John Wilson Townsend : papers, 1893-1949.

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John Wilson Townsend : papers, 1893-1949.

Papers mainly consisting of letters (43 items), 1893-1924, of James Lane Allen to Townsend and others, together with letters about Allen from J. Christian Bay, S.S. Bush, Frances H. Jewett, Grant C. Knight, Orson Lowell, Albert Sterner, John Tomson, and Samuel C. Williams; Allen's speech as president of the King Solomon Memorial Association, 1908; and a poem by Thomas Jones, Jr. Most of the letters from Allen to Townsend were published in Townsend's book, James Lane Allen (1927).

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The Filson Historical Society

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