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THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1836-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:BAILEY See also:ALDRICH (1836-1907)  , See also:American author,' was See also:born in See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire, on the 1th qf See also:November 1836 . When he was but a See also:child his See also:father moved to New See also:Orleans, but after ten years the boy was sent back 'tq Portsmouth—the " Rivermouth " of several of his stories-to prepare for See also:college . This See also:period of his See also:life is partly described in his See also:Story of a See also:Bad Boy (187o), of which " Tom See also:Bailey " is the juvenile See also:hero.' His father's See also:death in 1852 compelled See also:Aldrich to abandon the See also:idea of college and enter a business See also:office in New See also:York . Here he soon became a See also:constant contributor to the See also:news-papers and magazines, and the intimate friend of the See also:young poets, artists and wits of the See also:metropolitan Bohemia of the See also:early 'sixties, among whom were E . C . See also:Stedman, R . H . See also:Stoddard, See also:Bayard, See also:Taylor and Walt See also:Whitman . From 1856 to 1859 he was on the See also:staff of the See also:Home See also:Journal, then edited by N . P . See also:Willis, while ' This See also:book has been translated into See also:French as See also:Education et recreation, and into See also:German as a specimen of American See also:humour . Gestis Pontificum Anglorum, edited by .

N . E . S . A . See also:

Hamilton (See also:London, 187o) ; W . H . See also:Dixon, See also:Fasti Eboracenses, vol. i., edited by J . Raine (London, 1863) ; T . See also:Stubbs, Chronica Pontificum Ecclesiae Eboracensis, edited by J . Raine (London, 1879-189) ; E . A . See also:Freeman, See also:History of the See also:Norman See also:Conquest, vols. ii., iii., iv .

(See also:

Oxford, 1867-1879) .

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