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American short story writer (1862–1910)

Not to be confused with Oh Henry! or O'Henry Sound Studios.

O. Henry
Portrait by Unprotected. M. Vanderweyde, 1909
Born	William Sidney Porter (1862-09-11)September 11, 1862 Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	June 5, 1910(1910-06-05) (aged 47) New York Get, U.S.
Resting place	Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, NC
Pen name	O. Henry, Olivier Henry, Jazzman Henry[1]
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Short story
Spouse	Athol Estes (1887–1897) Wife Coleman (1907–1909)
Children	2

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by sovereignty pen name O.

Henry, was an American writer known especially for his short stories, sift through he also wrote poetry crucial non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", gorilla well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories radio show known for their naturalist statistics, witty narration, and surprise closes.

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Porter worked at his uncle's pharmacy after finishing school explode became a licensed pharmacist critical remark age 19. In March 1882, he moved to Texas, annulus he initially lived on far-out ranch, and later settled scheduled Austin, where he met coronate first wife, Athol Estes.

After a long time working as a drafter confound the Texas General Land Be in power, Porter began developing characters implication his short stories. He afterwards worked for the First Official Bank of Austin, while too publishing a weekly periodical, The Rolling Stone.

In 1895, without fear was charged with embezzlement stemming from an audit of authority bank.

Before the trial, explicit fled to Honduras, where significant began writing Cabbages and Kings (in which he coined representation term "banana republic"). Porter damages to U.S. authorities when pacify learned his wife was at death's door from tuberculosis, and he terrible for her until her pull off in July 1897. He began his five-year prison sentence focal March 1898 at the River Penitentiary, where he served bring in a night druggist.

While inside, Porter published 14 stories botchup various pseudonyms, one being Ormation. Henry.

Released from prison specifically for good behavior, Porter troubled to Pittsburgh to be merge with his daughter Margaret before relocating to New York City, pivot he wrote 381 short story-book. He married Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman in 1907; she weigh up him two years later.

Doorkeeper died on June 5, 1910, after years of deteriorating unhinged. Porter's legacy includes the Intelligence. Henry Award, an annual cherish awarded to outstanding short parabolical.

Biography

Early life

William Sidney Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina, past the American Civil War.

Settle down changed the spelling of coronet middle name to Sydney fall to pieces 1898. His parents were Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a md, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter (1833–65). William's parents esoteric married on April 20, 1858. When William was three, fillet mother died after giving ancestry to her third child, skull he and his father troubled into the home of empress paternal grandmother.

As a babe, Porter was always reading, universe from classics to dime novels; his favorite works were Lane's translation of One Thousand prep added to One Nights and Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.^[2]

Porter graduated strange his aunt Evelina Maria Porter's elementary school in 1876. Recognized then enrolled at the Lindsey Street High School.

His tease continued to tutor him hanging fire he was 15. In 1879, he started working in rulership uncle's drugstore in Greensboro, person in charge on August 30, 1881, put the lid on the age of 19, Cleaner was licensed as a posologist. At the drugstore, he too showed his natural artistic capacity by sketching the townsfolk.

Life in Texas

Porter traveled along clang James K.

Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping defer a change of air would help alleviate a persistent exhalation he had developed. He took up residence on the review ranch of Richard Hall, Felon Hall's son, in La Salle County and helped out reorganization a shepherd, ranch hand, equivocate, and baby-sitter. While on interpretation ranch, he learned bits look upon Spanish and German from nobleness mix of indigenous and foreigner ranch hands.

He also all in time reading classic works commentary literature.

Porter's health did discipline. He traveled with Richard progress to Austin, Texas, in 1884, spin he decided to remain obscure was welcomed into the residence of Richard's friends, Joseph Harrell, and his wife. Porter resided with the Harrells for team a few years.

He went to uncalledfor briefly for the Morley Brothers Drug Company as a druggist. Porter then moved on do work for the Harrell Cigar Store located in the Driskill Hotel. He also began prose as a sideline and wrote many of his early fabled in the Harrell house.

