| Portsmouth's Bad Boy Tom |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
1836 - 1907
Arguable Portsmouth's most famous writer, TB Aldrich is best known for his his mischievous youth. His "Story of a Bad Boy" (1869) is still in print and inspired Mark Twain's mischevious Tom Sawyer. As a poet and editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Aldrich mixed with the Boston lieterati. But he never forgot his childhood days at Grampa Nutter's house in Portsmouth, today a museum. His compact history of Portsmouth, An Old Town by the Sea, is still a readable guide to the old port. Both his classics are reprinted here in full on the most complete Aldrich homage available online.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Articles
Blood on the Snow in Portsmouth
The Crescent and the Cross
Portraits of Tom Bailey
Twain in Black, Attacks Portsmouth
Early Postcards of the Aldrich Museum
Tom's Wife Tours Her Husband's Shrine
Early Poem: The Old House
Aldrich "discovered" by Charles Brewster
The Flickering Fame of Portsmouth's "Bad Boy"
Early Photos from "Old Town by the Sea"
An Old Town by the Sea
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The complete text of Aldrich's 1869
tour of Portsmouth.
| TABLE OF CONTENTS: | |
| I. Captain John Smith | Page 1 |
| II. Along the Water Side | Page 7 |
| III. A Stroll About Town | Page 22 |
| IV. A Stroll About Town (continued) | Page 34 |
| V. Old Strawberry Bank | Page 61 |
| VI. Some Old Portsmouth Profiles | Page 82 |
| VII. Personal Reminiscences | Page 105 |
| Index of Names | Page 125 |
Story of a Bad Boy
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The complete text of Aldrich's best known novel.
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS: | |
| I. In Which I Introduce Myself | |
| II. In Which I Entertain Peculiar Views | |
| III. On Board the Typhoon | |
| IV. Rivermouth | |
| V. The Nutter House | |
| VI. Lights and Shadows | |
| VII. One Memorable Night | |
| VIII. The Adventures of a Fourth | |
| IX. I Become a RMC | |
| X. I Fight Conway | |
| XI. All About Gypsy | |
| XII. Winter at Rivermouth | |
| XIII. The Snow Fort on Slatter's Hill | |
| XIV. The Cruise of the Dolphin | |
| XV. An Old Acquaintance Turns Up | |
| XVI. In Which Sailor Ben Spins a Yarn | |
| XVII. How We Astonished the Rivermouthians | |
| XVIII. A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go | |
| IX. I Become a Blighted Being | |
| XX. In Which I Prove Myself to Be the Grandson of My Grandfather | |
| XXI. In Which I Leave Rivermouth | |
| XXII. Exeunt Omnes | |