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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010513
Author:Jonathan Yardley

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Does the name mean anything to anyone any more? I fear not, except perhaps to students of New England literature or American local color or 19th-century children's literature. Yet when Aldrich's collected writings were published in 1897 -- he was then 61 years old -- they ran to eight volumes, and when he died a decade later, his house in the New Hampshire seaside town of Portsmouth was acquired by a memorial association and opened to the public as a museum in his honor. The Aldrich memorial remains there to this day, though it is hard to imagine that many visit it.

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