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[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

Item Type: Book

Athol Estes Porter Autograph book

Autograph album belonging to Athol Estes, includes 10-line two stanza poem. First letters of first five lines acrostically spell Athol (first letters of lines) and Estes (last letters of lines). Signed "W.S.P."

Date: September 25, 1885

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Book

[Cancelled Checks to W. S. Porter]

Cancelled checks written by Maddox Bros. & Anderson all made out to W. S. Porter. Some are endorsed on the back by Porter.

Date: 1886

Item Type: Text

[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm]

Letter detailing programme for a musical event to be held on October 1, 1886, in which Belle Palm is on the program and O. Henry is the Musical Director.

Date: September 23, 1886

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Letter

[Lobby of First National Bank, Austin, Texas]

Photograph of the lobby of First National Bank, including the bank teller window behind a grill. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) is the teller. Another man stands behind the front counter, one is seated in back, and a customer is at the teller window. The man behind the open counter is listed as Brackenridge.

Date: [1890,1900]

Item Type: Photograph

Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking

Short story about a "professional tramp" in New Orleans.

Date: December 1899

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Georgia's Ruling

Short story about the General Land Office in Austin, Texas. Story was published while O. Henry was in prison in Columbus, Ohio.

Date: June 30, 1900

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Money Maze

A short story set in Central America. This story is said to have served as the literary foundation of "Cabbages and Kings."

Date: May 1901

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

A Blackjack Bargainer

Short story about a family feud.

Date: August 1901

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Rouge et Noire

A short story about the banana trade in Central America based on O. Henry's experiences in Honduras in the late 1890s. This is perhaps the first instance of O. Henry's use of the term "banana republic."

Date: December 1901

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Bulger's Friend

Short story about an old man who joins the Salvation Army.

Date: December 26, 1901

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

The Flag Paramount

A short story set in Central America and based on O. Henry's experiences in Honduras in the late 1890s.

Date: January 1902

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

The Lotos and the Bottle

Short story about a consul for the United States.

Date: January 1902

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

The Passing of Black Eagle

A short story set in Texas.

Date: March 1902

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

[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

Item Type: Letter

The Marionettes

Short story about a doctor who leads a double-life as a burglar.

Date: April 1902

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

[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.

Item Type: Letter