THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH - AUTOGRAPH 12/1883 - HFSID 295965
Price: $140.00
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
Signed the year he wrote An Old Town by the Sea about his home
town, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Signature: "Thomas Bailey Aldrich/Dec. 1883", 6½x6. Thomas
Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was an
American writer, poet and editor. He left home at the death of his father in
1849, at the age of 13, to work as a clerk in his uncle's New York business.
Once in New York, he contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines. After
publishing his first book of poems The Bells in 1855, Aldrich became
junior literary critic for the New York Evening Mirror and then subeditor
of Home Journal before editing The Atlantic Monthly from 1881 to
1890. His books of poems include Cloth of Gold (1874), Flower and
Thorn (1877), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (1877) and Windham
Towers (1890). Aldrich also wrote several novels, but is best known for
this short story collection Marjorie Dew and Other People (1873) and his
semi-autobiographical The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). The year he
signed this album leaf, he published an historical memoir and travel guide to
his home town of Portsmouth, An Old Town by the Sea. Lightly toned. Fine
condition.
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