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O. IIENRY BIOGRAPIIY
which lie received a conspicuous place in the Patriot."
In 182 Daniel R. Goodloe writes to Lyndon Swaim
from Washington, D. C.:
William Swaim in 1830 published a pamphlet entitled "An
Address to the People of North Carolina on the Evils of Slavery"
with mottoes in Latin and English. The imprint is "William
Sw -aim, Printer, Greensboro, N. C. 1830." Some twenty-seven
or thirty years ago the abolitionists of New York republished, I
suppose, a facsimile of the original, and Ir. Spofford, the librarian
of Congress, has procured a copy. He asked me who was the
author, as it is a rule with him to give, as far as possible, the name
of every author. I should have quoted in the title that it purports
to be w written and published "By the Friends of Liberty and
Equality." William Swaim introduces the address with a few
words over his signature, stating that it emanates from the "Board
of lManagcrs of the Ialnumission Society of North Carolina."
I w ill thank you to write me all you know of this amanumis,ion
Society and of the authorship of this pamphlet. The pamphlet
does great honor to all concerned with it, and their names should
be known in this day of universal liberty.
O. Henry's grandmother, who married Lyndon Swaim
after the death of her husband William Swaim, was Abia
Shirley (or Abiah Shirly), daughter of Daniel Shirley,
a wealthy planter, of Princess Anne County, Virginia.
"The original Abia Shirley," O. Henry once remarked
to an intimate friend in New York, "was related to
the House of Stuart but she ran off with a Catholic
priest." Where O. Henry learned this bit of ancestral
history I do not know; but that the Shirley family
to which his grandmother traced her lineage was~I I
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Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924. O. Henry Biography, book, 1916; Garden City, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139384/m1/36/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.