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A Guide to the O. Henry Collection Henry, O. 6333-g

A Guide to the O. Henry Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 6333-g


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Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
6333-g
Title
O. Henry Collection
Extent
1 item
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

O. Henry Collection, Accession 6333-g, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Gift 29 Oct 1973

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Alexander Popini
  • Ethel Lloyd Patterson
  • Ethel Lloyd Patterson
  • George D. Smith
  • John J. Dacey
  • O. Henry
  • Reginald Birch
  • Sara Lindsay Coleman
  • William Aspenwall Bradley
  • William Henry Irwin
  • William Oberhardt
  • [William Aspenwall Bradley]
  • [William Aspenwall] Bradley
  • [William Aspenwall] Bradley
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Asheville
  • Asheville, North Carolina
  • Long Island
  • New York
  • Texas
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Item Listing

Manuscripts
  • " Strictly Business " by O. Henry
    ca. 1908
    AMsS, 48 p.

    [Includes article as printed in Broadway Magazine , 8 p. with illustrations by Alexander Popini . ] (Bound in burgundy leather)

  • " Thimble, Thimble [Thumble] " by O. Henry
    ca. 1908
    AMsS, 49 p.

    [Includes article printed in Broadway Magazine , 7 p. with illustrations by Reginald Birch ; includes letter written February 20, 1913 in which John J. Dacey of Marvin, Hooker, Roosevelt , New York discusses the authenticity of " Strictly Business , " " Nashville , " " Thimble Thumble , " and " A Municipal Report " with George D. Smith as part of bankruptcy proceedings involving New Hampton Publishing Co. ] (Bound in burgundy leather)

  • " The Friendly Call " by O. Henry
    ca. 1910
    AMsS, 32 p. (Bound in red leather in red cloth slipcase)

    [Includes editorial markings, photograph of O. Henry and article as printed in Rolling Stones , 15 p.; published in "Monthly Magazine Section," July, 1910.]

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Letters
  • O. Henry to "Mysterious 'A Woman' " [ Ethel Lloyd Patterson ]
    1905 Sep 17
    AL, 7 p.

    [Responds to her answer to a personal he placed in The New York Herald ; discusses his search for "congenial company" for himself and a friend; mentions Texas and New York ; includes " O. Henry and Me" by Ethel Lloyd Patterson with illustrations by William Oberhardt as printed in Everybody's Magazine , 6 p.; includes a photograph of O. Henry . ] (Bound in dark blue leather)

  • O. Henry , Battery Park Hotel , Asheville, North Carolina , to [William Aspenwall Bradley]
    [ca. 1907] Nov 10
    ALS, 3 p. w/transcript, 2 p.

    [Discusses insomnia causing him to visit Asheville ; mentions expected completion of a "Yucatan story"; Miss Tracy.] (Bound in blue leather with following three letters and a photograph of O. Henry.)

  • O. Henry , Asheville, North Carolina , to [ William Aspenwall Bradley ]
    1907 Nov 18
    ALS, 4 p. w/transcript, 3 p.

    [Discusses his upcoming [marriage], his health, expected completion of a story, plans to return to New York , the possibility of a novel, being "mixed up in the McC[lure] books," and an advance; mentions Sara Lindsay Coleman , Mrs. [William Aspenwall] Bradley , Asheville . ] (Bound in blue leather)

  • O. Henry , The Caledonia, New York to [ William Aspenwall Bradley ]
    [ca. 1908] Oct 21
    ALS, 4 p. w/transcript, 1 p.

    [Discusses a change in housing place; mentions Good Ground, [ Long Island ].] (Bound in blue leather)

  • O. Henry , The Caledonia, to [William Aspenwall] Bradley
    Monday
    ALS, 2 p. w/transcript, 1 p

    [Discusses an advance on a story, a story for William Henry Irwin . ].(Bound in blue leather)

  • O. Henry to [William Aspenwall] Bradley
    Saturday
    ALS, 2 p. w/transcript, 2 p.

    [Discusses illness, getting together with Bradley, taking a friend to see some publishers, a syndicate story, the need to get away, the proofs of some stories, a check.] (Bound in blue leather)

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