Answer, 1938

Folder

6

Book Plate Requests, 1928-1948

Folder

7-10

The Disinherited: A-Z, 1943-1949

Box 87

Folder

1

Fan Mail: Circular Letter Answer

Folder

2

Fan Mail: General, 1925-1950

Folder

3-4

Fan Mail: Unidentified, 1916-1947

Folder

5-9

Governess/Tutor Inquiries, 1935

Box 88

Folder

1-3

Governess/Tutor Inquiries, 1935

Folder

4

Toward the Flame, 1926-1935

Folder

5-9

Speech Requests, 1933-1935

Box 89

Folder

1-5

Speech Requests, 1936-1949

Folder

6-8

Student Requests/Interest, 1923-1954

Subseries 3. Condolences, 1947-1951

Scope and Content Notes: Correspondence from individuals expressing their condolences to Ann Allen after Hervey Allen's passing in 1949.

Box 90

Folder

1-3

Academic, 1949-1950

Folder

4-6

Editorial, Literary, or Professional, 1947-1951

Folder

7-9

Personal: A-J, 1949-1950

Folder

10-11

Personal: K-Z, 1949-1950

Series VI. Literary Correspondence, 1916-1956

Scope and Content Notes: In this series exists correspondence that primarily functioned as a mode of communication for Allen's various literary projects, namely his research on Edgar Allan Poe; his affiliation with the Poetry Society of South Carolina and the Bread Loaf School of English; his voluminous correspondence with his main publishing companies - Farrar and Rinehart/Rinehart and Company; his rights management correspondence with multiple international publishers of his work; and his editorial responsibilities on the Rivers of America series. While some correspondence with individual figures located in the General Correspondence may arguably be of literary nature, the material found in this series is thematically concentrated on literary production, while correspondence in the General Correspondence series may include personal correspondence/subject matter.

Subseries 1. Edgar Allan Poe Material, 1916-1956

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries consists of correspondence relating to Allen's research and his two publications on Edgar Allan Poe. Allen's extensive research into the works and life of Poe positioned him as an authority on Poe subject matter. He received various requests on information about Poe, including rights and permission use of Allen's publications and other general, little known knowledge about Poe. Included is correspondence with various specialty interest groups including, "The Edgar Allan Poe Club," "The Edgar Allan Poe Shrine," "The Edgar Allan Poe Society," and the "Poe Cottage Committee of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences," among others. Affiliated materials on the publication of Israfel and Poe's Brother are included, in particular a contentious rights issue with one J.H. Whitty, who tried to "delay and thwart" the publication of Israfel by withdrawing permission to reproduce Poe materials owned by him. This section also features collected material such as pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and articles authored by other writers.

Box 91

Folder

1-12

General Correspondence, 1916-1933

Box 92

Folder

1-17

General Correspondence, 1934-1946

Box 93

Folder

1-10

General Correspondence, 1947-1956

Folder

11

Works by Edgar A. Poe

Folder

12-14

Works and Research Relating to Edgar A. Poe

Folder

15

Places and Monuments Relating to Edgar A. Poe

Folder

16

Relating to Israfel

Subseries 2. Poetry Society of South Carolina, 1921-1940

Scope and Content Notes: The Poetry Society of South Carolina, a still existent entity, was founded in 1920 by Hervey Allen, Dubose Heyward, and John Bennett. Included in this subseries is correspondence, newspaper clippings and general media, and documents affiliated with the founding and administration of the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Some documents worth highlighting are the establishment of The Blindman Prize, a contest prize named after Allen's poem which awards $250 to a winning poem. Also, correspondence with Amy Lowell and Allen's manuscript, "Elements of Poetry" given at a Poetry Society of South Carolina lecture.

Box 94

Folder

1

General Correspondence, [Undated]

Folder

2

General Correspondence, 1921-1924

Folder

3

General Correspondence, 1925-1940

Folder

4-5

The Blindman Prize, 1921-1925

Folder

6

Elements of Poetry Lecture, 1922

Subseries 3. Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1924-1948

Scope and Content Notes: Hervey Allen's participation with the Bread Loaf School of English started in 1925, six years after its foundation. John Farrar, Allen's publisher at Farrar & Rinehart, created of the Writers Conference in 1926. Together with Farrar, Allen was featured various times as a lecturer in the annual event along with other notable figures such as Robert Frost, Achmed Abdullah, and Louis Untermeyer. Included in this subseries is affiliated correspondence, documents, press, and notebook (of Allen's) pertaining to various years of the Writers Conference.

Box 94

Folder

6

General Correspondence, 1924-1929

Folder

7

General Correspondence, 1930-1931

Folder

8

General Correspondence, 1931-1933

Box 95

Folder

1

General Correspondence, 1934

Folder

2

General Correspondence, 1935

Folder

3

General Correspondence, 1936-1939

Folder

4

General Correspondence, 1940-1948

Box 96

Folder

1

Notebook, 1930

Subseries 4. Farrar & Rinehart/Rinehart & Company, 1924-1953

Scope and Content Notes: Hervey Allen’s relationships with his publishers extended beyond the literary and professional. Stanley M. Rinehart Jr. and his wife Fay, Fredrick R. Rinehart (Ted) and his wife Betty, John Farrar and his wife Margaret, were close personal friends of the Allens. Due to the voluminous fanfare and requests Allen received from the public, Farrar & Rinehart publishing company (later Rinehart & Company) acted as a correspondence liaison for Allen, managing his personal and literary finances, forwarding interesting solicitations to him, and corresponding on behalf of him. In 1943, after the death of Stephen Vincent Benét, Allen was appointed to the publishing company’s poetry series, Rivers of America (see Rivers of America subseries). In this subseries exists business and literary correspondence from Farrar & Rinehart as well as personal correspondence from individuals associated with the publishing company to the Allens regarding financial and personal matters. Notable correspondence includes correspondence between Farrar & Rinehart’s Art Editor, Faith Ball, to Hervey Allen about Andrew Wyeth’s artwork in Allen’s books. The first folder entitled "Summary of Contents" was made prior to the revised 2012 arrangement and it lists individual names and topics found in the correspondence.

