Inventory of the William Hayes Ackland Papers, 1847-1937

Collection Number 3547


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Ackland, William Hayes, 1855-1940.
Title
William Hayes Ackland Papers, 1847-1937.
Call Number
3547
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
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.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Bequest 1957
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the William Hayes Ackland Papers, #3547, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Ackland family.
Ackland, William Hayes, 1855-1940.
Autographs--Collectors and collecting--United States.
Children--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
England--Social life and customs--20th century.
Florida--Social life and customs.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881.
London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
Scrapbooks.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Upper class--England--Social life and customs--20th century.
Upper class--United States--Social life and customs.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
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Biographical Note

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.

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Collection Overview

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.