Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (AWL-drihch), poet, editor, and story writer, was born in the harbor town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on November 11, 1836. The son of Elias Taft Aldrich and Sarah Abba Bailey Aldrich, Thomas spent his early years in New York City, New Orleans, and other parts of the United States. In 1849, he returned to Portsmouth to prepare for Harvard College and to live in the Nutter House, which he describes so vividly in The Story of a Bad Boy. There he was a pupil of Samuel De Merritt, a famous schoolmaster of the time.
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