William Sidney Porter Papers
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Letters from Al Jennings
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The 1913 item is a two page TLS (typed letter signed) to Mr. Archibald Henderson of North Carolina regarding a lecture and/or contribution for an O. Henry memorial (1913). It has been silk laminated. The 1922 letter is to Eli Oettinger regarding William Sydney Porter, a watch, and being in Illinois.
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Letters from Margaret Worth Porter (Cesare Sartin)
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These letters are from Margaret to her father. The early item is written to him while he was in prison and the others are written while Margaret was a student at Belmont College and Dwight School, and later from Asheville, North Carolina.
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Letters from Sara Coleman Porter
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Included is a 1907 letter to Lily Benbow, with cover, in which Sara speaks of her marriage and early family life. Two 1910 letters to Lily speak of the death and last moments of William Sydney Porter and are on mourning stationery. These letters also discuss Sara's relationship with William Sydney Porter immediately prior to his death. Also included is a cover, without an address, to Lily Benbow in the handwriting of Sara Coleman Porter. The telegram was sent by Sara Coleman Porter to her mother, Mrs. William Coleman, announcing the death of William Sydney Porter. An undated letter to Eli Oettinger speaks of Porter's refusal to return to Texas, while the 1939 item to Eli Oettinger was in response to his request for a photograph of her. A 1947 letter to Earl Weatherly declines to his invitation to visit Greensboro and speaks of "one of her treasures," a letter from William Sydney Porter that she apparently enclosed for him.
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Letters from William Sydney Porter to daughter Margaret, 1907-1910
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These letters speak of family matters, holidays, etc. Most are written to Margaret from New York, but several are from Asheville, North Carolina. Margaret's addresses range from her grandmother's house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey, to the Coleman home in Asheville, North Carolina. Items are in good to excellent condition and several include William Sydney Porter's wax seal. The clipping is one Porter sent to his daughter, a publicity clipping for the book "The Four Million."
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Letters to Margaret Worth Porter (Cesare Sartin)
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The earliest item is a note to Margaret from her cousin Waldo Porter asking her to come back to Greensboro, written presumably after Margaret and her mother visited in 1890 or 1891. Two of the 1909 items regard publishing stories written by Margaret (she was an authoress), and one is in French from a schoolmate. The final item regards a Santini painting done of William Sydney Porter.
