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Elisha Hunt Allen PapersA Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of CongressPrepared by Manuscript Division Staff2010
Biographical Note
Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteThe papers of Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) span the years 1849-1934, with the bulk of the material dating from 1867 to 1882. The papers consist of correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, awards and diplomas, invitations, passports, photographs, statistical tables, printed matter, and miscellaneous items and are organized into the following series: Family Correspondence, General Correspondence, Hawaiian Legation Correspondence, Subject File, Miscellany, and Oversize. The Family Correspondence contains letters from Allen to his second wife, Mary Hobbs Allen, and a few letters to other members of the Allen family. Correspondents in the General Correspondence include Charles Reed Bishop, W. L. Green, Charles Coffin Harris, Henry W. Severance, and Andrew Welch. The Hawaiian Legation Correspondence contains drafts and a letterbook of official letters sent from the Hawaiian Legation. Subjects of interest covered in the several correspondence series as well as in the Subject File and Miscellany include the United States-Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty of 1876, the Hawaiian supreme court, sugar plantations and trade, Chinese labor, and Hawaiian economic and political conditions from 1850 to 1882. 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 six series:
Return to the Table of Contents Container ListFamily Correspondence, 1849-1934Letters from Allen to family members including his second wife, Mary Hobbs Allen. Arranged alphabetically by name of family member. Allen, Elisha H., Jr., 1877-1882Allen, Mary Hobbs1849-1871 (7 folders)1872-1880 (6 folders)Allen, William F., 1867-1882Miscellaneous, 1861-1934General Correspondence, 1857-1882Correspondence and miscellaneous items. Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Bishop, Charles Reed., 1869-1880Carter, H. A . P., 1875-1882Cheng Tsao Ju, 1882Frelinghuysen, Frederick T., 1882Gibson, Walter Murray, 1879-1882Green, W. L., 1874-1881Harris, Charles Coffin, 1857-1881Hitt, Robert R., 1881Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1876-1882Severance, Henry W., 1878-1882Smith, J. Mott, 1869-1882Welch, Andrew, 1875-1882Miscellaneous, A-Y, 1867-1882Hawaiian Legation Correspondence, 1877-1883Letters sent and received and letterbook. Arranged by type of material. Letters received on death of Allen, 1883Letters sent, drafts, 1877-1882Letterbook, 1877-1879Subject File, 1853-1882Treaties, trade records, and miscellaneous items. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Trade, 1857-1882Treaties, miscellaneous, 1853-1880Treaty, U.S.-Hawaii, 1855-1882Miscellany, 1867-1883Invitations, passports, photographs, speeches and writings, statistical tables, and printed matter. Arranged by type of material. Biographical materialCommissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence, See Oversize 1867, 1874-1880InvitationsObituaries, 1883PassportsPhotographsSpeeches and other writingsMiscellaneousPrinted matterAllen familyHawaiiPortrait of AllenHawaiian royal familyMiscellaneousOversize, 1867-1880Commissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. MiscellanyCommissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence, (Container 6) 1867, 1874-1880Return to the Table of Contents |
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