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The World and the Door (open access)

The World and the Door

A short story about a New York broker who flees to Central America.
Date: August 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Struggle of the Outliers (open access)

The Struggle of the Outliers

A short story about two men fighting over the same woman.
Date: August 1902
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Tempered Wind (open access)

A Tempered Wind

Short story about a grafter named Buckingham Skinner.
Date: August 1904
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Unfinished Story (open access)

An Unfinished Story

Short story in which a young woman prepares for a date.
Date: August 1905
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trimmed Lamp (open access)

The Trimmed Lamp

Short story about two young women living and working in New York.
Date: August 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Higher Abdication (open access)

The Higher Abdication

Short story set in San Antonio.
Date: August 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Blackjack Bargainer (open access)

A Blackjack Bargainer

Short story about a family feud.
Date: August 1901
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Two Renegades (open access)

Two Renegades

A man recounts a story from his visit to Panama.
Date: August 1904
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Ruler of Men (open access)

A Ruler of Men

Short story about two old friends meeting in New York.
Date: August 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Fifth Wheel (open access)

The Fifth Wheel

Short story set in New York
Date: August 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Poor Rule (open access)

A Poor Rule

Short story set in Texas
Date: August 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter from Witter Bynner to Mary (open access)

Letter from Witter Bynner to Mary

Correspondence regarding a book order from Doubleday.
Date: August 23, 1951
Creator: Bynner, Witter
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Effie Roach Hofer Autograph Album] (open access)

[Effie Roach Hofer Autograph Album]

Autograph album belonging to Effie Roach Hofer. It includes page a 10-line verse poem entitled "Poetry," with drawing of fiddle and pointing finger and hand, signed "W.S. Porter/Secretary Jolly Brothers."
Date: August 2, 1885
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rus in Urbe (open access)

Rus in Urbe

Short story about a press-agent in New York.
Date: August 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Snow Man (open access)

The Snow Man

Short story set in Colorado in the winter. "Editorial note.--Before the recent fatal illness of William Sydney Porter...this American master of short-story writing had begun for Hampton's Magazine the story printed below...When he realized that he could do no more...O. Henry told in detail the remainder of "The Snow Man" to Harris Merton Lyon..."
Date: August 1910
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tobin's Palm (open access)

Tobin's Palm

Short story about a boy who gets his palm read.
Date: August 1903
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jane Smoot to Trueman O’Quinn] (open access)

[Letter from Jane Smoot to Trueman O’Quinn]

Letter referencing photograph of Lawrence Smoot at age twelve (12) that he witnessed the marriage of William Sydney Porter and Athol Estes.
Date: August 17, 1975
Creator: Smoot, Jane
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History