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Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1894.

Career

Instructor in English, Harvard, 1908-1913, 1919-1920. Hoar family research and publication, 1920-1940; II. Historic Concord, 1942-1947; III. Typescripts on various historical topics, [before 1915]-[1935]; IV. Research materials (notes, correspondence, clippings, etc.) on various historical topics, 1904-1945; V.

Printed pamphlets, stories, and articles, 1898-[1957]; VI. Dramatic productions, 1904, 1935; VII. Material about Allen French, 1924-1926.

BIOGRAPHY: Author, historian, antiquarian, and resident of Concord, Mass.; lecturer on historical and other topics; instructor in English at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Includes two letters regarding publication.

SERIES IV. RESEARCH MATERIALS (NOTES, CORRESPONDENCE, CLIPPINGS, ETC.) ON VARIOUS HISTORICAL TOPICS, 1904-1945:

Box 1, Folder 12:

Topics in early Concord/American history—Native American, Colonial, Revolutionary (1929-1945, and undated).

His historical titles include The Siege of Boston (1911), Old Concord (1915), The Day of Concord and Lexington (1925), A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston (1926), and The First Year of the American Revolution (1934). Items in the Ruth R. Wheeler papers and Allen French-Ruth Wheeler collection in the Concord Free Public Library dovetail with the contents of the CFPL’s Allen French papers.

PROCESSED BY: LPW; finding aid completed October 30, 2003.

CONTAINER LIST

SERIES I.

HOAR FAMILY RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION, 1920-1940:

Box 1, Folder 1:

Correspondence (1920-1940).

Box 1, Folder 2:

Notes (undated).

Box 1, Folder 3:

Typescript, "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar" (1936).

Box 1, Folder 4:

Reprint, "Two Concord Laymen: John and Samuel Hoar" ("Read before the Unitarian Historical Society at its annual meeting in Boston, May 21, 1936, and reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society, Vol.

V, Part I").

Box 1, Folder 5:

Typescript, "John Hoar and the Praying Indians" ([1936]).

SERIES II. HISTORIC CONCORD, 1942-1947:

Box 1, Folder 6:

Typescript, ([1942]).

Box 1, Folder 7:

Correspondence relating to publication (1942-1947).

SERIES III.

TYPESCRIPTS ON VARIOUS HISTORICAL TOPICS, [BEFORE 1915]-[1935]:

Box 1, Folder 8:

Undated draft of Old Concord (clearly dating from before 1915, when the book was published).

Box 1, Folder 9:

"A Review of the History of the Concord Free Public Library" (read at a meeting held October 1, 1923 to commemorate the CFPL’s 50^th anniversary).

Box 1, Folder 10:

"Literary Concord" (address before the South Middlesex Unitarian Conference, 1924).

Box 1, Folder 11:

"Concord, Massachusetts, A Social History, 1635-1885; or, Two Centuries and a Half, Concord, Massachusetts, 1635-1885; or Old Concord, 1635-1885" (draft; [1935]).

French died at his Nashawtuc Road home on October 6, 1946.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Papers, 1898-[1957], relating primarily to French’s research and publication on Concord history and literature. 66).

Box 2, Folder 7:

Reprint (Boston, 1931) "The Hallowell-Graves Fisticuffs, 1775" (Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.

63, 1929).

Box 2, Folder 8:

"The New House and Old Collection of the Concord Antiquarian Society" (Old Time New England, Vol. 21, No. 4, Apr. 1931, p. 167).

Box 2, Folder 2:

Offprint, "The Junior Cup" (St. The Day of Concord and Lexington, 1925.

A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston, 1926.

The Taking of Ticonderoga, 1775, 1928.

Historic Concord, 1942.

Home: Concord, Massachusetts

Achievements

• Allen French has been listed as a notable author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

Connections

Married Ellen R. Dorrance, April. Son of John James and Frances Maria (Stratton) French.

17-31).

Box 2, Folder 11:

"The Siege of Ré, by the Late Allen French" (Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 28, No. 116, Winter 1950, p. 1932).

Box 1, Folder 19:

Arrest of Alcott, Lane, and Thoreau (Edward Waldo Emerson’s notes, 1882, copied by Allen French in 1915).

Box 1, Folder 20:

The Alcotts, including moving of School of Philosophy building (1940-1945); also, Charles Lane and Alcott (undated).

Box 1, Folder 21:

World War I memorial boulder (1923-1924, 1941).

Box 1, Folder 22:

Edward Holton James and League of Youth for Peace (1926).

SERIES V.

PRINTED PAMPHLETS, STORIES, AND ARTICLES, 1898-[1957]:

Box 2, Folder 1:

"My Fight with a Catamount" (The Youth’s Companion, Apr. 7, 1898, p. His guidebook Historic Concord was first issued as a thin pamphlet in 1924 by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, republished in revised and expanded form in 1942, later reissued.

Married Ellen Dorrance and moved to Concord in 1898. Allen French was a prolific writer of juvenile stories for serial and book publication and of historical fiction, books based on Icelandic history, works on gardening, and studies of Colonial, Revolutionary, and Concord history.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1892.

The Reform of Shaun, 1905.

Pelham and His Friend Tim, 1906.

The Story of Grettir the Strong, 1908.

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