Henry Ames Blood
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Henry Ames Blood (1838-1900) was an American civil servant, poet, playwright and historian. He was born in Temple, New Hampshire but lived for most of his adult life in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a clerk for the Bureau of the Census and the Department of the Treasury. He was married twice.
Blood's The History of Temple, N. H. (1860) is still considered an important resource for the history of that region. His poetry was highly regarded in his own day, when he was considered in the first rank of American poets, but has been dismissed as overly-sentimental by later critics. His plays appear never to have made much of an impression then or since.
As a young government worker in Washington, D.C., Blood was in the city at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. His letters to his mother on the aftermath of the assassination and the trial of the conspirators were discovered in 2005 in one of the homes of Robert Todd Lincoln, and reveal an interesting impression of contemporary public sentiment concerning the events.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Nonfiction
- The History of Temple, N. H. (1860)
- Proceedings in the Internal Revenue Office Commemorative of the Late Judge Israel Dille (1874)
[edit] Drama
- The Emigrant (1874)
- Lord Timothy Dexter, or, The Greatest Man in the East (1874)
- The Spanish Mission, or, The Member from Nevada (1874)
- How Much I Loved Thee! (1884)
[edit] Poetry
- Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood (1901)