Folder

2

Summary of Contents (previous arrangement)

Folder

3-6

Farrar & Rinehart, 1924-1930

Box 97

Folder

1-10

Farrar & Rinehart, 1931-1934

Box 98

Folder

1-12

Farrar & Rinehart, 1934-1935

Box 99

Folder

1-8

Farrar & Rinehart, 1936-1938

Box 100

Folder

1-9

Farrar & Rinehart, 1939-1942

Box 101

Folder

1-9

Farrar & Rinehart, 1943-1944

Box 102

Folder

1-3

Farrar & Rinehart, 1945

Folder

4-8

Rinehart & Company, 1946-1947

Box 103

Folder

1-7

Rinehart & Company, 1948-1953

Subseries 5. Of Particular Allen Works, 1924-1956

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains correspondence relating to foreign language edition licensing rights of Allen's works. Subject matter may include inquiries about foreign edition misprints and corrections. Correspondence about such subject matter may also be found in the Farrar & Rinehart/Rinehart & Company subseries.

Box 104

Folder

1

General/Multiple Permissions and Rights, 1933-1954

Section: Action at Aquila, 1932-1955

Folder

2

American Serial Edition, 1937

Folder

3-5

Australian Edition, 1932-1934

Folder

6

Corrections, 1938-1939

Folder

7

Danish Edition, 1937-1938

Folder

8

Dutch Edition, 1937-1938

Folder

9

English Edition, 1937-1938

Folder

10

Film, 1936-1938

Folder

11

Finnish Edition, 1937

Folder

12

French Edition, 1947-1951

Folder

13-15

General, 1936-1937

Box 105

Folder

1-4

General, 1938-1955

Box 106

Folder

1

German Edition, 1937-1949

Folder

2

Hungarian Edition, 1937-1939

Folder

3

Italian Edition, 1938-1955

Folder

4

Norwegian Edition, 1934-1938

Folder

5

Permissions (General), 1938-1940

Folder

6

Polish Edition, 1938

Folder

7

Portuguese Edition, 1947

Folder

8

Radio, 1938

Folder

9

Spanish Edition, 1948

Folder

10

Swedish Edition, 1937-1939

Folder

11

Syndicate, 1938-1939

Section: Anthony Adverse, 1930-1956

Folder

12

Corrections, 1933-1937

Folder

13

Czech Edition, 1933-1949

Folder

14

Danish Edition, 1933-1936

Folder

15-16

Dutch Edition, 1933-1953

Folder

17

Editions: 25 cent Edition, (Western Printing and Lithographing Co.), 1948-1950

Folder

18

Editions: 1946 Edition, 1945-1946

Folder

19

Editions: Campaign for $2 Editions, 1936

Folder

20

Editions: Education Edition, 1935

Folder

21

English Edition, 1946

Folder

22

Estonian Edition, 1936

Folder

23

Film, 1933-1935

Box 107

Folder

1-3

Film, 1936-1947

Folder

4

Finnish Edition, 1934-1936

Folder

5

French Edition, 1933-1949

Folder

6-12

General, 1930-1935

Box 108

Folder

1-5

General, 1936-1956

Folder

6-8

German Edition, 1933-1955

Folder

9

Hungarian Edition, 1933-1937

Folder

10

Illustrations, 1934

Folder

11

Israeli Edition, 1955

Folder

12

Italian Edition, 1933-1955

Folder

13

Japanese Edition, 1934-1950

Folder

14

Limited Editions Club, 1935-1939

Folder

15

Norwegian Edition, 1934-1936

Box 109

Folder

1-2

Permissions (General), 1934-1953

Folder

3

Polish Edition, 1940-1944

Folder

4

Portuguese Edition, 1940-1944

Folder

5

Radio, 1934-1950

Folder

6

Romanian Edition, 1938-1940

Folder

7

Sales, 1945

Folder

8

Second Serialization, 1937

Folder

9

Spanish Edition, 1933-1949

Folder

10

Swedish Edition, 1934-1936

Folder

11

Syndication, 1933-1936

Folder

12

Television, 1950-1954

Section: Bedford Village, 1943-1955

Folder

13-14

General, 1943-1955

Section: The Blindman, 1924-1951

Folder

15

General, 1924-1951

Section: Blood Lust, 1936-1941

Box 110

Folder

1

General, 1936-1941

Section: Carolina Chansons, 1932-1950

Folder

2

General, 1932-1950

Section: The City in the Dawn, 1949-1955

Folder

3-4

General, 1949-1955

Folder

5

German Edition, 1951-1953

Folder

6

Posthumous Publication, 1950-1951

Section: The Disinherited, 1941-1953

Box 111

Folder

1

Czech Edition, 1945-1948

Folder

2

Danish Edition, 1945-1946

Folder

3

Dutch Edition, 1943-1949

Folder

4

English Continental Edition, 1943-1945

Folder

5

English Edition, 1946-1949

Folder

6

Finnish Edition, 1946-1947

Folder

7

French Edition, 1944-1949

Folder

8-9

General, 1941-1953

Folder

10

German/Swiss Edition, 1943-1951

Folder

11

Italian Edition, 1945-1949

Folder

12

Latin American Edition, 1943-1946

Folder

13

Romanian Edition, 1946-1947

Folder

14

Spanish Edition, 1944-1949

Folder

15

Swedish Edition, 1943-1949

Section: Earth Moods, 1934-1953

Box 112

Folder

1

General, 1934-1953

Section: The Forest and the Fort, 1942-1956

Folder

2-4

General, 1942-1956

Folder

5

Norwegian Edition, 1944-1951

Section: New Legends, 1929-1953

Folder

6-7

General, 1929-1953

Section: Richfield Springs, 1935-1937

Folder

8

General, 1935-1937

Section: Sylvania, 1945

Folder

9

General, 1945

Folder

10-12

General, 1944-1952

Subseries 6. Rivers of America series, 1943-1949

Scope and Content Notes: The Rivers of America series began in 1937 under the editorial of Constance Lindsay Skinner at Farrar and Rinehart. Throughout its publication run, the series underwent three major publishing companies (Farrar and Rinehart, Rinehart and Co., and Holt, Rinehart and Winston), and various editors. Following the death of Skinner, who was found dead at her desk while editing the sixth volume, The Hudson, Carl Carmer, the same author who wrote The Hudson became a co-editor with Stephen Vincent Benét. After Benét's death in 1943, Allen stepped in as co-editor of the series until his death in 1949. The series published individual volumes written by literary authors, as opposed to historians, about individual rivers of the American terrain and their histories. In this subseries are correspondence between Allen and other members of the publishing series, correspondence about accepted or rejected manuscripts, and documents relating to the Rivers of America Radio Broadcast at WBEZ Chicago.

