About Nathaniel Parker Willis:
Nathaniel Parker Willis was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern.
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker WillisGratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis