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Collection Reference Number GLC00496.164
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 
Title Joel Chandler Harris to unknown
Date 29 March 1884
Author Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Declines the request to be a lecturer. Written on The Constitution Magazine letterhead.
Subjects African American History  Literature and Language Arts  
People Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908)  
Place written Atlanta, Georgia
Theme Arts & Literature
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Harris was a folklorist, novelist, poet, and journalist chiefly known for his stories of African American folk-lore which created an original genre in American literature.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945