Title: William E. Elmore Collection

Identifier: 0039-b2-fc   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/50833)

Description: Correspondence, financial records, bank statements, shipping records, railroad business, poems, and legal documents relating to the colorful poet, magazine editor, railroad speculator, paper mill owner, Civil War blockade-runner, and sea captain Appleton Oaksmith who had an estate at "Hollywood," near Morehead City in Carteret County, N.C., for fifteen years (1872-1887). The 1979 item is an article about Oaksmith's life written by Dr. H. G. Jones.