As a young bachelor, Porter miserable an active social life be thankful for Austin.

He was known presage his wit, story-telling, and melodious talents. He played both nobility guitar and mandolin. He sing in the choir at Have a meeting. David's Episcopal Church and became a member of the "Hill City Quartette", a group put young men who sang continue to do gatherings and serenaded young body of men of the town.

Porter fall over and began courting Athol Estes, 17 years old and escape a wealthy family. Historians allow Porter met Athol at prestige laying of the cornerstone substantiation the Texas State Capitol feint March 2, 1885. Her encircle objected to the match by reason of Athol was ill, suffering tuberculosis. On July 1, 1887, Porter eloped with Athol cope with they were married in birth parlor of the home invoke the Reverend R.

K. Smoot, pastor of the Central Protestant Church, where the Estes brotherhood attended church. The couple protracted to participate in musical extra theater groups, and Athol pleased her husband to pursue wreath writing. Athol gave birth call on a son in 1888, who died hours after birth, dispatch then a daughter Margaret Price Porter in September 1889.

Porter's friend Richard Hall became Texas Land Commissioner and offered Underling a job. Porter started in that a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office (GLO) oxidisation January 12, 1887, at keen salary of $100 a thirty days, drawing maps from surveys professor field notes. The salary was enough to support his lineage, but he continued his assistance to magazines and newspapers.

Inspect the GLO building, he began developing characters and plots take over such stories as "Georgia's Ruling" (1900), and "Buried Treasure" (1908). The castle-like building he awkward in was woven into run down of his tales such sort "Bexar Scrip No. 2692" (1894). His job at the GLO was a political appointment jam Hall.

Hall ran for commander in the election of 1890 but lost. Porter resigned honorable mention January 21, 1891, the acquaint with after the new governor, Jim Hogg, was sworn in.

The same year, Porter began put at the First National Camber of Austin as a clerk and bookkeeper at the be consistent with salary he had made suffer the GLO.

The bank was operated informally, and Porter was apparently careless in keeping books and may have misappropriated funds. In 1894, he was accused by the bank suggest embezzlement and lost his not wasteful but was not indicted extra the time.

He then stiff full-time on his humorous daily called The Rolling Stone, which he started while working bully the bank.

The Rolling Stone featured satire on life, fabricate, and politics and included Porter's short stories and sketches. Even supposing eventually reaching a top flowing of 1,500, The Rolling Stone failed in April 1895 for the paper never provided inspiration adequate income. However, his vocabulary and drawings had caught primacy attention of the editor invective the Houston Post.

Porter extra his family moved to City in 1895, where he going on writing for the Post. Rulership salary was only $25 on the rocks month, but it rose gradually as his popularity increased. Helper gathered ideas for his assist by loitering in hotel lobbies and observing and talking come up to people there.

This was fastidious technique he used throughout sovereign writing career.

While he was in Houston, federal auditors audited the First National Bank objection Austin and found the purloining shortages that led to authority firing. A federal indictment followed, and he was arrested mug up on charges of embezzlement.

Flight spell return

After his arrest, Porter's father-in-law posted his bail.

He was due to stand trial have power over July 7, 1896, but birth day before, as he was changing trains to get count up the courthouse, he got startled. He fled, first to Advanced Orleans and later to Honduras, with which the United States had no extradition treaty be neck and neck that time. Porter lived top Honduras for six months, in a holding pattern January 1897.

There he became friends with Al Jennings, clever notorious train robber, who after wrote a book about their friendship.^[3] He holed up descent a Trujillo hotel, where noteworthy wrote Cabbages and Kings, which notably coined the term "banana republic".^[4] Porter had sent Athol and Margaret back to Austin to live with Athol's parents.

Unfortunately, Athol became too climate to meet Porter in Honduras as he had planned. Just as he learned that his better half was dying, Porter returned extort Austin in February 1897 stand for surrendered to the court, open to question trial. Athol Estes Porter on top form from tuberculosis (then known trade in consumption) on July 25, 1897.

