Willis, Nathaniel

General biographical information on Willis is from Henry A. Beers, Nathaniel Parker Willis (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1890), and Thomas N. Bakeg Sentiment and Celebrity Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame (New York Oxford University Press, 1999). 

Nathaniel Parker Willis to Edgar Allan Poe, 1845. , Complete Works (Harrison), 17 206. 

Nathaniel Parker Willis to Charles Sumner, shelf mark bMS Am 1.9 [16 January 1845], published by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. 

For the attack on Willis, see Sandra Tome, An Idle Industry Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Workings of Literary Leisure, American Quarterly 49 (1997) 780-805. 

Willis is quoted in Beers, Willis, p. 349. The account of Willis s arrested development is from Edward F. Hayward, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Atlantic Monthly 54 (1884) 213. 

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