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Nathaniel Parker Willis
(Born: January 20, 1806 - Died: January 20, 1867)
Nathaniel Parker Willis was a popular journalist and author. He may generally be characterized as a friend of Poe.
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- Review of Tortesa, The Userer
- Review of Tortesa, The Usurer. A Play (July 1839, text “A” — Literary Review and Western Monthly Examiner)
- Review of Tortesa, The Usurer: A Play (August 1839, text “B” — Burton’s) (much shorter than the preceding text, and with almost no repetition.)
- “The American Drama” (repeats much of the July 1839 review of Tortesa)
- “The American Drama” (August 1845, text “A” — American Whig Review)
- “Mr. Longfellow, Mr. Willis and the American Drama” (1850, text “B” — Works)
- Review of Romance of Travel (?) (March 1840, text “A” — Burton’s) (authorship uncertain)
- “American Prose Writers, No. 2: N. P. Willis” (January 18, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)
- Notice from “Autography”
- “Willis” (“Autography” - part II) — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
- “N. P. Willis” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part I) — November 1841 — Graham’s Magazine
- Notice from “The Literati”
- “N. P. Willis” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. I) — May 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book (reprinted in the June 1846 issue)
- “N. P. Willis” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS
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- N. P. Willis to E. A. Poe - November 13, 1841
- N. P. Willis to E. A. Poe - November 30, 1841
- E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis - May 21, 1844 (Not in OL) (RCL#479b)
- N. P. Willis to E. A. Poe - May 26 or later, 1846 (misdated by Ostrom as @ 1845)
- N. P. Willis to E. A. Poe - December 23, 1846
- E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis - December 30, 1846 (OL#246)
- N. P. Willis to E. A. Poe - November 12, 1847 (misdated by Ostrom as 1844)
- E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis - December 8, 1847 (OL#258/OS#258)
- E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis - January 22, 1848 (OL#262)
- E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis- April 20, 1849 (OL#310)
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- Forgery: E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis- December 7, 1849 (noted as a J. Cosey forgery by Charles Hamilton)
- Forgery: E. A. Poe to N. P. Willis- August 7, 1849 (erroneously published as authentic in the new Southern Literary Messenger, August 1941)
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- Anonymous, “Our Contributors — No. XI: Nathaniel Parker Willis,” Graham’s Magazine, April 1844, 25:144-148.
- Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Nathaniel Parker Willis,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:438-443
- Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
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