ContentsContainer List Diaries, Date Books, and Biographical Material, 1933-1954 |
Frederick Lewis Allen PapersA Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of CongressPrepared by Roland A. Lambert, and others Revised and expanded by Joseph K. Brooks2008
Biographical Note
Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteThe papers of Frederick Lewis Allen span the years 1890-1954, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1933-1954. The papers are organized in five series: Diaries, Date Books, and Biographical Material; General Correspondence; Subject File; Literary File; and an Addition. The Diaries, Date Books, and Biographical Material series covers the years 1933-1954 and includes diaries kept by Allen during visits to London in 1943 and to San Francisco in 1945. The bulk of the General Correspondence focuses on the period 1945-1954 and includes letters written on a weekly basis by Allen to his sister, Hildegarde Allen. Correspondence relating to a particular literary work is kept with other papers related to that work in the Literary File. Prominent correspondents include James Bryant Conant, Vera Micheles Dean, Bernard Augustine DeVoto, Gilbert Highet, Walter Lippmann, Laurence McKinney, Milo Perkins, George Pfeiffer, DeWitt Wallace, and W. S. Zuill. Included in the Subject File is material related to Allen's term as a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, 1942-1948; his work with the Foreign Policy Association; and his speech to the National Publishers' Association in 1947 on the "closed mind" of journalists regarding American industry. The Literary File contains manuscripts and notes related to Allen's writings, including popular social histories of the United States such as Only Yesterday and The Big Change, March of Time movie scripts about the 1920s, biographies, magazine articles, speeches, and other short works. The Addition, consisting of material added to the papers in 1978, 1983, and 1996, supplements the original collection. A travel journal documenting Allen's trip to Great Britain in 1953 was added in 1996. Return to the Table of Contents Selected Search TermsPeople
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Return to the Table of Contents Arrangement of the PapersThis collection is arranged in five series:
Return to the Table of Contents Container ListDiaries, Date Books, and Biographical Material, 1933-1954Pocket diaries, travel journals, and biographical sketches. Arranged alphabetically by type of material. Biographical file, circa 1942-1954DiariesEngland, 1943San Francisco, Calif., 1945Pocket diaries, 1933-1954 (22 vols.)General Correspondence, 1913-1954Letters sent and received. Arranged chronologically. 1913-19331934-1941 (9 folders)1942-1947 (7 folders)1948-1950 (6 folders)1951-1952 (5 folders)1953-1954, undated (5 folders)Subject File, 1946-1952Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and topical files. Arranged alphabetically by topic. Foreign Policy Association (2 folders)Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (3 folders)Literary File, 1930-1953Drafts of books, magazine articles, speeches, scripts, and miscellaneous works. Arranged by type of material or work and therein by title or topic. Articles"Bermuda Base""Drafting This Army"Life articles (3 folders)Miscellaneous short worksPublished articles by Allen (2 folders)Review of Whitaker Chambers's WitnessWoman's Home Companion articlesBooksThe American ProcessionThe Big Change (1 folder)(7 folders)The Great Pierpont Morgan (4 folders)(3 folders)(3 folders)I Remember Distinctly (2 folders)Lords of Creation (2 folders)MetropolisOnly Yesterday (3 folders)(2 folders)Since Yesterday (2 folders)(3 folders)(5 folders)(5 folders)(5 folders)(5 folders)(2 folders)Unpublished"The American Tradition"Roosevelt, Franklin D., notes and other material for an uncompleted book (2 folders)Documentary films and radio and television programs"Golden Twenties," documentary film (2 folders)Ford television programGeneral plans for "Cowboys" radio programMemorandum re possible subjects for a television seriesRadio script of interview with Allen re Harper's Magazine's one hundred years of publicationHarper's Magazine fileMiscellanySpeeches and conferences"Closed Mind," correspondence re speech on journalism and industry"Economic Security: A Look Back And A Look Ahead," Economic Security for Americans, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.Miscellany (3 folders)Addition, 1890-1954Journals, correspondence, writings, notes, printed matter, and clippings. Arranged alphabetically by type of material. JournalsJournal about Allen as a baby by his father, Frederick B. Allen, 1890-1893Travel journalsTrip to Great Britain, 1953"Thomas Jefferson Book: Notes on How To Be More Like Thomas Jefferson," kept by Allen and Agnes Rogers Allen during trip from Scarsdale, N.Y., to Chapel Hill, N.C., 1936General correspondence1892-1908 (3 folders)1910-1935 (4 folders)1936-1954, undated (2 folders)WritingsBooksThe Big Change draftsChapters 1-5 (2 folders)Chapters 6-18 (4 folders)Foreword, notes, research materialShort works and notesChronology of the 1930s and notes used for Since Yesterday"Last Time and This Time: Postwar Eras I and II""President Ell""Three Years of It: America at War, 1941-1944""The State of the States""The Transformation of Suburbia""The Suburban Crisis""Who's Getting the Money?"MiscellanyBook contractsPrinted matterClippingsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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