Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Special Collections of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University
Collection No. 4279.
William Sydney Porter Papers, 1905-1953.
12 items.
Greensboro (Guilford County), N.C.
A letter from O. Henry, Porter's pseudonym as a writer, to George Rathborne, explaining how the name "Rathborne" happened to be chosen by O. Henry for a character in a story; and letters addressed to Henry Wysham Lanier, secretary of Doubleday, Page & Co., on matters of publication, financial and business affairs, and the author's health. [In part published by Clarence Gohdes, "Some Letters by O. Henry," South Atlantic Quarterly, XXXIII (Jan., 1939), 31-39.] Also a report on reminiscences of Porter by a Mr. Saunders.
O. Henry Letters Available at Duke University
Sydney Porter to George Rathborne - May 19, 1905
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - January 1, 1909
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - February 13, 1909
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - March 16, 1909
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - Tuesday 19th [circa 1909]
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - [circa 1909]
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - April 6, 1909
Sydney Porter to Henry Wysham Lanier - April 9, 1909
Sydney Porter to Col. Henry Peyton Steger - Nov. 5, 1909
Roderick Starnes to Rev. John W. Meyer - December 3, 1960
(Concerning young Porter's camping trip at Pilot Mountain, NC in 1879).
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