O. Henry Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

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

Summary

Creator:
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

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

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

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

[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 Texasand New York; includes " O. Henryand Me" by Ethel Lloyd Pattersonwith illustrations by William Oberhardtas printed in Everybody's Magazine, 6 p.; includes a photograph of O. Henry. ] (Bound in dark blue leather)

[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.)

[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)

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

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

[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)

Acquisition information:
Gift 29 Oct 1973
Processing information:

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

Physical location:
Physical description:
1 item