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The Opal (annual)
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The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days, was an annual gift book, founded by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and published in New York by John C. Riker, from 1844 to 1849. Content included short stories, illust
The Opal frontispiece from 1847
The Opal frontispiece from 1847
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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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.
The Opal (annual)
…poems. Griswold began soliciting contributions for the annual in 1843, initially intending to call it The Christian Offering. It was first edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis, John Keese and finally by Sarah Josepha Hale. It was in the 1844 issue that Edgar Allan Poe first published "Morning on the Wissahiccon". Other…
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.