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"
Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
An Old Town by the Sea
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The complete text of Aldrich's 1869
tour of Portsmouth.
Story of a Bad Boy
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The complete text of Aldrich's best known novel.
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