Section: Accepted and Contracted Authors, 1943-1949

Box 113

Folder

1

Alabama River, 1948

Folder

2

Ashley and Cooper Rivers (Lord Shaftesbury's Darling), 1943-1946

Folder

3

Blackstone River, 1945-1946

Folder

4

Cape Fear River, 1945-1948

Folder

5

Charges River, 1945-1948

Folder

6

Chattahoochee River, 1944-1949

Folder

7

Colorado River, 1943-1944

Folder

8

Columbia River, 1943-1948

Folder

9

Conestoga River, 1943-1949

Folder

10

Connecticut River, 1943-1947

Folder

11

Everglades River, 1943-1948

Folder

12

Fraser River, 1945-1949

Folder

13

General File, 1943-1949

Folder

14

Gila River, 1948

Folder

15

Gulf Stream, 1947-1949

Folder

16

Housatonic River, 1943-1946

Folder

17

Hudson River, 1949

Folder

18

James River, 1943-1944

Folder

19

Juniata River, 1948-1949

Folder

20

Kanawha River, 1943-1948

Box 114

Folder

1

Lehigh River, 1944-1946

Folder

2

Louisiana Rivers, 1943

Folder

3

Mackenzie River, 1946-1949

Folder

4

Merced River, 1945

Folder

5

Merrimac River, 1943-1949

Folder

6

Minnesota River, 1946

Folder

7

Missouri River, 1943-1946

Folder

8

Mohawk River, 1943-1948

Folder

9

Muskingum River, 1948

Folder

10

Niagara River, 1943-1947

Folder

11

Ohio River, 1947-1949

Folder

12

Ottawa River, 1943-1947

Folder

13

Platte and Sweetwater Rivers, 1947

Folder

14

Potomac River, 1943-1949

Folder

15

Powder River, 1943-1949

Folder

16

Rancocas River, 1943-1947

Folder

17

Red River, 1943-1948

Folder

18

Rio Grande River, 1943-1948

Folder

19

Rivers of the Alaskan Panhandle, 1945

Folder

20

Rivers of the Eastern Shore, 1943-1948

Folder

21

Salinas River, 1943-1945

Folder

22

Saskatchewan River, 1947-1949

Folder

23

Savannah River, 1943-1949

Folder

24

Schuylkill River, 1947-1948

Folder

25

Shenandoah River, 1943-1946

Box 115

Folder

1

St. Croix River, 1943-1945

Folder

2

St. John's River of New Brunswick, 1948

Folder

3

St. Mary's River, 1948-1949

Folder

4

Tennessee River, 1943-1948

Folder

5

Upper Mississippi River, 1943

Folder

6

White River, 1945

Folder

7

Winooski River, 1947-1949

Folder

8

Yazoo River, 1947-1948

Folder

9

Yukon River, 1943-1948

Section: Considered or Rejected Authors, 1943-1949

Folder

10

A, 1945

Folder

11

B, 1943-1949

Folder

12

C, 1944-1948

Folder

13

D, 1945-1949

Folder

14

E-F, 1944-1948

Folder

15

G, 1944-1948

Folder

16

H-J, 1943-1949

Folder

17

K-L, 1944-1949

Box 116

Folder

1

M, 1943-1949

Folder

2

N-O, 1943-1948

Folder

3

P-Q, 1945-1949

Folder

4

R, 1944-1948

Folder

5

S, 1944-1949

Folder

6

T-V, 1944-1949

Folder

7

W, 1943-1949

Folder

8

Y-Z, 1943-1945

Section: Interoffice Correspondence, 1943-1949

Folder

9-10

Interoffice Correspondence, 1943-1944

Box 117

Folder

1-6

Interoffice Correspondence, 1945-1949

Folder

7

Radio Broadcasting Programs, 1945

Series VII. Projects, 1932-1949

Scope and Content Notes: Beside a prolific literary career, Allen dedicated his life to numerous roles outside of writting including various academic, government, and even inventor occupations. Featured in this series are documents that demonstrate Allen's involvement with various academic institutions including the University of Miami (then Miami University), St. John's College, Cazenovia Junior College, Ransom School, and Washington and Jefferson College; his tenure as Regional Information Representative in the US War Manpower Commission at Atlanta, Georgia; and documentation of a machine he invented called the "Tangential Engine."

Subseries 1. Miami University (University of Miami), 1932-1949

Scope and Content Notes: Hervey Allen had a number of diverse roles at the University of Miami. He lent his name and support to the development of various literary programs, like the Winter Institute of Literature and the Hispanic-American Institute. Allen was also influential in the establishment of the then nascent University, serving as a member of its Board of Trustees, the Committee on Development, and other various administrative roles. Featured in this subseries is correspondence with other influential individuals at the University such as Dr. Bowman F. Ashe. Due to the overlapping nature of the material, some material has been filed under one individual's folder, though it may also involve other individuals who have assigned folders of their own.

Folder

8

Ashe, Dr. Bowman F., (President), 1940-1949

Folder

9

Board of Trustees, 1938-1949

Folder

10

Committee on Development, 1939

Folder

11

Dorean Tharp, Charles, (Dean, College of Liberal Arts), 1949-1950

Box 118

Folder

1

General Correspondence, Undated, 1938-1947

Folder

2

General Correspondence, 1948

Folder

3

General Correspondence, 1949

Folder

4

General Correspondence: Booklets and Pamphlets, 1948-1950

Folder

5

Harkins, William G., (Librarian), 1948-1949

Folder

6

Hispanic-American Institute, 1933-1949

Folder

7

Lowe Memorial, 1939-1941

Folder

8

Marine Laboratory: Correspondence with F.G. Walton Smith, 1946-1949

Folder

9

Marine Laboratory: Preliminary Sketches of Laboratory by Marion I. Manley, 1944

Folder

10

Marine Laboratory: Reports, 1945-1949

Box 119

Folder

1-2

Pan American Affairs, 1943-1945

Folder

3

Pan American Affairs, 1946-1949

Folder

4

Rasco, R.A., (Dean, School of Law), 1947-1949

Folder

5

Ross, Malcolm, (University Editor), 1947-1949

Folder

6-8

Winter Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1943-1944

Box 120

Folder

1-4

Winter Institute of Literature, 1932-1946

Subseries 2. St. John's College, 1938-1949

Scope and Content Notes: As a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors, Allen played a vital role in the administration of the College. He lent his name to the College in order to procure endowments and establish other fundraising groups such as founding the Friends of St. John's. He helped reconfigure their education program and promote St. John's achievements and programs by writing articles in the local newspaper and other publications such as the Atlantic Monthly. Included in this subseries is correspondence between the College and the Department of Navy, who wanted to expand the Naval Academy by purchasing part of St. John's campus. Due to the overlapping nature of the Committee of Development, Resource Committee, and Board of Visitors and Governors these materials are all filed under the latter's name.

