Elisha Hunt Allen Papers
Catalog Record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm73010447
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collection
Elisha Hunt Allen Papers 1849-1934 (bulk 1867-1882)
Allen, Elisha Hunt, 1804-1883
Biographical History for: Elisha Hunt Allen Papers 1849-1934 (bulk 1867-1882)
Biographical Note Date Event 1804, Jan. 28 Born, New Salem, Mass. 1823 Graduated Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. 1826 Admitted to Massachusetts bar 1828 Married Sarah Elizabeth Fessenden (died 1845) 1835-1840 Member, Maine House of Representatives 1841-1843 Member, United States House of Representatives from Maine 1849 Member, Massachusetts House of Representatives 1850-1853 United States consul to Hawaii 1853-1857 Minister of finance, Kingdom of Hawaii 1857 Married Mary Harrod Hobbs 1857-1877 Chancellor and Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii Supreme Court 1876 Negotiated the United States-Hawaii Reciprocity Treaty 1876-1883 United States minister to Hawaii 1883, Jan. 1 Died, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Content Note The 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.
series
Family Correspondence, 1849-1934
Letters from Allen to family members including his second wife, Mary Hobbs Allen.
file
Allen, Elisha H., Jr., 1877-1882
Allen, Mary Hobbs
Allen, William F., 1867-1882
Miscellaneous, 1861-1934
General Correspondence, 1857-1882
Correspondence and miscellaneous items.
Bishop, Charles Reed., 1869-1880
Carter, H. A . P., 1875-1882
Cheng Tsao Ju, 1882
Frelinghuysen, Frederick T., 1882
Gibson, Walter Murray, 1879-1882
Green, W. L., 1874-1881
Harris, Charles Coffin, 1857-1881
Hitt, Robert R., 1881
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1876-1882
Severance, Henry W., 1878-1882
Smith, J. Mott, 1869-1882
Welch, Andrew, 1875-1882
Miscellaneous, A-Y, 1867-1882
Hawaiian Legation Correspondence, 1877-1883
Letters sent and received and letterbook.
Letters received on death of Allen, 1883
Letters sent, drafts, 1877-1882
Letterbook, 1877-1879
Subject File, 1853-1882
Treaties, trade records, and miscellaneous items.
Trade, 1857-1882
Treaties, miscellaneous, 1853-1880
Treaty, U.S.-Hawaii, 1855-1882
Miscellany, 1867-1883
Invitations, passports, photographs, speeches and writings, statistical tables, and printed matter.
Biographical material
Commissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence, 1867, 1874-1880 See Oversize
Invitations
Obituaries, 1883
Passports
Photographs
Speeches and other writings
Miscellaneous
Printed matter
Allen family
Hawaii
Portrait of Allen
Hawaiian royal family
Oversize, 1867-1880
Commissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence
Miscellany
Commissions, statistical tables, and letters of credence, 1867, 1874-1880 (Container 6)