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A Guide to the Papers of O. Henry from the Doubleday and Company Archive 1894 (1984-1927) 1958 Doubleday and Company Archive, Papers of O. Henry from 7457

A Guide to the Papers of O. Henry from the Doubleday and Company Archive 1894 (1984-1927) 1958

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Accession Number 7457


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
7457
Title
Papers of O. Henry from the Doubleday and Company Archive, 1894 (1894-1927) 1958
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of 62 items.
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Papers of O. Henry from the Doubleday and Company Archive, Accession #7457 , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library by Doubleday and Company through Raymond R. Ammarelle, Charlottesville, Virginia, on March 21, 1964.

Scope and Content Information

The collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of several short stories by O. Henry; radio adaptations of O. Henry stories by Henry Fisk Carlton, one in collaboration with Robert Winternitz; material regarding a film adaptation of "Best Seller" by Roy Mason; and an unpublished biographical account of Henry's Texas days by Paul Adams.

With these are a letter, 1908? July 16, Henry to Stephen Fiske thanking him for favorable reviews; correspondence, 1910, 1925, of Fiske and Mason with Doubleday and Co.; and a letter, 1958 June 20, of Kate Steichen regarding Doubleday's Henry collection with a bibliography of his work.

There are also three printed articles by Henry, and a published letter and pen-and-ink drawing by him.

Contents List

Manuscripts
  • Cast of Characters of O. Henry's "Best Seller," adapted for film by Roy Mason 1925
    TMs, 4 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • Continuity of Scenes for O. Henry's "Best Seller," adapted for film by Roy Mason 1925
    TMs, 94 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • Scene Plot of O. Henry's "Best Seller," adapted for film by Roy Mason 1925
    TMs, 4 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • Synopsis of O. Henry's "Best Seller," adapted for film by Roy Mason 1925
    TMs, 17 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • "Blind Man's Holiday," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 32 p.
  • "The Brief Debut of Tildy," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Sept 7
    TMs (C), 37 p.
  • "A Cactus Thorn" by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    AMsS, 8 p.

    Last three pages supplied in typescript. Posthumously published as "The Cactus."

  • "A Chaparral Prince," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 24 p.
  • "The Clarion Call," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 26 p.
  • "Entertaining By Ear," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 2 p.
  • "The Ghost that Came to Old Angels," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    AMsS, 13 p.
  • "The Hand that Riles the World," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 37 p.
  • "The Handbook of Hymen," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Sept 14
    TMs (C), 34 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • "How the Country Was Saved," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 3 copies, 1 p.
  • "If You See It in the ---- It's So," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 1 p.
  • "Jack, the Giant-Killer," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 4 p.
  • "Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 31 p.
  • "Little Speck in Garnered Fruit," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Oct 14
    TMs (C), 27 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • "Mammon and the Archer," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Aug 10
    TMs (C), 28 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • "A New Candidate for Sympathy," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 2 p., 3 copies
  • "One Dollar's Worth," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Sept 30
    TMs (C), 32 p.
  • "Past One at Rooney's," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton and Robert Winternitz n.d.
    Near-Print, 36 p.
  • "Phoebe," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 27 p.

    with autograph corrections

  • "Pursuing Ideals," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 9 p.
  • "The Ransom of Mack," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton 1927 Sept 21
    TMs (C), 27 p.
  • "A Real O. Henry Romance," by Paul Adams n.d.
    TMs, 4 p.

    An unpublished biographical account of Porter's "Texas days."

  • "The Return of the Songster," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 4 p.
  • "Schools and Schools," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    Near-Print, 29 p.
  • "The Scoop that Failed," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMsS, 11 p.
  • "Some Pointers on Culture," by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    TMs, 2 p., 3 copies
  • "Tracked to Doom, or The Mystery of the Rue de Peychand," by William Sydney Porter [ca. 1894]
    TMs, includes two carbon copies, 2 p.

    A revised version appeared in an 1894 edition of the Rolling Stone .

  • "The Whirligigs of Life," adapted for radio by Henry Fisk Carlton n.d.
    TMs (C), 33 p.
  • "Whistling Sam's Christmas Stocking," by William Sydney Porter. [ca. 1989]
    TMs, 8 p. Includes two copies of a carbon excerpt from a revised version, 2 pages.

    Revised and published in 1899 as "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking."

  • An unidentifed excerpt, beginning "seemed so far removed from you," attributed to O. Henry n.d.
    TMs (C), 1 p., 2 copies
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Letters
  • William Sydney Porter to Stephen Fiske [1908?] Jul 16
    TL, 1 p.

    In thanks for Fiske's favorable reviews of O. Henry's work

  • Stephen Fiske to (Doubleday and Company?) 1910 Oct 11
    AN, 1 p.

    re Porter's letter of July 16 [1908?] and the article to which it refers

  • [Doubleday and Company?] to Stephen Fiske 1910 Oct 14
    TL (C), 1 p.

    Concerning his note of Oct 11, 1910

  • Roy Mason to Mr. Doubleday, concerning his film adaptation of O. Henry's "Best Seller" 1925 Jun 21
    ALS, 1 p.
  • [Doubleday?] to Roy Mason 1925 Jun 25
    TL (C), 1 p.

    re payment for Mason's film adaptation of O. Henry's "Best Seller"

  • Kate Steichen to "all editors" 1958 Jun 20
    TL, 15 p.

    re Doubleday and Company's collection of O. Henry manuscripts, including a chronological bibliography of William Sydney Porter's work

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Drawings
  • Pen-and-ink drawing of a cowboy in a city street, with a hand-lettered limerick, by William Sydney Porter n.d.
    Drawing
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Printed Material
  • "Proof of the Pudding," by O. Henry, from Broadway Magazine 1907 May
    Printed, 4 p.
  • "Rus in Urbe," by O. Henry, from Hampton's Magazine 1909 Aug
    Printed, 4 p.
  • "A Municipal Report," by O. Henry 1909 Nov
    Printed, 5 p.

    Includes eight copies from Hampton's Magazine

  • "O. Henry's Most Humorous Letter" 1918 Sep 29
    Broadside, 1 p.

    Publication of a letter written in 1905 by Sydney Porter to Mr. George Rathborne to apologize for his unintentional use of Rathborne's name in a short story, "Tommy's Burglar," which was later published in Whirligigs

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