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"What You Want"

A short story about a wealthy man and a hat-cleaner in New York City.

Date: September 1908

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Article excerpted from a literature magazine providing a description of the places in New York that O. Henry used as settings for many of his short stories. The article is illustrated with photographs.

Date: September 1913

Creator: Maurice, Arthur Bartlett, 1873-1946

Item Type: Article

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

The Crucible

Three-stanza poem by O. Henry. "O. Henry's last poem...One of two poems found in a notebook after his death."

Date: September 1910

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

O. Henry's Last Story

Partially finished short story about a criminal on death row. O. Henry was unable to complete this story before his death. Story illustrated with facsimiles of the original manuscript.

Date: September 1910

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Calloway's Code

A newspaper staff tries to decipher a code sent by a reporter abroad.

Date: September 1906

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

The Octopus Marooned

Short story set in Texas.

Date: September 1911

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Law and Order

Short story set on a ranch in Texas.

Date: September 1910

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

The Lonesome Road

A short story set in Texas.

Date: September 1903

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Prose fiction

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Letter from Dudley Frasier to Charles Green

Letter regarding the wife of an associate of O. Henry living in Austin.

Date: September 30, 1954

Creator: Frasier, Dudley

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

Athol Estes Porter Autograph book

Autograph album belonging to Athol Estes, includes 10-line two stanza poem. First letters of first five lines acrostically spell Athol (first letters of lines) and Estes (last letters of lines). Signed "W.S.P."

Date: September 25, 1885

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Book

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

The Independent: O. Henry and the Patriot

"Mr. Steger [O. Henry's] literary executor, made a trip to Texas not long ago in search of the early work of O. Henry and some of the material he gathered is presented here."

Date: September 5, 1912

Creator: Steger, Harry Peyton, 1883-1913

Item Type: Article

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm]

Letter detailing programme for a musical event to be held on October 1, 1886, in which Belle Palm is on the program and O. Henry is the Musical Director.

Date: September 23, 1886

Creator: Henry, O., 1862-1910

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

An agreement for the sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy who was "eleven or twelve years old." Hercules was sold by enslaver Ephraim M. Guthrie to enslaver Thomas Graham. The agreement names Hercules a "slave for life."

Date: September 29, 1847

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from E. M. Pease]

A letter to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease, who discusses Reconstruction.

Date: 1868-09-18/1868-09-27

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson]

A draft of a letter to President Andrew Johnson from E.M. Pease, who discusses issues related to the Civil War.

Date: September 4, 1865

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Funeral receipt]

A receipt for the "funeral of [E.M. Pease’s] child," Anne Marshall Pease.

Date: September 19, 1862

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

A receipt for the transportation of "the negro girl Emily and child belonging to Hon. E.M. Pease."

Date: September 15, 1853

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence to Richard Niles Graham from A.E. Wood]

A letter to Richard Niles Graham from politician A.E. Wood, who thanks Graham for a campaign donation to his recent run for the state senate.

Date: September 14, 1928

Creator: Wood, A. E.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence to E.M. Pease from Sam Houston]

An “autograph” letter from Sam Houston to E.M. Pease. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.

Date: September 5, 1851

Creator: Houston, Sam

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.

Date: September 24, 1867

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia]

A letter to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia, regarding the protection of the “honor and interests” of slaveholding states. Includes typewritten transcription of the letter.

Date: September 18, 1856

Creator: Wise, Henry A.

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The seventh in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.

Date: September 5, 1870

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

A note secured “by deed of trust on negroes.”

Date: September 18, 1849

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Text

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

The eighth in a series of eleven letters to Lucadia Pease from E.M. Pease—in them he discusses, among other things, yellow-fever and typhoid epidemics.

Date: September 14, 1870

Creator: Pease, Elisha Marshall

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

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"What You Want"

About New York with O. Henry

The Crucible

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Calloway's Code

The Octopus Marooned

Law and Order

The Lonesome Road

Letter from Dudley Frasier to Charles Green

Athol Estes Porter Autograph book

The Independent: O. Henry and the Patriot

[Letter from O. Henry to Belle Palm]

[Agreement for sale of Hercules, an enslaved boy]

[Correspondence to Lucadia Pease from E. M. Pease]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to President Andrew Johnson]

[Funeral receipt]

[Receipt for transportation of slaves]

[Correspondence to Richard Niles Graham from A.E. Wood]

[Correspondence to E.M. Pease from Sam Houston]

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

[Correspondence to Governor E.M. Pease from Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]

[Note secured by deed of trust on slaves]

[Correspondence from E.M. Pease to Lucadia Pease]