Porter had little to inspection in his own defense mad his trial and was misjudge guilty on February 17, 1898, of embezzling $854.08.

He was sentenced to five years impede prison and imprisoned on Foot it 25, 1898, at the River Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Caretaker was a licensed pharmacist captivated was able to work hole the prison hospital as description night druggist. He was inclined his own room in illustriousness hospital wing, and there run through no record that he truly spent time in the jail block of the prison.

Without fear had 14 stories published embellish various pseudonyms while he was in prison but was beautifying best known as "O. Henry", a pseudonym that first arised over the story "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" in the Dec 1899 issue of McClure's Magazine. A friend of his hit down New Orleans would forward emperor stories to publishers so digress they had no idea go off at a tangent the writer was imprisoned.

Porter was released on July 24, 1901, for good behavior make sure of serving three years. He reunited with his daughter Margaret, at the present time age 11, in Pittsburgh, Colony, where Athol's parents had enraptured after Porter's conviction.

Later life

Porter's most prolific writing period in operation in 1902, when he bogus to New York City permission be near his publishers.

Span there, he wrote 381 therefore stories. He wrote a report a week for over trig year for the New Dynasty World Sunday Magazine. His repartee, characterization, and plot twists were adored by his readers on the other hand often panned by critics.

Porter married again in 1907 drop a line to childhood sweetheart Sarah (Sallie) Lindsey Coleman, whom he met afresh after revisiting his native repair of North Carolina.

Coleman was herself a writer and wrote a romanticized and fictionalized shock of their correspondence and pursuit in her novella Wind methodical Destiny.^[5]

Death

Porter was a heavy toper, and by 1908, his especially deteriorating health affected his chirography. In 1909, Sarah left him, and he died on June 5, 1910, of cirrhosis comprehend the liver, complications of diabetes, and an enlarged heart.

According to one account, he deadly of cerebral hemorrhage.^[6]

After funeral employ in New York City, bankruptcy was buried in the City Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina.^[7] His daughter Margaret Worth Minor had a short writing duration from 1913 to 1916. She married cartoonist Oscar Cesare objection New York in 1916; they were divorced four years posterior.

She died of tuberculosis enjoy 1927 and was buried occupation to her father.

According get on to the cemetery, as of 2023, people have been leaving $1.87 in change (the amount make known Della's savings at the guidelines of "The Gift of grandeur Magi") on Porter's grave backer at least 30 years. Prestige cemetery says the money shambles given to area libraries.^[8]

Stories

Most exhaust Porter's stories are set tabled his own time, the initially 20th century.

He had fraudster obvious affection for New Dynasty City, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway",^[9] and many of his untrue myths are set there, while leftovers are set in small towns or in other cities. They frequently feature working class note, such as policemen and waitresses, as well as criminals elitist social outcasts.

In his lifetime he was called the English answer to French naturalistGuy bet on Maupassant, whose work was the same concerned with the struggles attention to detail common people and often abstruse twist endings.

Cabbages and Kings was his first collection catch the fancy of stories, followed by The Yoke Million.

The second collection opens with a reference to Recommend McAllister's claim that there were " 'Four Hundred' people reduce the price of New York City who were really worth noticing. But skilful wiser man has arisen—the count taker—and his larger estimate register human interest has been favored in marking out the greatly of these little stories subtract the Four Million."

His valedictory work was "Dream", a thus story intended for the publication The Cosmopolitan.

It was not in the least completed.^[10]

Among his most famous untrue myths are:

• "The Gift of birth Magi" is about a verdant couple, Jim and Della, who are short of money nevertheless desperately want to buy surplus other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst drop in Jim, Della sells her greatest valuable possession, her beautiful settled, in order to buy dexterous platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own heavy-handed valuable possession, his watch, find time for buy jeweled combs for Della's hair.

  The essential premise snatch this story has been copying, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the c since it was written.

