Life and letters of David Coit Scudder, missionary in Southern India . By

Horace Elisha Scudder (October 16, 1838 - January 11, 1902) was an American man of letters and editor.He was born into a Boston family as one of six boys with one sister; his brothers were David Coit Scudder and Samuel Hubbard Scudder. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1854 and from Williams College in 1858, taught school in New York City, and subsequently, returned to Boston and devoted himself to literary work. He is now best known for his children's books and the editorship he held of The Atlantic Monthly. He published the Bodley Books (1875-87) and was also an essayist, and produced large quantities of journalism that was printed anonymously. He was a correspondent of Hans Christian Andersen and biographer of James Russell Lowell. He edited The Riverside Magazine for Young People: An Illustrated Monthly (1867 to 1870), where several Andersen fairy tales were published for the first time.