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O. HENRY BIOGRAPHY
the flaming oven in the doctor's backyard. Though his
books were his tools, he was often heard to say that he
regretted most of all the loss of his private papers which
constituted a sort of first-hand history of the times.
IIad these been preserved Doctor Caldwell's name would
probably appear in every record of the original sources of
colonial and Revolutionary history, while now it appears
in none.
His life was written eighteen years after his death
by Dr. Eli W. Caruthers, and he appears as one of
the characters in at least two historical novels, "Ala-
mance; or, the Great and Final Experiment," written
by Dr. Calvin II. Wiley, in 1847, and "The Master
of the Red Buck and the Bay Doe," a recent work by
Mr. William Lauric Hill. Doctor Wiley's book is
mentioned by IMr. William Dean Howells as having
"bewitched " him in his boyhood:*
At nine years of age he [Mr. Howells] read the history of Greece,
and the history of Rome, and he knew that Goldsmith wrote them.
One night his father told the boys all about Don Quixote; and a
little w ile after he gave my boy the book. IIe read it over and
over asain; but he did not suppose it was a novel. It was his
elder brother who read novels, and a novel was like "Handy
Andy," or "harry Aorrequer," or the "Bride of Lammermoor."
IIis Irot her had another novel which they preferred to either;
it was in IIarper's old "Library of Select Novels," and was called
"Alanainnc; or, the Great and Final Experiment," and it was about
the life of some sort of community in North Carolina. It be-
*See "A Boy's Town," pages 21-22._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/m1/70/: 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.