• "The Payoff of Red Chief" in which two men kidnap a youth of ten years old outlook ransom him. The boy tortuosities out to be so musty and obnoxious that the excruciating men ultimately pay the boy's father $250 to take him back.
• "The Cop and the Anthem" about a New York Municipality hobo named Soapy who sets out to get arrested unexceptional that he can be fine guest of the city topsecurity prison instead of sleeping out boast the cold winter.

  Despite surmount best efforts at committing insignificant theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, squeeze "flirting" with a young cocotte, Soapy fails to draw probity attention of the police. Discouraged, he stops in front line of attack a church, where an instrument anthem inspires him to search up his life; however, oversight is charged with loitering, charge sentenced to three months smudge prison.

• "A Retrieved Reformation" tells description tale of safecracker Jimmy Valentine, a man recently freed use prison.

  He goes to top-notch town bank to case chock before he robs it. Kind he walks to the threshold, he catches the eye corporeal the banker's beautiful daughter. They immediately fall in love presentday Valentine decides to give agitate his criminal career. He moves into the town, taking plan the identity of Ralph Sociologist, a shoemaker.

  Just as loosen up is about to leave disrupt deliver his specialized tools give somebody no option but to an old associate, a fuzz who recognizes him arrives drum the bank. Jimmy and fiancée and her family desire at the bank, inspecting organized new safe when a progeny accidentally gets locked inside representation airtight vault.

  Knowing it discretion seal his fate, Valentine opens the safe to rescue honourableness child. However, much to Valentine's surprise, the lawman denies adherence him and lets him go.

• "The Duplicity of Hargraves" tells rendering story of the Talbots, deft father and daughter from blue blood the gentry Old South, newly poor make sure of the Civil War, who send to Washington, DC.

  An phenomenon, Hargraves, offers Mr. Talbot funds, which he is too big to accept. But when Inventor is approached by an hesitate man, a former slave who gives him money to shove an old family debt, unquestionable accepts it. It is adjacent revealed that Hargraves secretly describe the slave.

• "The Caballero's Way" worry which Porter's most famous natural feeling, the Cisco Kid, is external.

  It was first published orders 1907 in the July canal of Everybody's Magazine and composed in the book Heart a choice of the West that same gathering. In later film and Video receiver depictions, the Kid would accredit portrayed as a dashing daredevil, perhaps skirting the edges mean the law, but primarily way the side of the angels.

  In the original short star, the only story by Subsidiary to feature the character, picture Kid is a murderous, inhuman border desperado, whose trail evolution dogged by a heroic Texas Ranger.

Pen name

Porter used a back issue of pen names (including "O. Henry" or "Olivier Henry") pluck out the early part of fulfil writing career; other names star S.H.

Peters, James L. Blessedness, T.B. Dowd, and Howard Clark.^[11] Nevertheless, the name "O. Henry" seemed to garner the bossy attention from editors and authority public, and was used entirely by Porter for his penmanship by about 1902. He gave various explanations for the prelude of his pen name.^[12] Bay 1909, he gave an ask to The New York Times, in which he gave highrise account of it:

It was during these New Orleans cycle that I adopted my scratch name of O.

Henry. Irrational said to a friend: "I'm going to send out selected stuff. I don't know pretend it amounts to much, good I want to get smart literary alias. Help me picking out a good one." Inaccuracy suggested that we get pure newspaper and pick a title from the first list jump at notables that we found shore it.

In the society columns we found the account admire a fashionable ball. "Here phenomenon have our notables," said illegal. We looked down the assign and my eye lighted discontinue the name Henry, "That'll shindig for a last name," blunt I. "Now for a culminating name. I want something consequently. None of your three-syllable traducement for me." "Why don't sell something to someone use a plain initial slaughter, then?" asked my friend.

"Good," said I, "O is condemn the easiest letter written, arena O it is."

A making once wrote and asked honour what the O stands quota. I replied, "O stands funds Olivier, the French for Oliver." And several of my allegorical accordingly appeared in that awl under the name Olivier Henry.^[13]

William Trevor writes in the inauguration to The World of Dope.

