O. Henry Papers: Containing Some Sketches of His Life Together With an Alphabetical Index to His Complete Works

Excerpt from O. Henry Papers: Containing Some Sketches of His Life Together With an Alphabetical Index to His Complete Works

I heard that the author was living in a lodging or boarding house in West Twenty-fourth Street. That was as near as I could get to a definite address. I concluded that that portion of West Twenty fourth Street occupied (at that time) by boarding houses, pensions and Italian restaurants, lying between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, offered the best hunting ground; and l accordingly began a complete survey of every structure that seemed open to the transient world Through the courtesy of some landlords and the discourtesy of a few slaveys, I managed to comb four buildings - without results. The fifth happened to be the Hotel Marty. The proprietor was an Italian. I asked him if he had an 0. Henry or a Sydney Porter occupying a room in his hospitable inn. Neither name seemed to mean anything to him. He did, however, suggest that I might go through the house and investigate.

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