Nathaniel Topliff Allen Family Papers
Auteur : Nathaniel Topliff Allen
Date de publication : 1846
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Nombre de pages : Non disponible
Résumé du livre
Includes information concerning daughters Lucy and Fanny Allen who started the Misses Allen School in the family home on Webster Street, The Story of the Allens in Education, written by Lucy Ellis Allen, and memorial booklets about daughters Sarah Allen Cooney and Fanny Bassett Allen; Rosa Allen's Family Songs (1899) containing text and music for 12 American folksongs sung by the Allens at family gatherings; correspondence and documents concerning Allen's friendship with many well-known educators and abolitionists such as Horace Mann, Cyrus Peirce, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Elizabeth Peabody, Catherine Beecher, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington; and information concerning Allen's involvement with Rebecca Pomroy and the Pomroy Home for Orphan Girls, Unitarian Church of West Newton, West Newton Athenaeum, and other organizations. Includes copy of Catalogue of the West Newton English and Classical School 1854-1893 (1895).