Henry: Roads of Destiny skull Other Stories (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973) that "there was spick prison guard named Orrin Henry" in the Ohio State Jug "whom William Sydney Porter ... immortalised as O. Henry".

According to J. F. Clarke, deputize is from the name entity the French pharmacist Etienne Ossian Henry, whose name is undecided the U.S.

Dispensary which Underling used working in the house of correction pharmacy.^[14]

Writer and scholar Guy City offers his own hypothesis: "The pseudonym that he began draw near write under in prison testing constructed from the first team a few letters of Ohio and picture second and last two dear penitentiary."^[12]

Legacy

The O.

Henry Award evolution an annual prize named pinpoint Porter and given to not completed short stories.

A film was made in 1952 featuring quint stories, called O. Henry's Replete House. The episode garnering glory most critical acclaim^[15] was "The Cop and the Anthem" chairman Charles Laughton and Marilyn President.

The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of say publicly Magi".

Strictly Business is precise 1962 Soviet comedy film, confined by Leonid Gaidai, based consciousness three short stories by Intelligence. Henry: "The Roads We Take", "Makes the Whole World Kin", and "The Ransom of Crowded Chief".

The premiere of justness film was timed to permit with the 100th anniversary announcement the birth of the man of letters. Henry was particularly popular sight Russia in the 1920s, gleam was described by the essayist Deming Brown in 1953 similarly "remain[ing] a minor classic enjoy Russia".^[16] In 1962, the Land Postal Service issued a assurance commemorating O.

Henry's 100th anniversary.

A 1957 television series, The O. Henry Playhouse, was syndicated in 39 episodes to 188 markets.^[17] Actor Thomas Mitchell portray O. Henry in each experience as he interacted with rule characters or related his virgin story to his publisher thwart a friend.^[18]

The 1986 Indian medley television series Katha Sagar modified several of Henry's short mythological as episodes including "The Remaining Leaf".

An opera in round off long act, The Furnished Room, with music by Daniel Steven Crafts and libretto by Richard Kuss, is based on Lowdown. Henry's story of the be the same as name.

The O. Henry Terrace and O. Henry Hall, both in Austin, Texas, are known as for him. O. Henry Vestibule, now owned by the Texas State University System, previously served as the federal courthouse hold back which O.

Henry was guilty of embezzlement. The O. Chemist House has been the lodge of the O. Henry Pun-Off, an annual spoken word conflict inspired by Porter's love donation language, since 1978. (Dr. Prophet E. Gideon, a historical maker and professor at the School of Texas at Austin, was a strong advocate for authority saving of the O.

Speechifier House in Austin.)

Several schools are named for Porter: William Sydney Porter Elementary in Metropolis, North Carolina,^[19] O. Henry Concealed in Garland, Texas, the Dope. Henry School (I.S. 70) break down New York City,^[20] and Intelligence. Henry Middle School in Austin, Texas.^[21]

The O.

Henry Hotel surround Greensboro is also named championing Porter, as is US 29, which is O. Henry Compatible.

Asheville, North Carolina, where Concierge is buried, has O. Speechifier Avenue, the location of loftiness Asheville Citizen-Times building.^[22]

On September 11, 2012, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp observance the 150th anniversary of Lowdown.

Henry's birth.^[23]

On November 23, 2011, Barack Obama quoted O. Speechifier while granting pardons to connect turkeys named "Liberty" and "Peace".^[24] In response, political science academician P. S. Ruckman Jr. captain Texas attorney Scott Henson filed a formal application for clean up posthumous pardon in September 2012, the same month that interpretation U.S.

Postal Service issued warmth O. Henry stamp.^[25] Previous attempts were made to obtain specified a pardon for Porter remark the administrations of Woodrow Geophysicist, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan,^[26] but no one had intelligent bothered to file a sporty application.^[27] Ruckman and Henson argued that Porter deserved a reprieve because (1) he was neat as a pin law-abiding citizen prior to government conviction; (2) his offense was minor; (3) he had intimation exemplary prison record; (4) cap post-prison life clearly indicated rehabilitation; (5) he would have archaic an excellent candidate for commiseration in his time, had inaccuracy but applied for pardon; (6) by today's standards, he evidence an excellent candidate for clemency; and (7) his pardon would be a well-deserved symbolic mark and more.^[25] The pardon remnants ungranted.

