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Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Victor Louis Ménage in which Allen thanks Ménage for sending Serbo-Croat Celebi volumes and admits that despite his lack of knowledge in Serbo-Croat his knowledge of Russian helped him asses that the editor of the text has done a good job. Dated: 18 October 1960.

Letter from Vera Bowen to Natasha Allen. Harold Bowen's wife sends William Allen's wife a copy of Allen's Celebi proposal which she found in her home. Copy is with the letter. This is a version of WA/1/1/1. Dated: April 28 1964.

Letter from W.E.D. Allen to Vera Bowen in which Allen thanks Vera Bowen for sending back his original letter and informs her that his Celebi project is still a work in progress which he hopes to accomplish before his death. He will be in London the next week and hopes to meet with her to discuss her husband's literary materials. Dated: 1 May 1964.

Letter from Victor Louis Ménage to W.E.D. Allen in which Ménage apologises for his inability to help Allen further with his work on Celebi due to his own workload at the university. However, he suggests Allen read a thesis available at Senate House library that could help. Ménage attaches his guidelines on checking out material from the library. Dated: 21 July 1965.

There are two typed manuscripts concerned with the translations of the works of Evliya Celebi.

Manuscript titled: Translation of Cavit Baysun's article in "Turk Islam Ansiklopedisi". Summary of Turkish work on Evliya Celebi. This summary was used by Allen during his early research on the topic, Allen also attached a copy with his project proposal to Harold Bowen at the Hakluyt Society. Dated: 1948.

Bibliography titled: "Wordage estimated from printed Turkish edition. Summary of contents in French by Professor Awirl Decei of Istanbul". List of volumes of Evliya Celebi's work including dates of volumes, estimates of page number and word count of each volume in Allen's handwriting. Typed manuscript, undated.

This series consists of correspondence between William Allen and Vladimir Minorsky. The material dates from later in Minrosky's life but he is still active in producing translations of material. Much of the correspondence concerns both his and Allen's work in translation. There is also a printed bibliography.

This sub-series consists of 42 items of correspondence between Allen and Minorsky.

Letter from V. Minorsky to W.E.D. Allen in which Minorsky discusses books and whether Allen has received copies of his Sharvan and Darband. He has received few copies for personal distribution to his friends. Dated: 18 December 1952.