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Bulger's Friend (open access)

Bulger's Friend

Short story about an old man who joins the Salvation Army.
Date: December 26, 1901
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Trimmed Lamp (open access)

The Trimmed Lamp

This work is O. Henry's second collection of short stories set in New York City.
Date: 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Voice of the City (open access)

The Voice of the City

This is O. Henry's third collection of short stories set in New York City.
Date: 1908
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to Mrs. Lacey] (open access)

[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to Mrs. Lacey]

Letter regarding raising capital for invention by Forney Lacey that would be placed on telephones to prevent the spread of disease.
Date: May 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to Jeemo] (open access)

[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to Jeemo]

O. Henry inviting "Jeemo" to visit New York.
Date: June 3, 1905
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copies of unsigned publishing contracts] (open access)

[Copies of unsigned publishing contracts]

Two unsigned copies of publishing contracts by two different publishing houses: H. H. McClure and Co., and Phillips Publishing Co.
Date: October 21, 1907
Creator: H. H. McClure and Co.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Colonel Seibel from William Sydney Porter] (open access)

[Letter to Colonel Seibel from William Sydney Porter]

Letter from William Sydney Porter to Colonel Seibel discussing "The Last Edition" and the theater.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Studio portrait of O. Henry

O. Henry sitting forward in chair.
Date: 1906
Creator: Imhof, J. A.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cabbages and Kings (open access)

Cabbages and Kings

This work is O. Henry's first published volume and is considered to be his only novel. The plot is composed of several short stories, which were inspired by the author's six-month stay in Honduras in the late 1890s.
Date: 1904
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
A Municipal Report (open access)

A Municipal Report

Short story set in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date: November 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Whirligig of Life (open access)

The Whirligig of Life

Short story about a couple's divorce and remarriage.
Date: July 1903
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Phonograph and the Graft (open access)

The Phonograph and the Graft

Story in which two grifters decide to introduce the phonograph to South America.
Date: February 1903
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
The Fourth in Salvador (open access)

The Fourth in Salvador

Short story about a man celebrating July Fourth in South America.
Date: July 1903
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Pimienta Pancakes (open access)

The Pimienta Pancakes

A cow camp cook tells a story about a pancake recipe.
Date: December 1903
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Prose fiction
System: The Portal to Texas History
Options (open access)

Options

A collection of short stories based in various regions of North and Central America.
Date: 1909
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to F.M. Maddox] (open access)

[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to F.M. Maddox]

Handwritten letter from O. Henry asking F.M. Maddox to loan him $75 to relocate to New York City from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Date: March 18, 1902
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten letter from F.M. Maddox to W.S. Porter (O. Henry)] (open access)

[Handwritten letter from F.M. Maddox to W.S. Porter (O. Henry)]

F. M. Maddox's reply to O. Henry's request for Maddox to lend him seventy-five dollars. Maddox asks if it's possible for O. Henry to get the money from his friend in New York.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Maddox, F. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Colonel Seibel from William Sydney Porter] (open access)

[Letter to Colonel Seibel from William Sydney Porter]

Letter from William Sydney Porter to Colonel Seibel discussing "The Last Edition" and the theater.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Letter from O. Henry to "Jeems" (open access)

Letter from O. Henry to "Jeems"

Letter, manuscript, “Dear Jeems,” dated Thursday, 1907, New York, from O. Henry. Letter is facetious in spelling and content.
Date: 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Contract between H.H. McClure and Sydney Porter (open access)

Contract between H.H. McClure and Sydney Porter

Contract between H.H. McClure and Sydney Porter, signed by both parties, dated 21 October 1907.
Date: October 21, 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to H. H. McClure] (open access)

[Handwritten letter from O. Henry to H. H. McClure]

Letter from Porter to H. H. McClure asking for an advance to pay for his daughter's private school tuition.
Date: October 6, 1907
Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History