Folder

5

Books and Pamphlets, 1939-1944

Folder

6

Books and Pamphlets, 1949

Folder

7

Board of Visitors and Governors, October 1938 - September 1939

Folder

8

Board of Visitors and Governors, October 1939 - December 1940

Folder

9

Board of Visitors and Governors, April 1941 - December 1946

Box 121

Folder

1

Board of Visitors and Governors, 1947

Folder

2

Board of Visitors and Governors, January - April 1948

Folder

3

Board of Visitors and Governors, May - December 1948

Folder

4

Board of Visitors and Governors, 1949

Folder

5

Education, Undated, 1939-1949

Folder

6

Friends of St. John's, 1948-1949

Box 122

Folder

1

General Correspondence, Undated, 1939-1949

Folder

2

The Great Teachers Return Seminar, 1948

Folder

3

Naval Academy Correspondence, 1940-1946

Folder

4

Publicity, Undated, 1940-1949

Subseries 3. Tangential Engine, 1942-1950

See Also: Related material can be found in Box 120, Series XII: Projects, Subseries 2: St. John’s College.

Scope and Content Notes: In 1942-1943, Allen invented a rotary internal combustion motor called the Tangential Engine. Included in this subseries are blueprints, correspondence, patent information, and sketches relating to Allen’s engine.

Box 123

Folder

1

Blueprints, 1942

Folder

2-5

Correspondence, 1942-1950

Folder

6

Patent Information (Work of Other People), 1934

Folder

7

Sketches

Subseries 4. US War Manpower Commission, 1943-1945

Scope and Content Notes: During World War II, Hervey Allen served as Regional Information Representative for the US War Manpower Commission. Due to domestic labor shortage during the war, President Roosevelt signed an executive order to establish the Commission whose primary charge was to draft policies that effectively managed and recruited labor for war and essential civilian industries. Allen was employed by the Commission for eight months but was forced to resign and become a non-paid consultant due to tax reasons. Several of Allen's close friends were also affiliated with the Commission including Philip S. Broughton and Frank Constangy. B.F. Ashe, President of the University of Miami, was the Regional Director of the Atlanta division of the Commission. Included in this subseries are correspondence and associated documents about the Commission.

See Also: B.F. Ashe, Box 117, Folder 8. Philip Broughton, Box 48, Folder 7-8.

Box 124

Folder

1

Correspondence with Frank Constangy, 1944-1948

Folder

2-4

General Correspondence, 1943-1945

Subseries 5. Other Academic Institutions, 1947-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains correspondence and material related to other academic institutions Hervey Allen was affiliated with as a member of the Board of Trustees.

Section: Cazenovia Junior College for Women

Folder

5

Invitations, Pamphlets, and Articles, 1947-1949

Folder

6

Board of Trustees, 1947-October 1948

Folder

7

Board of Trustees, December 1948-April 1949

Folder

8

Board of Trustees, May-November 1949

Folder

9

Ransom School (Adirondack-Florida School), 1949

Folder

10

Washington and Jefferson College, 1948-1949

Series VIII. Estates and Financial Matters, 1919-1952

Scope and Content Notes: This series includes material that pertain to Hervey Allen’s estate and financial matters. It includes correspondence and ephemera of the purchase and quotidian upkeep of his estates: Bonfield Manor, Felicity Hall, and The Glades, as well as correspondence that took place in Cazenovia, New York where the Allens lived with Ann Allen's parents' home for some time and where they purchased a summer home. Also included are bills and receipts, cancelled checks, insurance and tax documents.

Subseries 1. Financial Matters, 1919-1950

Scope and Content Notes: Material in this subseries is arranged on a folder-level according to year.

Box 125

Folder

1

Bank of Manhattan, 1941-1942

Folder

2

Coconut Grove Exchange Bank, 1941

Folder

3

Farmers Merchant Bank, 1939-1941

Folder

4-5

General Ledger, 1933-1934

Box 126

Folder

1-4

Bills and Receipts, 1919-1933

Box 127

Folder

1-5

Bills and Receipts, 1934

Box 128

Folder

1-8

Bills and Receipts, 1935

Box 129

Folder

1-7

Bills and Receipts, 1935

Box 130

Folder

1-4

Bills and Receipts, 1936

Box 131

Folder

1-8

Bills and Receipts, 1936

Box 132

Folder

1-5

Bills and Receipts, 1937

Box 133

Folder

1-5

Bills and Receipts, 1938-1939

Box 134

Folder

1-7

Bills and Receipts, 1939-1940

Box 135

Folder

1-7

Bills and Receipts, 1940-1941

Box 136

Folder

1-4

Bills and Receipts, 1942-1943

Box 137

Folder

1-6

Bills and Receipts, 1944-1946

Box 138

Folder

1-7

Bills and Receipts, 1946-1949

Box 139

Folder

1-3

Bills and Receipts, 1949-1950

Folder

4-6

Business Letters, 1933-1935

Box 140

Folder

1-3

Checks, 1922-1929

Box 141

Folder

1-5

Checks, 1930-1947

Box 142

Folder

1-10

Insurance Correspondence, 1933-1940

Box 143

Folder

1-7

Insurance Correspondence, 1940-1947

Box 144

Folder

1-2

Insurance Correspondence, 1948-1949

Folder

3-5

Insurance Policies and Forms, 1934-1941

Folder

6-7

Ledgers and Notebooks, 1919-1934

Box 145

Folder

1

Royalties, 1924-1939

Folder

2

Social Security, 1944

Folder

3-13

Tax Forms, 1938-1948

Subseries 2. Homes, 1926-1950

Scope and Content Notes: Includes correspondence between Allen and estate staff on matters of upkeep. Also included is information on the Bonfield fire.

