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Page 107
Keep your shirt on. I found I had to re-write the story when it came in.
I am sending you part of it just so you will have something tangible to
remind you that you can't measure the water from the Pierian Spring in
spoonfuls.
I've got the story in much better form; and I'll have the rest of it
ready this evening.
I'm sorry to have delayed it; but it's best for both of us to have it a
little late and a good deal better.
I'll send over the rest before closing time this afternoon or the
first thing in the morning.
In its revised form I'm much better pleased with it.
Yours truly,
SYDNEY PORTER.
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Mr. Al. Jennings, of Oklahoma City, was an early friend of O. Henry's.
Now, in 1.9122, a prominent attorney, Mr. Jennings, in his youth, held
up trains.
28 W. 26. N. Y. SUNDAY.
ALGIE JENNINGS, ESQ., THE WEST.
DEAR BILL:
Glad you've been sick too. I'm well again. Are you? Well, as I had
nothing to do I thought I would write you a letter; and as I have
nothing to say I will close. How are ye, Bill? How's old Initiative and
Referendum? When you cming back to Manhattan? You wouldn't know the old
town now. Main Street is building up, and there is talk of an English
firm putting up a new hotel. I saw Duffy a few days ago. He looks kind
of thoughtful as if he were trying to calculate how much he'd have been
ahead on Gerald's board and clothes by now if you bad taken him with
you. Mrs. Hale is up in Maine for a 3 weeks' vacation.
Say, Bill, I'm sending your MS. back by mail to-day. I kept it a little
longer after you sent for it because one of the McClure & Phillips firm
wanted to see it first. Everybody says it is full of good stuff, but
thinks it should be put in a more connected shape by some skilful writer
who has been trained to that sort work.
It seems to me that you ought to do better with it out there than you
could here. If you can get somebody out there to publish it it ought to
sell all right. N. Y. is a pretty cold proposition and it can't see as
far as the Oklahoma country when it is looking for sales. How about
trying Indianapolis or Chicago? Duffy told me about the other MS sent
out by your friend Abbott. Kind of a bum friendly trick, wasn't it?
Why don't you get "Arizona's Hand" done and send it on? Seems to me you
could handle a short story all right.
My regards to Mrs. Jennings and Bro. Frank. Write some more.
Still
BILL.
* * * *
Dear Jennings:
N. Y., May 23, '05.
Got your letter all right. Hope you'll follow it soon. I'd advise you
not to build any high hopes on your book--just consider that you're on a
little pleasure trip, and taking it along as a side line. Mighty few
MSS. ever get to be books, and mighty few books pay.
I have to go to Pittsburg the first of next week to be gone about 3 or 4
days. If you decide to come here any time after the latter part of next
week I will be ready to meet you. Let me know in advance a day or two.
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