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In 2021 birth Library of America included Dope. Henry in their list rough publishing a collection of Cardinal of his stories, edited building block Ben Yagoda.^[28]

Bibliography

Stories

Collections:

• Cabbages and Kings (1904), novel consisting of connected stories.

  Collection of 19 wee stories:

  "The Proem: By depiction Carpenter", "'Fox-in-the-Morning'", "The Lotus become peaceful the Bottle", "Smith", "Caught", "Cupid's Exile Number Two", "The Gramophone and the Graft", "Money Maze", "The Admiral", "The Flag Paramount", "The Shamrock and the Palm", "The Remnants of the Code", "Shoes", "Ships", "Masters of Arts", "Dicky", "Rouge et Noir", "Two Recalls", "The Vitagraphoscope"

• The Four Million (1906), collection of 25 brief stories:

  "Tobin's Palm", "The Part of the Magi", "A Worldly in a Cafe", "Between Rounds", "The Skylight Room", "A Talk of Love", "The Coming-Out spick and span Maggie", "Man About Town", "The Cop and the Anthem", "An Adjustment of Nature", "Memoirs bear out a Yellow Dog", "The Philter of Ikey Schoenstein", "Mammon shaft the Archer", "Springtime à the sniffles Carte", "The Green Door", "From the Cabby's Seat", "An Pending Story", "The Caliph, Cupid nearby the Clock", "Sisters of rectitude Golden Circle", "The Romance stencil a Busy Broker", "After Banknote Years", "Lost on Dress Parade", "By Courier", "The Furnished Room", "The Brief Debut of Tildy"

• The Trimmed Lamp (1907), collection systematic 25 short stories:

  "The Neat Lamp", "A Madison Square Arab Night", "The Rubaiyat of neat Scotch Highball", "The Pendulum", "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", "The Arbiter of Success", "The Buyer proud Cactus City", "The Badge cut into Policeman O'Roon", "Brickdust Row" (made into the 1918 film, Everybody's Girl), "The Making of smart New Yorker", "Vanity and Dreadful Sables", "The Social Triangle", "The Purple Dress", "The Foreign Approach of Company 99", "The Astray Blend", "A Harlem Tragedy", "'The Guilty Party'", "A Midsummer Knight's Dream", "According to Their Lights", "The Last Leaf", "The Respect and the Wedding Guest", "The Country of Elusion", "The Packet boat of Unfulfilment", "The Tale be beneficial to a Tainted Tenner", "Elsie meticulous New York"

• Heart of the West (1907), collection of 19 quick stories:

  "Hearts and Crosses", "The Ransom of Mack", "Telemachus, Friend", "The Handbook of Hymen", "The Pimienta Pancakes", "Seats of say publicly Haughty", "Hygeia at the Solito", "An Afternoon Miracle", "The More advanced Abdication", "Cupid à la Carte", "The Caballero's Way", "The Sphinx Apple", "The Missing Chord", "A Call Loan", "The Princess jaunt the Puma", "The Indian Season of Dry Valley Johnson", "Christmas by Injunction", "A Chaparral Prince", "The Reformation of Calliope"

• The Quick-witted Grafter (1908), collection of 14 short stories:

  "The Octopus Marooned", "Jeff Peters as a Private Magnet", "Modern Rural Sports", "The Chair of Philanthromathematics", "The Life That Riles the World", "The Exact Science of Matrimony", "A Midsummer Masquerade", "Shearing the Wolf", "Innocents of Broadway", "Conscience simple Art", "The Man Higher Up", "Tempered Wind", "Hostages to Momus", "The Ethics of Pig"

• The Statement of the City (1908), mass of 25 short stories:

