There is extant a mass of O. Henry correspondence that has not been included in this collection. During the better part of a decade in New York City he wrote constantly to editors, and in many instances intimately. This is very important material, and permission has been secured to use nearly all of it in a biographical volume that will be issued within the next two or three years. The letters in this volume have been chosen as an “exihibit,” as early specimens of his writing and for their particularly characteristic turns of thought and phrase. The collection is not “complete” in any historical sense.
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This record of births and deaths is copied from the Porter Family Bible, just lately discovered. BIRTHS Algernon Sidney Porter Son of Sidney and Ruth C. Porter Was born August 22, 1825 Monday Evening, May 29, 1858 Still-born Son of A. S. and M. V. Porter Monday, August 6, 1860, 9 o’clock p.m. Shirley Worth Son of A. S. and M. V. Porter Thursday, September 11, 1862, 9 o’clock p.m. William Sidney [1] Son of A. S. and M. V. Porter Sunday, March 26, 1865, at 8 o’clock a. m. David Weir Son of A. S. and M. V. Porter Mary Jane Virginia Swaim [2] Daughter of William and Abiah Swaim Was born February 12, 1833 DEATHS Mary Virginia Porter Tuesday Evening, September 26, 1865 At 7:30 o’clock Athol Estes Porter Sunday Evening, July 25,1897 At 6 o’clock Algernon Sidney Porter Sunday Morning, September 30, 1888 At 20 minutes of 2 o’clock |
THE DREAM
[This was the last work of O. Henry. The Cosmopolitan Magazine had ordered it from him and, after his death, the unfinished manuscript was found in his room, on his dusty desk. The story as it here appears was published in the Cosmopolitan for September, 1910.]
[This was the last work of O. Henry. The Cosmopolitan Magazine had ordered it from him and, after his death, the unfinished manuscript was found in his room, on his dusty desk. The story as it here appears was published in the Cosmopolitan for September, 1910.]