. Nathaniel Parker Willis . Copyright, 1885,By henry a. beers. All rights reserved. Tlie Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass , U. S. and Printed by 11. 0. Houghton & Company. .v^^ > >3 PREFACE. %? 5 J \ ^ . > The materials for a life of ^ViHis aie ricEenough to be embarrassing. Mcst of hJs writ-ings are, in a greater or less degTee, autobio-graphical ; and it would be possible to make avery tolerable life of him, by arranging passagesfrom these in the right order, and linking themtogether with a few paragraphs of cold , he lived very much in the worlds eye,and wa
. Nathaniel Parker Willis . Copyright, 1885,By henry a. beers. All rights reserved. Tlie Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass , U. S. and Printed by 11. 0. Houghton & Company. .v^^ > >3 PREFACE. %? 5 J \ ^ . > The materials for a life of ^ViHis aie ricEenough to be embarrassing. Mcst of hJs writ-ings are, in a greater or less degTee, autobio-graphical ; and it would be possible to make avery tolerable life of him, by arranging passagesfrom these in the right order, and linking themtogether with a few paragraphs of cold , he lived very much in the worlds eye,and was constantly talked and written about,so that there is abundant mention of him innewspaper files, and in volumes of Recollec-tions, etc., by his contemporaries. In additionto these printed sources, I have been furnished,by the kindness of Mrs. N. P. Willis, Miss Ju-lia Willis, and Mrs. Imogen Willis Eddy, withprivate letters, journals, and other MS. memo-randa by Willis, which extend from his schooldays at Andover dow
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