Box 146

Folder

1-4

Account Book, Bookkeeping, Guestbook, and Land Description, 1926-1936

Box 147

Folder

1-11

Bonfield Manor, 1926-1934

Box 148

Folder

1-12

Bonfield Manor, 1934-1936

Box 149

Folder

1-7

Bonfield Manor, 1937-1949

Folder

8-9

Cazenovia, 1933-1935

Box 150

Folder

1-2

Cazenovia, 1936-1949

Folder

3-5

Felicity Hall, 1927-1936

Folder

6-14

The Glades, 1926-1934

Box 151

Folder

1-9

The Glades, 1934-1935

Box 152

Folder

1-8

The Glades, 1935-1938

Box 153

Folder

1-10

The Glades, 1938-1940

Box 154

Folder

1-5

The Glades, 1940-1941

Box 155

Folder

1-11

The Glades, 1942-1950

Subseries Posthumous Estate Matters, 1949-1952

Series IX. Family Papers, 1831-1965

Scope and Content Notes: The Family Papers series includes papers, correspondence, financial documents, genealogical information, photographs, scrapbooks, journals, and ephemeral material associated with the Allens, the Gills, and the Myers (maternal families). The Allen family lineage can be traced back to the immigrating generation of Edward Allen (1794-1874) and Millicent (Amelia) Bindley Allen (1797-1890) who immigrated from England. The series features a variety of personal family mementos from multi-generational members of the Allen family. Among the highlights of the series are scrapbooks and journals of Hervey Allen’s great uncle, William Hervey Allen, a steamboat captain who survived a horrific accident on board the New Hampshire during which Allen’s younger brother, George T. Allen, was killed. The series also features a separate subseries for the personal papers of Hervey Allen’s grandfather, Colonel Edward Jay Allen. Hervey Allen’s own photographs, scrapbooks, journals, and ephemera are included in this series. Since the majority of all photographs feature family members, all photographs are featured in this series.

See Also: Oversized materials are located in Box 193. Family obituaries and other newspaper articles (collected or written by family members) can be found in Box 194.

Subseries 1. Edward Jay Allen, 1848-1918

Scope and Content Notes: Edward Jay Allen, Hervey Allen's paternal grandfather, was a Civil War colonel whose travels on the Oregon Trail made him a well-known and highly honored early pioneer of the Pacific Northwest territory. In 1852 at the age 22, he traveled west to Puget Sound via the Oregon Trail, documenting his experiences via correspondence and later recounting them in his manuscript, "Letters from the Oregon Trail." He settled in Olympia and remained in the Pacific Northwest for three years, surveying the land and acquainting himself with the native culture and language, the Chinook Jargon. In 1859, he became one of the signers of the Monticello Memorial, a resolution to Congress in favor of splitting the Oregon and Washington Territories. He returned east in 1855, and continued a successful career as an civil engineer, building roads, bridges, and railroads. He married Elizabeth Wilson Robinson on July 16th, 1857 in Pittsburgh. They had five children: William Hervey (Hervey Allen's father), Edna A. Rickmers, May L., Edward H., and Harold Allen. At the onset of the Civil War, Allen was working as a railroad contractor for the Virginia Central Railroad. During Virginia's secession from the Union, Allen narrowly escaped Confederate capture as he attempted to smuggle back to Pittsburgh. He volunteered on the Union side for some time in Washington DC and Virginia, repairing roads and bridges destroyed by the Confederates before returning to Pittsburgh and recruiting the 155th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry in 1862. For three years, he headed the Infantry at the rank of Colonel. The Infantry fought at various battles including the Battle of Antietam and Fredericksburg. After the war, Colonel Allen dedicated himself to local work in Pittsburgh. He worked for the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Co. as a secretary and also became active in real estate. Allen became a larger than life figure, often writing about his life stories in local papers. He became an early supporter and patron of John W. Alexander, adopting the orphaned Alexander while he worked at the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Co. as a young man. Allen brought Alexander to the Allen home at "Edgehill" and painted various members of the Allen family, including Colonel Allen (see [Edward Jay Allen, Three-Quarter-Length Portrait, Standing, Face Right]). Colonel Allen died at the age of 85, on December 28, 1915; Mrs. Allen, his widow, died just five days after him. Featured in this subseries are Allen's typescript manuscript (re-told, original lost) of "The Oregon Trail," personal correspondence, Civil War memorabilia, journals, obituaries, notebooks, photographs, will and last testament, and other creative works, including his poem, "The Veteran."

See Also: Oversized Material, Family, Box 193; Newspapers, Box 194. Oversized Material, Artwork Collection, Artwork on Display, [Edward Jay Allen, Three-Quarter-Length Portrait, Standing, Face Right].

Section: Oregon Trail

Box 156

Folder

3

Description on the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Steilacoom, by George H. Himes [1844-1859]

In early 1852, the introduction of a bill to construct a military road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Steilacoom reached Congress by way of Joseph Lane, delegate to Congress from the Oregon Territory. The bill was met with opposition from Congress due to the lack of a topographical survey and approximate estimate cost. By December of that year, House Bill No. 187 passed, allotting $20,000 to the construction of this road. George H. Himes (1844-1940), historian at the Oregon Historical Society, wrote this document as he traced the construction of this road through newspaper articles of the The Columbian. He writes that on May 28, 1853 Edward Jay Allen joined a committee to “view out a route and report therson as follows”; Allen headed east to begin construction on the side of Steilacoom (page 2). The road was hoped to be constructed by the end of 1853 "to accommodate incoming immigrants” (page 2). This document also details some of the first settlements made from crossing the Columbia river to Puget Sound pre-1853.

Box 159

Folder

1

Original Journal from the Oregon Trail, 1852 (

This is Edward Jay Allen's journal as he traversed the Oregon Trail. The journal is not written in chronological order. A flag has been set at the beginning of the journal, in the middle of the journal, on the June 2nd entry. The journal continues through and back the beginning of the book, and finally back to the adjacent page of the June 2nd entry, dated at October 4th. Writing includes calculations, lists of itemized expenses, and individuals' names on wagon trains.

Box 156

Folder

1

Letters From the Oregon Trail: Carbon Copy, Part I (2 copies), [1852-1855]; 1908; 1913

Edward Jay Allen kept in extensive correspondence with his loved ones in Pittsburgh while on the Oregon Trail. After his return from the Northwest Territories, his letters were amalgamated into a narrative entitled, "Letters from the Oregon Trail." In this narrative, Allen details his quotidian adventures on the trail, starting at Council Bluffs (then Kanesville, Iowa): "[w]e knew but little of the country we should traverse, it was terra incognita. All the region that lay to the westward was marked on the map as the "Great American Desert" (page 3). Throughout his accounts, Allen encounters other pioneers venturing West, Native Americans, and details the strenuous labor and setbacks that he endured during his trip. The narrative is re-told and typewritten in 1913, with a preface from the author. External sources argue that the typewritten manuscript was actually written around 1908 (Larsen and Johnson). Folder 1 contains pages 1-112 and folder 2 contains pages 200-358. Please note: pages 113-199 are missing.

Folder

2

Letters From the Oregon Trail: Carbon Copy, Part 2, [1852-1855]; 1908; 1913

Folder

4

Chinook Jargon:Carbon Copy and Photocopy [1852-1855]

Section: Civil War

Box 156

Folder

5

Civil War, Prose,

Box 157

Folder

8

The Veteran and Other Creative Endeavors, 1853-1904

Box 157

Folder

1

Civil War Memorabilia, 1861-1886

Box 160

Folder

2

Uniform Regalia, 1867

Box 158

Folder

4

Photographs and memorabilia of the 155th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War, 1908

Section: Personal

Box 159

Folder

3

Scrapbook Album, 1848-1849

Box 158

Folder

5

Journal, 1849-1850

A 1849-1850 journal Edward Jay Allen kept as a young man in the years right before his departure to the Northwest.

Box 159

Folder

4

Small Notebook, 1850-1914

Box 158

Folder

6

Journal, 1851

A 1851 journal Edward Jay Allen kept as a young man in the year right before his departure to the Northwest.

Box 158

Folder

8

Journal, Christmas present from William, 1852

Box 159

Folder

5

Scrapbook Album, 1855

Box 158

Folder

1-3

Photographs and Portraits, 1855-1899

Box 159

Folder

2

Mountain Department Map of Virginia, 1859

Box 157

Folder

10

Pamphlets, 1863-1900

Box 157

Folder

2-7

Correspondence, 1877-1914

Box 158

Folder

7

Framed Letter From Theodore Roosevelt, 1898

Framed letter addressed to Edward Jay Allen from then Assistant Secratary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, dated April 24, 1898.

Box 156

Folder

6

Will and Last Testament, 1914; 1919

Box 157

Folder

11

Obituaries and Tributes, 1915-1918

Box 159

Folder

6

Portrait of John L. Burns

Box 160

Folder

3

Newspaper Clippings Saved by Edward Jay Allen About the Civil War, Northwest History, and Family

Box 157

Folder

9

Personal Ephemera

Box 159

Folder

7

Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

Box 160

Folder

1

Woodcut Portrait Engraving

Subseries 2. Immediate Family Correspondence, 1926-1954

Scope and Content Notes: Correspondence between Hervey Allen and his wife and children.

Box 161

Folder

1-12

Ann Andrews Allen, 1926-1930

Box 162

Folder

1-12

Ann Andrews Allen, 1931-1939

Box 163

Folder

1-13

Ann Andrews Allen, 1940-1949

Folder

14-16

Marcia Allen (daughter), 1931-1954

Box 164

Folder

1-3

Mary Ann Allen (daughter), 1935-1953

Folder

4-12

Richard Francis Allen (son), 1942-1949

Subseries 3. Extended Family Correspondence, 1838-1950

Scope and Content Notes: Correspondence between Hervey Allen and his extended family. Some correspondence includes familial matters with non-relatives.

Box 165

Folder

1

Andrews, Charles (father-in-law), 1927-1942

Folder

2-4

Andrews, Mrs. Charles (mother-in-law), 1927-1949

Folder

5

Andrews, Charles (brother-in-law), 1928-1949

Folder

6

Andrews, Paul Shipman, 1934-1949

Folder

7

Gill, Mrs. Ida B. (cousin), 1923-1949

Folder

8

Harrowing, Mamie (cousin), 1933-1939

Folder

9

Moore, Marie (cousin), 1921-1949

Folder

10

Myers, Mrs. Helen M. (maternal grandmother)

Folder

11

Myers, Joseph S. (cousin), 1934-1949

Folder

12

Smith, Percy (family maid), 1944

Box 166

Folder

1

Elizabeth Robinson Allen (Mrs. Edward Jay Allen, grandmother), 1838-1914

Folder

2-8

William H. Allen (father), 1870-1926

Folder

9-10

Helen Myers Allen (mother), 1886-1918

Folder

11

Ethel Allen (2nd wife of father), 1925-1926

Folder

12-15

Edna Allen Rickmers (aunt), 1918-1929

Box 167

Folder

1-5

Edna Allen Rickmers (aunt), 1931-1949

Folder

6

Edward Halkett Allen, Jr. (uncle), 1924-1926

Folder

7-15

Harold Allen (uncle), 1898-1929

Box 168

Folder

1-8

Harold Allen (uncle), 1926-1939

Folder

9-12

May L. Allen (aunt), 1916-1923

Box 169

Folder

1-11

May L. Allen (aunt), 1924-1938

Box 170

Folder

1-3

May L. Allen (aunt), 1939-1945

Folder

4-8

Edward Allen (brother), 1920-1941

Folder

9-15

Elizabeth Allen (sister), 1918-1949

Box 171

Folder

1-4

Helen Allen (sister), 1921-1949

Folder

5-10

Winthrop Allen (brother), 1918-1937

Box 172

Folder

1-9

Winthrop Allen (brother), 1938-1950

Folder

10

Edward H. Allen (cousin), 1926-1949

Folder

11

Edward J. Allen III (nephew), 1944

Folder

12

Sylvia Allen (niece), 1944-1947

Folder

13-14

General Family Correspondence, 1901-1949

Folder

15

Family Matters, 1925-1934

Subseries 4. Genealogy, Financial, and Official Documents, 1831-1930

Scope and Content Notes: Included in this subseries are genealogical and official documents of Hervey Allen's families. In this subseries is the oldest document in the papers, a marriage certificate between John Gill and Anna Caldwell dated at February 24, 1831. Also included are the Golden Wedding invitations and mementos of both Hervey Allen's great-grandparents, Edward Allen Sr. and Amelia Bindley Allen in 1866, and his grandparents, Colonel Edward Jay Allen and Elizabeth Robinson Allen in 1907. Other documents include estate and financial documents.

Box 173

Folder

1

Certificate of Marriage of John Gill and Anna Caldwell, 1831

Folder

2

Estate of Helen M. Allen Documents, 1890-1922

Folder

3

Estate of Helen M. Allen Trustee Documents, 1926-1930

Folder

4

Genealogy

Folder

5-6

General Financial Documents, 1897-1925

Folder

7

Golden Wedding: Edward Allen and Millicent (Amelia Bindley) Allen (great-grandparents), 1866

Folder

8

Golden Wedding: Edward Jay Allen and Elizabeth Robinson Allen and General Messages (grandparents), 1907; 1899-1915

Folder

9

Insurance, 1896-1918

Folder

10

Tax Forms, 1891-1918

Folder

11

Wills, Testaments, and Memoirs

Subseries 5. Creative Works, 1855-1965

Scope and Content Notes: Various members of the Allen family were also writers, including his grandfather who wrote the Civil War inspired poem, "The Veteran." His father, William Hervey Allen Sr., wrote amateur poetry as well. Colonel Edward Jay Allen's works can all be found in his own subseries, Boxes 156-160. In this subseries are numerous creative endeavors written by other members of the Allen family including his wife Ann Andrews Allen, and his great-uncle, William Hervey Allen.

