Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — The Author Waited in Vain. [ARTICLE]

The Author Waited in Vain.

Colonel John Hay tells an interesting story that he vouches for as true. It is well known that gieat publishing houses like Harper’s, Lippincott’s, and others, accumulate manu-cripts for future use and file them away in vaults until needed. A friend of the Colonel s wrote a story called "The Brazen Android,” locating the scene of the story in England, in the time of Roger Bacon. The author’s name was William D. O'Connor, who for years lived in Washington. The story was a long one, and ran through three numbers of the magazine when published, in 1891. The singular part of the incident is, that the story was written and accepted by the Atlantic Monthly in 1861, and paid for. Month after month, and year after year. Mr. O’Connor watched the magazine for the publication of his story, and it finally did appear within a short time after his death, more than thirty years after it was accepted.—[Washington Post.