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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 13

A letter recently published in American and English journals: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. Sir, —Having contracted with American and English publishers to write the biography of George Bernard Shaw, I don't want peopN; saying later when it is published, "But you should have put in my story of Shaw," or '"Why did you leave out this postcard I got from him?'' So 1 am hereby warning aU such critics to send me their stories, quips, inscriptions, autographs, photograph*. postcards, letters, telegrams, cables, interviews, und such now, or forever hold their peace. Any such material ufter being copied will be returned to its* owners promptly and with thanks.—Yours, etc., FRANK HARRIS. 9 Rue de la Euffa, Nice, Fran'-e. A note in the New York "Herald Tribune": Two men, pallbearers for O. Henry twenty years ago at the Little Church Around the Corner, when a wedding party added an '*o Henry* touch" by nearly colliding with the funeral, joined * yesterday afternoon with others to honour the chronicler of "Bagdad on the Subway'' as an oil j)ortrait of the author, William Sydney Porter, was unveiled in the Episcopal Actors' Guild at the church. Dr. John Finley and Don C. Seitz, the spenders, recalled the funeral of June 7th, 1910, when, as the brtdnl party had to be warned back from the curb as the funeral was in progress. Will Irwin, another pallbearer, remarked, "Wouldn't O. Henry have enjoyed tbist"