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A Letter and a Paragraph – Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)

Bunner`s fame rests on the work he published in the last fifteen years of his life. Born at Oswego, N. Y., he went when he was very young to New York for his education. It soon became apparent that literature was to be his career, and he joined the staff of the Arcadian. Later he became the editor of Puck. The first of Bunner’s stories to meet with success was The Midge (1886), a tale of New York life. Then followed a number of others which were subsequently collected in several volumes, Short Sixes (1891) among them. His stories are distinguished by simplicity of motive, and are related with subtle humour and an underlying pathos, escaping any sentimentality.

A Letter and a Paragraph is reprinted from Stories of H. C. Bunner, copyright, 1891, 1896, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, by permission of the publishers.
A Letter and a Paragraph

The Letter
My Dear Will

You cannot be expected to remember it, but this is the fifth anniversary of my wedding-day, and to-morrow it will be to-morrow before this letter is closed is my birthday my fortieth. My head is full of jhose thoughts which the habit of my life moves me to put on paper, ‘where I can best express them; and yet which must be written for only the friendliest of eyes. It is not the least of my happiness in this life that 1 have one friend to whom I can unlock my heart as I can to you.

A Letter and a Paragraph part 8

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Bear with me, my dear Will, until I have told you I have written this letter and what it means. I have concealed one thing from you for I he last six months. I...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 7

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At first I was frightened, and fought against it as against something that might grow upon me. I reproached myself for disloyalty in thought. Ah! what need had I to fight? What need had...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 6

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It was so at the beginning, in the incredible happiness of the first year, and even after the boy`s birth. Do you know, it was months before I could accept that boy as a...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 5

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Strangest of all this, that the mad agony of grief, the passion of desolation that came upon me when our long partnership was dissolved for ever, should now be nothing but a memory, like...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 4

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It was a small matter, but the friendship begun in manly and helpful kindness has gone on for twenty-two years in mutual faith and loyalty; and the growth dignifies the seed.A sturdy growth it...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 3

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I could only silently pray that he would “give me an easy one,” and that I should not disgrace myself in the doing of it. By Jove, Will, what an old martinet Baldwin was,...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 2

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I tell you, Will, that moment was to me like one of those moments of waking that we know in childhood, when we catch the going of a dream too subtly sweet to belong...

A Letter and a Paragraph part 1

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Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)Bunner`s fame rests on the work he published in the last fifteen years of his life. Born at Oswego, N. Y., he went when he was very young to New York...

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