![]() ![]() Proceedings of the annual meetings of the North Carolina Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church for the years 1935, 1937, 1940, 1943-1946, and 1950. 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. Longfellow, and an eight-page letter, 1880, from Sidney Lanier about what he thought was involved in being a poet. Letters to Ackland include two, 18, from Henry W. ![]() 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, 28 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. Ackland travelled widely, spending part of each year in London and Florida, and moved in society in England and America. After his death Ackland's art collection and an endowment for a museum was given to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Native of Tennessee author, art collector, and Washington, D.C., lawyer. ![]()
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