Catalog Record:
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
The papers of Henry Justin Allen, publisher, governor of Kansas, and United States senator, were given to the Library of Congress in 1966-1967 by his daughter, Henrietta Allen Holmes.
The collection was processed in 1969 and revised in 1978. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Henry Justin Allen in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
The Allen Papers are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Henry Justin Allen Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Henry Justin Allen (1868-1950) span the years 1896-1942, with the bulk concentrated in the period 1919-1942. The collection is organized in three series: Pre-Gubernatorial File, Gubernatorial File, and Post-Gubernatorial File. Letters concerning family affairs, including occasional letters to his wife, are scattered throughout the collection. Material relating to his business activities is located in both the Gubernatorial and Post-Gubernatorial Files.
Allen served four years as governor of Kansas, 1919-1923, and the achievements and controversies that marked these years are documented in the Gubernatorial File. Arranged in seventeen subseries, this series is composed primarily of correspondence and touches upon virtually all aspects of Allen's tenure as governor. The material concerning the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations and a subseries on labor relations is particularly complete, while the relatively small Presidential File is a good source of information for Republican Party politics in the months preceding the National Republican Convention in 1920. Other topics include the Ku Klux Klan, the Industrial Workers of the World, the National Nonpartisan League and Allen's debate over labor relations with Samuel Gompers. The extensive General Correspondence subseries relates to all aspects of Allen's tenure, and letters sent and received from prominent persons form the basis of the Special Correspondence. Prominent correspondents in the latter group include Will H. Hays, Harold L. Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Arthur H. Vandenberg, William Allen White, and Leonard Wood.
The Post-Gubernatorial File chronicles Allen's public career after leaving the governorship, including his brief tenure as United States senator, 1929-1930, and is divided into thirteen subseries. The material in the Special Correspondence and General Correspondence subseries relates to all aspects of his career during this period, as does the material in the Publications and Speech Material files. The less-publicized facets of Allen's career, including his activities on behalf of Near East Relief, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, and Save the Children (U.S.), are also amply documented.
The collection is arranged in three series:
Letters received and copies of letter sent with attached and related material.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Holograph, typed, and printed copies of speeches and articles.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related matter.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent and therein chronologically.
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related matter.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, bills, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence, printed matter, and reference material.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence, speeches, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
Correspondence, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material.
Correspondence.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Correspondence, clippings, and printed matter.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically by year.
Correspondence.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Congratulatory correspondence.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Applications for position.
Arranged by office and therein chronologically by year.
Speeches and articles.
Arranged chronologically by month.
Invitations.
Arranged chronologically by month.
Reports, clippings, bills and receipts, printed matter, and other items.
Arranged by type of material.
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
Letters received and copies of letters sent with attached and related matter.
Arranged chronologically by year.
Correspondence, reports, bills, applications for position and appointments, clippings, printed matter, financial matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of government department, agency, or bureau and therein by type of material.
Correspondence, reports, invitations, petitions, photographs, press releases, clippings, notes, public relations material, and miscellaneous items.
Organized into three groups: Senate, 1930; National Campaign, 1932; and National Campaign, 1936, and therein alphabetically by subject, topic, jurisdiction, or type of material.
Correspondence, reports, appointment material, clippings, printed matter, financial matter, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence, reports, and miscellaneous legislative material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Correspondence, press releases, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Correspondence, reports, printed matter, scrapbook, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Correspondence, reports, press releases, radio scripts, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, location, or type of material.
Correspondence, articles, clippings, press releases, and printed matter.
Arranged alphabetically by topic, organization, location, or type of material.
Speech material.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
Invitations to events.
Arranged alphabetically by type of organization or forum.
Correspondence, reports, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, subject, organization, or type of material.