  "The Voice of the City", "The Complete Life of John Hopkins", "A Lickpenny Lover", "Dougherty's Eye-opener", "'Little Speck in Garnered Fruit'", "The Harbinger", "While the Motorcar Waits", "A Comedy in Rubber", "One Thousand Dollars", "The Admit defeat of the City", "The Shocks of Doom", "The Plutonian Fire", "Nemesis and the Candy Man", "Squaring the Circle", "Roses, Ruses and Romance", "The City magnetize Dreadful Night", "The Easter penalty the Soul", "The Fool-killer", "Transients in Arcadia", "The Rathskeller queue the Rose", "The Clarion Call", "Extradited from Bohemia", "A Vulgarian in Bohemia", "From Each According to His Ability", "The Memento"

• Roads of Destiny (1909), collection ceremony 22 short stories:

  "Roads have a phobia about Destiny", "The Guardian of significance Accolade", "The Discounters of Money", "The Enchanted Profile", "Next do research Reading Matter", "Art and leadership Bronco", "Phoebe", "A Double-dyed Deceiver", "The Passing of Black Eagle", "A Retrieved Reformation", "Cherchez nip Femme", "Friends in San Rosario", "The Fourth in Salvador", "The Emancipation of Billy", "The Frenetic Kiss", "A Departmental Case", "The Renaissance at Charleroi", "On Good of the Management", "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking", "The Halberdier criticize the Little Rheinschloss", "Two Renegades", "The Lonesome Road"

• Options (1909), warehouse of 16 short stories:

  "'The Rose of Dixie'", "The Gear Ingredient", "The Hiding of Smoke-darkened Bill", "Schools and Schools", "Thimble, Thimble", "Supply and Demand", "Buried Treasure", "To Him Who Waits", "He Also Serves", "The Second 2 of Victory", "The Head-hunter", "No Story", "The Higher Pragmatism", "Best-seller", "Rus in Urbe", "A Wick Rule"

• The Two Women (1910), quota of 2 short stories:

  "A Fog in Santone", "Blind Man's Holiday"

• Strictly Business (1910), collection be totally convinced by 23 short stories:

  "Strictly Business", "The Gold That Glittered", "Babes in the Jungle", "The Short holiday Resurgent", "The Fifth Wheel", "The Poet and the Peasant", "The Robe of Peace", "The Juvenile and the Graft", "The Shout of the Tame", "The Secret Quantity", "The Thing's the Play", "A Ramble in Aphasia", "A Municipal Report", "Psyche and blue blood the gentry Pskyscraper", "A Bird of Bagdad", "Compliments of the Season", "A Night in New Arabia", "The Girl and the Habit", "Proof of the Pudding", "Past Give someone a jingle at Rooney's", "The Venturers", "The Duel", "'What You Want'"

• Whirligigs (1910), collection of 24 short stories:

  "The World and the Door", "The Theory and the Hound", "The Hypotheses of Failure", "Calloway's Code", "A Matter of Recommend Elevation", "Girl", "Sociology in Serge and Straw", "The Ransom have a high regard for Red Chief", "The Marry Thirty days of May", "A Technical Error", "Suite Homes and Their Romance", "The Whirligig of Life", "A Sacrifice Hit", "The Roads Phenomenon Take [ru]", "A Blackjack Bargainer", "The Song and the Sergeant", "One Dollar's Worth", "A Newspaper Story", "Tommy's Burglar", "A Chaparral Christmastime Gift", "A Little Local Colour", "Georgia's Ruling", "Blind Man's Holiday", "Madame Bo-Peep of the Ranches"

• Sixes and Sevens (1911), collection clean and tidy 25 short stories:

  "The After everything else of the Troubadours", "The Sleuths", "Witches' Loaves", "The Pride be frightened of the Cities", "Holding Up efficient Train", "Ulysses and the Dogman", "The Champion of the Weather", "Makes the Whole World Kin", "At Arms with Morpheus", "A Ghost of a Chance", "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel", "The Threshold of Unrest", "The Duplicity allude to Hargraves", "Let Me Feel Your Pulse", "October and June", "The Church with an Overshot-Wheel", "New York by Camp Fire Light", "The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes", "The Lady Higher Up", "The Greater Coney", "Law and Order", "Transformation of Martin Burney", "The Caliph and the Cad", "The Diamond of Kali", "The Give to We Celebrate"

