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Bayard Taylor's Real Name

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
January
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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That Mr. Taylor's name was "James Bayard Taylor" was a statement printed in divers newspapers last spring. Mr. Taylor corrected it in a letter which has jtist been printed for the first time in the Wilmington Commercial " I was named by my parents," he said, " simply ' Bayard,' after James A. Bayard, thé gVandfather of your Senator. As a boy of IC or 17, I sometimes attached ' J.' (never James) to my name, foolishly thinking it wonld look better. Wlien my first volume of poems came ] out, Rufus Griswold, my literary i'riend, put ' James Bayard Taylor ' on the title page, and the small private edition was printed before I could correct it. The matter was au annoyance to me then, and has been ever since. I feit bound to retain the ' J.,' however, until I was 21 and became legally responsible for mv signature. Then I dropped it instantly, and have never sinee used anything else than my original and only true name." New York World: "It will probably be found that the principal stocfcholdcis in the companies forintroducingthe electrie light are also heavily intorestid in gas stocks, so that it is not likely that ! any change whioh may bo made wil! be j of a ruinously revolutionary character,"

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Michigan Argus