EAF Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1836, though he spent many of his early years in Lousiana. He later worked in New York for a publishing company, and as an editor for various magazines. He also contributed many of his own works to periodical publications. An author of both poetry and prose, he found his greatest success in 1870 with the autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy . Aldrich served as editor of The Atlantic Monthly from 1881 to 1890.

Works in the EAF Collection

Daisy's Necklace: And What Came of It. (A Literary Episode.) (1857) (Restricted)

Marjorie Daw, and Other People (1873)

Out of His Head: A Romance. [Also Paul Lynde's Sketch Book] (1862) (Restricted)

Père Antoine's Date Palm (1866) (Restricted)

Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (1874)

EAF Manuscript Materials

Letter: Aldrich to Stedman (October 20, 1873)

Letter: Aldrich to "Mr. B" (January 17, 1874)

Letter: Aldrich to Scollard (October 27, 1901)

Letter: Aldrich to Miss Gilder (September 7, 1902)

Photo: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Engraving: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, after a photograph

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)

From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856)

Other Resources