Papers, 1848-1985 (bulk 1848-1868).

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Papers, 1848-1985 (bulk 1848-1868).

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Correspondence; photographs. Letters (1856-1868) from Grace Weston Allen (of New Braintree, Massachusetts) to Walter Allen (of Worcester, Mass.) before and after their marriage in 1866; letters (1864-1868) from Walter Allen to his wife; and from other family members to Allen during his service as paymaster in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War; other materials include published version of the Weston-Allen letters: Ten Years A-Courting: Letters of Walter Allen and Grace Weston, 1856-1868 and biographical materials compiled by their granddaughter, Alice Allen Eaton Johnson.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Weston family.

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Johnson, Alice Allen Eaton

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Allen family.

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Weston-Allen family.

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Allen, Walter, 1840-1907

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Walter Allen, born in Birmingham in 1911, was the fourth son of Charles Allen and his wife, Annie. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Aston and then at Birmingham University. After graduation he became a freelance writer and during the course of his career was a prolific contributor to all kinds of publications. Allen was one of a small group of novelists, which included John Hampson, Henry Green and Leslie Halward, working in Birmingham in the later 1930s. His first n...

Allen, Grace Weston, 1840-

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