Scope and Contents
Correspondence with family, colleagues, and students, 1846-1902, includes letters from Allen to his family, 1851, about travel from Charleston, South Carolina, to New Orleans, Louisiana, with observations on slavery and other impressions of the South; letters to Allen from colleagues, 1865, about his acquittal on charges of assaulting and causing the death of a student; and condolence letters following the death of his daughter, Sarah Caroline Allen Cooney (1861-1897).
Notebooks include student notes from the State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.), 1845-1846, about arithmetic, algebra, geometry, physiology, geography, and grammar, and the Rensselaer Institute, 1847, about botany and chemistry; teaching notes relating to the Model School in West Newton, 1852-1853; notes, accounts, and a scrapbook from travel in Europe and research on education in Germany, 1869-1871; and catalogs of his library and mineral specimens, undated. Other writings include a draft biography of Irish social reformer and suffragist Frances Power Cobbe, undated; and notes, articles, and speeches, 1869-1902 and undated, relating to education, politics, religion, travel, and other subjects.
Biographical materials include memoirs by Allen, 1884 and undated; biographical sketches from published reference sources, 1890-1929; a typescript eulogy by Julian Clifford Jaynes, minister of the First Unitarian Society in West Newton; obituaries; and other articles about Allen and the West Newton English and Classical School, 1853-1993.
Other papers include real estate deeds and maps for properties owned by Allen and his family in West Newton and Medfield, Massachusetts, 1840s-1911; financial accounts with James Theodore Allen, Joseph Addison Allen, and others, 1843-1893; a photograph of a school picnic, 1892, and reproductions of photographs of Allen, 1840s and undated; printed material including advertisements for Pinehurst Resort, North Carolina, 1897-1898 and undated; and a small amount of notes and research material by an unidentified researcher, 2009 and undated.
Dates
- 1834 - 2009
- Majority of material found within 1843 - 1903
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
1.54 Linear Feet (5 boxes + 1 broadside)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Biographical / Historical
- Abolitionists -- Massachusetts
- Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- 19th century
- Allen, Caroline Swift Bassett, 1830-1915
- Allen, Fanny Bassett
- Allen, George Ellis, 1817-1888
- Allen, James Theodore, 1831-1900
- Allen, Joseph Addison, 1819-1904
- Allen, Lucy Ellis
- Allen, Lucy, 1793-1889
- Allen, Nathaniel T. (Nathaniel Topliff), 1823-1903
- Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904
- Coeducation -- Massachusetts
- Cooney, Sarah Allen
- Education -- Germany
- Education -- Massachusetts
- Educators -- Massachusetts
- Educators -- Massachusetts -- 19th century
- Jaynes, Julian Clifford, 1854-1922
- Medfield (Mass. : Town) -- Maps
- Medfield (Mass. : Town) -- Social life and customs
- Photographs
- Pinehurst (N.C.) -- Social life and customs
- Pinehurst Resort & Country Club (Pinehurst, N.C.)
- Rensselaer Institute -- Students
- School integration -- Massachusetts
- Slavery -- Southern States
- Slavery -- United States
- Southern States -- Description and travel
- State Normal School (Bridgewater, Mass.) -- Students
- State Normal School at Framingham, Mass
- State Normal School at West Newton (Mass.)
- West Newton (Newton, Mass.) -- Social life and customs
- West Newton English and Classical School
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States
- Title
- Guide to the Nathaniel T. Allen Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Karen Spicher
- Date
- 2016 February
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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