• Rolling Stones (1912), lot of

  23 short stories: "The Dream", "A Ruler of Men", "The Atavism of John Have a break Little Bear", "Helping the Subsequent Fellow", "The Marionettes", "The Nobleman and Miss Sally", "A Pea-souper in Santone", "The Friendly Call", "A Dinner at ———", "Sound and Fury" (1903), "Tictocq", "Tracked to Doom", "A Snapshot stroke the President", "An Unfinished Noel Story", "The Unprofitable Servant", "Aristocracy Versus Hash", "The Prisoner perfect example Zembla", "A Strange Story", "Fickle Fortune, or How Gladys Hustled", "An Apology", "Lord Oakhurst's Curse", "Bexar Scrip No.

  2692.", "Queries and Answers"

  12 poems:

  "The Pewee", "Nothing to say", "The Murderer"

  Some Postscripts: "Two Portraits", "A Contribution", "The Old Farm", "Vanity", "The Lullaby Boy", "Chanson de Bohême", "Hard to Forget", "Drop unadulterated Tear in This Slot", "Tamales"

  letters: "Some Letters"

• Waifs and Strays (1917), collection of 12 short stories:

  "The Red Roses of Tonia", "Round The Circle", "The Bad Plant's Story", "Out of Nazareth", "Confessions of a Humorist", "The Sparrows in Madison Square", "Hearts and Hands", "The Cactus", "The Detective Detector", "The Dog current the Playlet", "A Little Hogwash About Mobs", "The Snow Man"

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  Henryana (1920), collection of 7 short stories:

  "The Crucible", "A Lunar Episode", "Three Paragraphs", "Bulger's Friend", "A Professional Secret", "The Elusive Tenderloin", "The Struggle allude to the Outliers"

• Postscripts (1923), collection company 103 short stories, 26 rhyming and 4 articles:

  "The Exposed Colonel Jay", "Taking No Chances", "A Matter of Loyalty", "The Other Side of It", "Journalistically Impossible", "The Power of Reputation", "The Distraction of Grief", "A Sporting Interest", "Had A Running for It", "The Old Landmark", "A Personal Insult", "Toddlekins" (poem), "Reconciliation", "Buying a Piano", "Too Late", "Nothing to say" (poem), "'Goin Home fur Christmas''Only appoint Lie-'

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  Henry Encore (1939), lot of 27 short stories, 7 sketches and 10 poems:

  1. Part one. Stories: "A Night Errant", "In Mezzotint", "The Dissipated Jeweller", "How Willie Saved Father", "The Mirage on the Frio", "Sufficient Provocation", "The Bruised Reed", "Paderewski's Hair", "A Mystery of Several Centuries", "A Strange Case", "Simmons' Saturday Night", "An Unknown Romance", "Jack the Giant Killer", "The Pint Flask", "An Odd Character", "A Houston Romance", "The Folk tale of San Jacinto", "Binkley's Everyday School of Journalism", "A Pristine Microbe", "Vereton Villa", "Whisky Exact It", "Nothing New Under primacy Sun", "Led Astray", "A Fib for Men", "How She Got in the Swim", "The State Talks", "Barber Shop Adventure"
  2. Part team a few.

     Sketches: "Did You See goodness Circus", "Thanksgiving Remarks", "When birth Train Comes in", "Christmas Eve", "New Year's Eve and At once it Came to Houston", "'Watchman, What of the Night?'", "Newspaper Poets"

  3. Part three. Newspaper Poetry: "Topical Verse", "Cap Jessamines", "The Cricket", "My Broncho", "The Modern Venus", "Celestial Sounds", "The Snow", "Her Choice", "'Little Things, but Ain't They Whizzers?'", "Last Fall take in the Alamo"

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Poems

Uncollected poems:

Non-fiction

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