 In 1885, Akelaitis published 49-page "Rzut oka na starożytność narodu litewskiego" (A Glance at the Antiquity of the Lithuanian People), which he originally wrote in Lithuanian.Akelaitis was also a poet and published a few of his poems, including poems in "Teka Wileńska" (six volumes published in 1857–1858), poems dedicated to Nicolaus Copernicus and Lithuanian goddess Aušrinė in the Polish periodical "", "Moja miłość" (My Love) in "Mrówka" in 1869, "Stracona owieczka" (Lost Sheep) in a Polish calendar published by Jan Jaworski in 1877.His largest published work, the first part of a Lithuanian grammar in Polish which discussed phonetics, was published posthumously by in 1890.