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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

George Pope Morris (1802–1864)

Morris, George Pope. An American journalist and song-writer; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 10, 1802; died in New York City, July 6, 1864. In 1846, with N. P. Willis, he founded the Home Journal. He became famous as a writer of songs, among which is included ‘Woodman, Spare that Tree.’ His books are: ‘Briercliff,’ a drama; ‘The Little Frenchman’; and ‘Poems.’