Letters to Lithopolis

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Summary: Correction
Review: Lithopolis is not fictional. It is a real town in Ohio. Mabel Wagnalls was the daughter of the Wagnalls of Funk and Wagnalls. She donated the gothic style library that graces this tiny town. O. Henry, of course, was incarcerated down the road at the Ohio pen. The book is supposed to be his actual correspondence with the real-life author and concert pianist Mabel Wagnalls who lived in the actual and real-life town of Lithopolis, not a metropolis, but still in existence.

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Summary: Rare bit of "O Henryana"
Review: Orginally published almost 3/4 a century ago by Doubleday. The letters are to a fictitious Lithopolis are directed to a member of the noted publishing family of Wagnalls, as in Funk and Wagnalls.