Papers : of the Allen family, 1825-1953 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The majority of the collection consists of letters to John James Allen in Texas from family members in Botetourt County, Va., particularly his parents John James Allen and Mary Elizabeth Allen, and his brothers at the University of Virginia Henry Clay Allen and Robert Edwin Allen. Mrs. Allen was a niece of Dolley Madison and there are references in the letters to Montpelier and the Cutts family, particularly the marriage of Ad-ele Cutts to Stephen A. Douglas