Baddeck and that sort of thing: The Book that Brought Alexander Graham Bell to Baddeck, Nova Scotia Paperback - 2015

Charles Dudley Warner: The American essayist & novelist Charles Dudley Warner was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts, but from his sixth to his fourteenth year he lived in Charlemont, MA, the scene of the experiences pictured in his delightful study of childhood, "Being a Boy" (1877). In 1851 he graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago (1856-60); was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861- 1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted "The Editor's Drawer" until 1892, at which time he took charge of "The Editor's Study". He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death on October 20, 1900 in Hartford, Connecticut, was president of the American Social Science Association. He was a friend and collaborator of Mark Twain ("The Gilded Age") and first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled "My Summer in a Garden"(1870; first published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding and refined humor and mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of outdoor things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style, qualities suggesting the work of Washington Irving.