Weston-Allen Family Papers, 1848-1985 (Bulk: 1848-1868)
1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 185
Terms of Access and Use:
The papers are open for research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to the works created by members of the Weston-Allen family. Copyright to materials created by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission must be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use."
Walter Allen was born in Boston, Massachusetts March 21, 1840, but the family soon moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he lived until his marriage. He graduated from Yale in 1863 and in the same year enlisted in the 26th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Shortly thereafter he was mustered out to become Acting Assistant Paymaster in the U.S. Navy. After his discharge in August 1865 he decided to move west and began his newspaper career in Cairo, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio. During his years as a journalist he wrote for 8 different newspapers, mostly in New York and Boston. He died in Boston in 1907.
Grace Weston was born September 5, 1840, in New Braintree, Massachusetts. She graduated from the Oread Institute in Worcester and from the finishing school of the Misses Anabele in Philadelphia, after which she served as a governess for two years in Chicago. They were married on October 9, 1866.
This biographical sketch was excerpted in part from "Biographical Sketches, Yale Class of 1863," which was reproduced in Ten Years a-Courting. [For more information on Grace Weston, see History of the Oread Collegiate Institute (1905) by Martha E.B. Wright, bio. sketches]
The Weston-Allen Family Papers consist mainly of letters of Grace Weston and Walter Allen, 1856-1868. There are 81 letters from Grace Weston to Walter Allen, 1856-1868, plus 65 letters from Walter Allen to his family while he was in the Navy during the Civil War. Their granddaughter, Alice Allen Eaton Johnson (Smith Class 1929), compiled an edited version of the letters entitled Ten Years a-Courting, Letters of Walter Allen and Grace Weston, 1856-1868 (1985), which is included in this collection. In addition there are 3 miscellaneous letters and a few photographs.
The papers are open for research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to the works created by members of the Weston-Allen family. Copyright to materials created by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission must be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use."
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Weston-Allen Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
The Weston-Allen Family Papers were the gift of Alice Allen Eaton Johnson in 1985.
Processed by Susan Boone, 1985.
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Sophia Smith Collection
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Ten Years a-Courting, Letters of Walter Allen and Grace Weston, 1856-1868, by Alice Allen Eaton Johnson,
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1985
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Box 1: folder 1
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Correspondence
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Grace Weston to Walter Allen,
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1856-68
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Box 1: folder 2-7
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Walter Allen to Grace Weston,
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1864-68
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Box 1: folder 8-9
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Family to Walter Allen,
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1863-65
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Box 1: folder 10-12
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Miscellaneous,
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1848, 1862, 1865
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Box 1: folder 13
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Photographs,
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1856-1900
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Box 1: folder 14
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