Autograph Manuscript, a fragment from the short story “Calloway’s Code”

by William Sydney Porter, O. Henry

$4,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

One page on wove paper, 21 lines in pencil, headed with page number 7. 4to. Two chips, affecting a word or two, bottom of page uneven. Good plus. Item #374885 A page from a working draft of Calloway’s Code varying slightly from the published text, which first appeared in Munsey’s Magazine, September 1906, and was collected in Whirligigs : Great! said Boyd. ^It's an anagram. “My first is a Russian general. Go

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