George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.
George Pope Morris, 1836, oil on canvas by Henry Inman
Sheet music cover of Woodman, Spare that Tree!
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, 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. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister Sara wrote under the name Fanny Fern. Harriet Jacobs wrote her autobiography while being employed as his children's nurse.
Portrait of Willis by Mathew Brady studios, circa mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840.
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.