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

N . E . S . A .

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

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Oxford, 1867-1879) .

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