Section: Ann Allen

Folder

12

Certain Letters of Hervey Allen with Notes by Ann Andrews Allen ’28, in Vassar Alumnae Magazine, December 1965

Folder

13

Sarah Simon: Character Atlantean, in The Bermudian, March 1956

Section: William Hervey Allen (father)

Folder

14

Australia

Folder

15

[ To Miss Anna Garrison Bennett], 1887

Section: William Hervey Allen (uncle)

Folder

16

The Last Trip, in The Knickerbocker, December 1855

Subseries 6. Photographs, 1857-1949

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries contains the bulk of all photographs in the papers. When possible, folders are listed by identified individuals and date. If there is no discernable name and/or date associated, photographs were grouped as unidentified individuals, groups, or places. Other materials found here are photographic negatives, photographic reproductions, and associated materials found with photographs. Please note: folders are fastened with plastic clips, please use precaution upon perusal. Place folders flat on a stable surface upon removal of clips.

See Also: Oversized photographs of Hervey Allen and the Allen family exist in Boxes 189-194.

Section: Individuals

Box 174

Folder

1

Amelia Bindley (Mrs. Edward Allen, great grandmother)

Folder

2

Ann Allen (wife)

Folder

3

Annette Allen (niece), 1921

Folder

4

Bishop Carleton Hunt (brother-in-law)

Folder

5

Doris Appel (secretary)

Folder

6

Edna Allen Rickmers (aunt)

Folder

7

Edward Allen (paternal great grandfather)

Folder

8

Edward Jay Allen (paternal grandfather)

Folder

9

Edward Allen (uncle)

Folder

10

Edward Jay Allen III (brother), 1911-1913

Folder

11

Elizabeth Allen (sister)

Folder

12

Elizabeth R. Allen (paternal grandmother)

Folder

13

Friends: DuBose Heyward

File-cabinet

14

Friends: General

Folder

15

Friends: Robert Frost, 1947

Folder

16

Gill Family, 1865

Folder

17

Helen Allen (sister-in-law)

Box 175

Folder

1-3

Helen Eby Myers Allen (mother), 1865-1918

Folder

4

Helen Mar Allen (sister)

Folder

5

Helen Mar Myers Gill (maternal grandmother), 1857-1900

Folder

6

Hervey Allen, 1889-1895

Folder

7-8

Hervey Allen, 1896-1905

Folder

9

Hervey Allen, 1909-1918

Photographs of Hervey Allen at the Naval Academy.

Box 176

Folder

1

Hervey Allen, 1920-1930

Folder

2

Hervey Allen, 1931-1939

Folder

3

Hervey Allen, 1940-1949

Folder

4

Hervey Allen Portraits: Headshots, ca. 1930s

Folder

5

Hervey Allen Portraits: Artwork (in likeness of), 1925-1942

Folder

6

Hervey Allen Publicity

Folder

7

Hervey and Ann Allen

Folder

8

Jacob Myers, Mr. and Mrs. (maternal great grandparents)

Folder

9

John Gill (maternal great grandfather)

Folder

10

John Gill, Mrs. (maternal great grandmother)

Folder

11

Mable Allen (Mrs. Harold Allen)

Folder

12

Mary Ann Allen (daughter)

Folder

13

May L. Allen (aunt), 1901-1905

Folder

14

Rebecca Turner (great aunt)

Folder

15

Richard Francis Allen (son)

Folder

16

Sylvia Allen (niece)

Box 177

Folder

1-2

Unidentified Individuals

Folder

3

Uriah Myers (maternal grandfather)

Folder

4

William H. Allen (father), 1860-1911

Folder

5

William H. Allen (great uncle)

Folder

6

Winthrop Allen (brother)

Section: Groups

Folder

7

Allen Children

Folder

8

Allen Family, 1897-1905

Folder

9

Allen Family, 1949

Folder

10

Friends

Folder

11

Unidentified

Section: Places and Other Material,

Box 178

Folder

1

Charleston, South Carolina, 1924-1938

Folder

2

Edgehill Home, 1899-1900

These are photographs of the home Colonel Edward Jay Allen kept on Braddock Road, Pittsburgh. According to inscriptions on the back of these photographs, the home was built at about 1879. The Allens lived here until 1900 when it was purchased by a M. Lovejoy who demolished the home soon after.

Folder

3

Estates and Residences

Folder

4

Johnny Appleseed's Grave

Folder

5

Landscapes and General Travel

Folder

6

Mexican Border, Ysleta, 1916-1917

Folder

7

Negatives

Folder

8

Other Material Found with Photographs

Folder

9

Reproductions and Photographs of Figurines

Subseries 7. Journals and Scrapbooks, 1837-1934

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes personal journals and scrapbooks composed by various members of the Allen family including George T. Allen, great-uncle of Hervey Allen. At the age of 20, George was killed on May 1, 1849 on board The New Hampshire, a steamboat captained by his older brother, William Hervey Allen. First account portrayal of the accident is evident in William's journals. William Hervey, who was deeply affected by the accident, took a great deal of responsibility and sorrow because of it. Mention of the accident is also evident in Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters of the Western Waters, 1856 (in the Hervey Allen personal library collection). Also included here is the Colonel Edward Jay Allen and Elizabeth R. Allen's Golden Wedding Scrapbook.

