Benjamin Paul Akers Letters
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Akers, Benjamin Paul, 1825-1861
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content: Benjamin Paul Akers letter collection
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content: 1858-1920
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.akerbenj, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Letters are from Akers to various friends, relatives, and others. An exchange of letters with Hiram Powers relates to an article by Akers in Atlantic Monthly. Also included are letters about Akers written to the Maine Historical Society by his widow, the writer Elizabeth Akers Allen and other acquaintances, and an obituary published in The Crayon. Some letters are addressed to Allen's pen name, Florence Perry.