Yours truly,
Sydney Porter.
[Mr. Al. Jennings, of Oklahoma City, was an early friend of O. Henry’s. Now, in 1912, a prominent attorney, Mr. Jennings, in his youth, held up trains.]
[Mr. Al. Jennings, of Oklahoma City, was an early friend of O. Henry’s. Now, in 1912, a prominent attorney, Mr. Jennings, in his youth, held up trains.]
28 W. 26. N. Y. Sunday.
Algie Jennings, Esq., The West.
Dear Bill:
Glad you’ve been sick too. I’m well again. Are you?
Well, as I had nothing to do I thought I would write you a letter; and as I have nothing to say I will close.
How are ye, Bill? How’s old Initiative and Referendum? When you coming back to Manhattan? You wouldn’t know the old town now. Main Street is building up, and there is talk of an English firm putting up a new hotel. I saw Duffy a few days ago. He looks kind of thoughtful as if he were trying to calculate how much he’d have been ahead on Gerald’s board and clothes by now if you had taken him with you. Mrs. Hale is up in Maine for a 3 weeks’ vacation.
Say, Bill, I’m sending your MS. back by mail to-day. I kept it a little longer after you sent for it because one of the McClure & Phillips firm wanted to see it first. Everybody says it is full of good stuff, but thinks it should be put in a more connected shape by some skilful writer who has been trained to that sort work.