Box 181

Folder

3

Brown Scrapbook, 1857-1880

Box 179

Folder

1

Brown Scrapbook, 1874-1889

Section: Edward S. White

Folder

2

Notebook, 1934

Section: Elizabeth R. Allen (paternal grandmother)

Folder

3

Photo Album, (1857-1882)

Section: George T. Allen (great uncle)

Folder

4

Diary, 1845

Folder

4

Diary, 1846

Box 180

Folder

1

Scrapbook, 1847

Folder

2

Golden Wedding: Edward Jay Allen and Elizabeth Allen, 1866

Section: Helen Myers (maternal grandmother)

Folder

3

Diary, 1851

Folder

4

Diary, 1879

Section: Hervey Allen

Folder

5

Letters from William Scrapbook, 1922-1930

Folder

6

Diary, 1924

Section: John Young

Box 181

Folder

1

The Gossip: According to John, 1925-1927

Section: William Hervey Allen (father)

Folder

4

Diary, 1877-1879

Folder

4

Yearbook, 1921

Folder

4

Date Book, 1922

Folder

4

Date Book, 1923

Section: William Hervey Allen (great uncle)

Box 182

Folder

1

Book of Fift, Notebook, 1837-1897

Folder

2

Notebook, 1840-1841

Folder

3

Diary, 1842

Folder

4

Scrapbook, 1844

Box 183

Folder

1

The New Hampshire Steamer Album, 1845-1857

Folder

2

Diary, 1845

Box 181

Folder

2

Scrapbook, 1847-1853

Folder

3

Review of Books Perused By..., 1847-1851

Folder

4

Quotations Book, 1847

Folder

5

Scrapbook, 1849-1963

Box 184

Folder

1

Bible, 1850-1852

Folder

2

Bible Given to Edward Jay Allen, 1851

Folder

3

Diary, 1851

Folder

4

Diary (Red Bound), 1854

Subseries 8. Ephemera, 1865-1949

Scope and Content Notes: Mementos, personal items, postcards, and newspaper clippings gathered by the Allen family including a sermon pamphlet from the Presbyterian Church given just days after the assassination of President Lincoln.

Box 185

Folder

1

A Gift for My Mother, Helen's Handiwork in Harrisburg, 1873

Folder

2

A Letter in the Collection of Benjamin Franklin (reproduction)

Folder

3

Calvary Church of Pittsburgh, 1924

Folder

4

General Family Papers

Folder

5-6

Hervey Allen Personal Items

Folder

7

Jefferson Davies for President

Folder

8

Newspaper Clippings, Assassination of President Lincoln and President McKinley, 1865-1901

Folder

9

The Philadelphia Directory (reproduction), [1791]

Folder

10-16

Postcards

Folder

17

Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg Program, 1865

Sermon about Lincoln's assassination.

Folder

18

Shadyside Literary Society Entertainment, 1876

Folder

19

Souvenir from the Musee Historique Candadien - a Wax Museum

Folder

20

Weekly Memo, 1949

Series X. Oversized Material, 1856-1953

Scope and Content Notes: This series is dedicated to housing oversized or three-dimensional materials including artwork, galleys, newspapers, and familial ephemera. Some materials in this series are on permanent display, please see Special Collections staff for more information.

Subseries 1. Artwork Collection, ca. 1880-1933

Scope and Content Notes: Featured here are various art works including pieces by John White Alexander, who lived with the Allen family as a young man. While working as a telegraph boy, the orphaned Alexander was taken under Edward Jay Allen's tutelage. Allen provided financial support and encouragement to the young Alexander, allowing him an artist studio in his home at "Edgehill." A photograph of Alexander as a young man and the rest of the Allen family posing outside of "Edgehill" exists in the Family Oversized, Box 193. Other art works include prints, reproductions, and oversized Anthony Adverse posters. Some of these materials are on permanent display, please see Special Collections staff for access to these materials.

Section: Artwork on Display

Frame

1

[ Anthony Adverse Film Poster]

Frame

2

[Portrait of Edward Allen (great-grandfather)]

Frame

3

[Portrait of Mrs. Edward Allen, Millicent (Amelia Bindley) Allen (great-grandmother)]

Section: John Alexander,

Frame

4

[Edward Jay Allen, Three-Quarter-Length Portrait, Standing, Face Right], 1899

Box 186

Folder

1

[Lobster Painted on Wood, Xmas], 1880

Folder

2

[Proof of Drawing of Robert L. Stevenson at Bournemouth, Presented to Hervey Allen by Mrs. John Alexander], 1886

Folder

3

Clippings and Correspondence To John Alexander, 1915-1933

Section: John Bennett

Folder

4

House of The Doctor of the Dead, Charleston, S.C.

Section: Prints and Other Art, 1921

Folder

5

[Christ Icon]

Folder

6

Downtown, The El / Lower Manhattan by John Marin, 1921

Separated Material:

Item is on shelf next to Box 186.

Folder

7

[Reproduction of Portrait of Woman Standing] by John Alexander

Separated Material:

Item is on shelf next to Box 186.

Folder

8

[Reproduction of Woman with a Ring] by John Alexander

Separated Material:

Item is on shelf next to Box 186.

Map-case

1

Diorama - Possibly of Anthony Adverse

Separated Material:

On top of Map-Case 1.

Subseries 2. Galleys, 1921-1950

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries includes galley proofs of Allen's works. Each proof is described on an item-level by title.

Box

187

Box 1

Action at Aquila: Complete Proofs (enclosed), 1938

Action at Aquila: Proofs (2 copies), 1938

Action at Aquila: Frontmatter and Backmatter (2 copies)

Anthony Adverse: Odd-sized proofs, including Book 5 title page and pages 411, 430, 1173, 397, and 469

Anthony Adverse: Vol. 1-3 (2 versions of Book 9), 1932

Bedford Village: Proofs (3 copies), 1944

Carolina Chansons: Complete Proofs, 1922

Carolina Chansons: Loose Pages (folder), 1950

City in the Dawn: Complete Proofs, 1950

City in the Dawn: Sample Printed Sheets (folder), 1950

Box

188

Box 2

The Disinherited: Vol. 1, Albine's Saga (3 copies), 1943

Subseries 3. Hervey Allen General Material, 1906-1948

Scope and Content Notes: This subseries features oversized materials such as awards and diplomas, blueprints, photographs, literary works and promotional materials regarding Hervey Allen. Hervey Allen's military coat and a honorary flag are featured in the Military Ephemera box.

Box

189

Awards and Diplomas, 1906-1948

Box

190

Military Ephemera

Box

191

Works - Manuscripts and Publications, 1919-1949

Box

192

Works - Promotional Posters; Blueprints to his Homes, 1933-1948

Subseries 4. Family, 1856-1948

Scope and Content Notes: In this subseries are oversized materials belonging to the Allen family including personal items, ledgers, photographs, obtituaries, and manuscripts. Some highlights include a handwritten poem by Colonel Edward Jay Allen and an oversized photograph of the Allen family pictured with a young John White Alexander at "Edgehill" dated in 1876 (note: photograph is in two pieces).

Item

1

Portrait of Allen Family with John W. Alexander at Edgehill, 1876

Series 5. Newspapers, 1876-1953

Scope and Content Notes: Oversized newspapers relating to Hervey Allen or his family members.