The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s gave him the entree to the bestsociety in New Haven, and his natural social giftssoon made him a general favorite. Willis was some-thing of a dandy, besides being a great admirer
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . s gave him the entree to the bestsociety in New Haven, and his natural social giftssoon made him a general favorite. Willis was some-thing of a dandy, besides being a great admirer ofpretty women, and devoted himself more largely tosociety life in that city than to college affairs. Inafter years he found the background for many of hisbeat stories in this early social experience. Aftergraduation he naturally adopted the profession ofletters, for which he was eminently fitted. He wentfirst to Boston, and shortly after entered into an ed-itorial engagement with Samuel G. Goodrich, Pe-ter Parley, who published the Legendary, andthe Token, two illustrated annuals. Goodrichhad already published Williss Sketches in 1827,and had said of him that, before he was twenty-five he was more read than any other poet of histime. In 1839 Willis started the AmericanMonthly Magazine, which lived for two years and ahalf, and was then merged into the New YorkMirror, with N. P. Willis, George P. Morris, and. ^^^^5=^^?^^ Theodore S. Fay as editors. This journal was de-voted to literature, the fine arts and society. In 1831Willis went abroad as foreign correspondent for thepaper, under agreement to write weekly letters at$10 a letter. The result of this European trip wasmost fortunate, as far as his literary success wasconcerned, for it furnished him with the stimulusand supply upon which he was always most depend-ent. Having many letters of introduction, he hadthe fortune to meet notable and desirable people in afamiliar and cordial way, which resulted in his be-ing formally a
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