Yours truly,
SYDNEY PORTER.
[Mr. Al. Jennings, of Oklahoma City, was an early friend of
O. Henry's. Now, in 1912, 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 coming
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 had 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.
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