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ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY (1836-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALDRICH, See also:THOMAS See also:BAILEY (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 Bailey " is the juvenile See also:hero.' His father's See also:death in 1852 compelled 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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