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Size | About 4,000 items (12.5 linear feet). |
Abstract | Native of Tennessee; author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. After his death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ackland's name was originally Acklen. Ackland travelled widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved in society in England and America. His papers, mostly dating from 1890, consist of extensive social correspondence; manuscripts of short stories, novels, and plays written by him; notebooks and scrapbooks on many subjects, especially reflecting social conditions during the Victorian age and into the early 20th century; personal diaries, 1894-1900 and 1927-1928; autograph letters and autographs of many British and American notables; reminiscences of his childhood near Nashville, Tenn., his education, and his legal practice and social life; and other items. Letters to Ackland include two, 1878 and 1879, from Henry W. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier about what he thought was involved in being a poet. Collected items incude single letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884, and James Russell Lowell, 1886, and two letters from John Greenleaf Whittier. |
Creator | Ackland, William Hayes, 1855-1940. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021
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Native of Tennessee; author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. After his death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ackland's name was originally Acklen.
Back to TopAckland travelled widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved in society in England and America. His papers, mostly dating from 1890, consist of extensive social correspondence; manuscripts of short stories, novels, and plays written by him; notebooks and scrapbooks on many subjects, especially reflecting social conditions during the Victorian age and into the early 20th century; personal diaries, 1894-1900 and 1927-1928; autograph letters and autographs of many British and American notables; reminiscences of his childhood near Nashville, Tenn., his education, and his legal practice and social life; and other items. Letters to Ackland include two, 1878 and 1879, from Henry W. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier about what he thought was involved in being a poet. Collected items incude single letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884, and James Russell Lowell, 1886, and two letters from John Greenleaf Whittier.
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Box 1-25
Box 1Box 2Box 3Box 4Box 5Box 6Box 7Box 8Box 9Box 10Box 11Box 12Box 13Box 14Box 15Box 16Box 17Box 18Box 19Box 20Box 21Box 22Box 23Box 24Box 25 |
Papers |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3547/1b |
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Image Folder PF-3547/1-2
PF-3547/1PF-3547/2 |
Images |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3547/1 |
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Oversize Volume SV-3547/64 |
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Oversize Volume SV-3547/76 |
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Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3547/1 |
Extra oversize papersIncludes The Journalist volume 15 no. 21 dated 6 August 1892 featuring William Hayes Acklan and a diploma in Latin dated 1875 for William Acklan from the University of Nashville and a diploma for Art Media. |
Oversize volumes (SV-3547/64, 76)
Images (PF-3547/1-2, OP-PF-3547/1)
Oversize papers (OPF-3547/1b, XOPF-3547/1)
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