Autograph Manuscript Signed of his short story “Whistling Sam’s Christmas Stocking, later published in revised form as “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”

by O. Henry, William Sydney Porter

$25,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Published in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1899; later collected in Roads of Destiny 1909 . Approximately 3,200 words, 8pp. in pencil, closely written on rectos of unruled paper, with paragraph markings in left corner; a 15-line section of page 7 has been erased and written over. 1 vols. 22 x 15 cm. 8–5/8 x 6 inches . Sheets are yellowing and brittle, a few small marginal chips, one larger chip from the upper right corner of the first leaf, with the

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