O. Henry Letters, . 1884

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O. Henry Letters, . 1884

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O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was a short-story writer. The collection contains two letters from Henry to North Carolina friends while he was living on a ranch in La Salle County, Tex., enclosing six pencil drawings of humorous incidents he had observed, with comments.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Henry, O., 1862-1910

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O. Henry was born as William Sydney Porter on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro, NC. He worked as a pharmacist in Greensboro and moved to Texas for his health in 1882 where he became a ranch hand. Porter relocated to Austin, TX and worked as a pharmacists, served as draftsman at the Texas General Land Office, a teller at First National Bank of Austin, and started a humorous weekly magazine, The Rolling Stone. He also wrote for the Houston Post. In 1898 Porter was found guilty of embezzlement from...