TAYLOR
TAYLOR
city }ie reached in February, and wliilein London,
awaiting aiii from home, was employed in mak-
ing out catalogues and in packing books by Mr.
Putnam, London agent of the American publish-
ing tirm. He arrived in New York city, June 1,
1*46; visited Boston; published anonymously
"Tije Norseman's Ride." 1S4G-47, wiiich Whittier
copietl in tlie Xalioiial Era, and which through
correspondence led to a loyal friendship with
the poet ; was associate editor of the Pioneer,
Phcenixville. Pa., 1846-47. -and published his
foreign letters as Views Afoot in December, 1847.
In the following January he removed to New
York, where he was tirst employed by Charles
Feimo Hoffman and as a teacher of belles-lettres
in Miss Green's school ; later wiis connected with
the Tribune, of wliicii he became a stockholder,
1S49; wiis editor of TJie Union Magazine and
Christian Inquirer, March-September, 1848 ;
wrote book-reviews for George R. Graham ; was
New York correspondent for the Saturday Even-
ing Post, aiul offered the permanent editorship of
Grahatn's Magazine, which he did not accept,
owing to tlu- financial condition of the paper.
Througli Hoffman, with whom he lived, and N.
P. Willis, he was introduced to the literary and
social circles of New York. As correspondent of
the Tribune, he investigated the gold fields in
California. 1849-50, an account of liis observations
appearing the same year in " Eldorado," and on
Oct. 24. ISoO. was married to Mary S. Agnew, who
died the following December 21. After editing
the " Cyclop;edia of Literature and Fine Arts"
he sailed as Tribune correspondent for Liverpool,
April 19. 1851 ; spent some time in London ; ar-
rived in Alexandria, Nov. 1, 1851, and persisted in
traveling up the "White Nile ;" subsequently
visited Palestine. Sicily, Italy, Spain, Asia Minor,
and in May, 1853, under the auspices of tlie Trib-
une, joined Commodore Perry's expedition to
Japan, enlisting as master's mate and resigning
after four months' service. While in Japan
Humphrey Marshall, U.S. commissioner, offered
to attach him to his staff. He reached New
York. Dec. 20. 1853; lectured on "The Arabs,"
"India" and "Japan and Loo Choo," 1854-55.
wrote voluminously, and wjis engaged in build-
ing a summer residence on Pusey farm near
Kennett. His health failing in July, 1855, he re-
visited Germany, taking with him his sisters and
brother, and on Dec. 1, 1856. set out for Norway
and Lapland, which journey he described in
Xorthern Travd (1857). He was married
secondly. Octoljer, 1857, to Marie, daughter of
Peter Andreas Hansen of Gotha, Germany, as-
tronomer and director of the Dur-al observatory,
and they h.vl one child. Lilian. ])orn Aug. 3, 1858,
who married Dr. Kiliani of Halle, Germany.
His wife translated several of his works into
German and subsequently edited his poems, plays
and essays. After his marriage he visiteil Greece,
Poland and Russia, and arrived at Kennett Square,
Oct. 24, 1858; continued his connection with the
Tr/6«He; contributed literary sketches of travel
to the New York Mercury ; conducted extensive
lecture tours, and dedicated his new home,
" Cedarcroft," by a famous house-warming, Oct.
18-19, 1860. In 1801 his contributions to the
press were " trumpet calls" to the defence of the
Republic, " Scott and the Veteran" rousing the
greatest enthusiasm, and guarded by a force of
police he defended George William Curtis by an
oration delivered in Brooklyn and in Philadel-
phia. In May, 18G2, he was appointed secretary
to Simon Cameron, U.S. minister to Russia ; was
charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg, September-
May, 1863, when he resigned, and for a time was
occupied in the study of the life of Goethe in
Gotha, returning to the United States upon the
death of his brother. Col. Frederic Taylor, at
Gettysburg. The year 1867 he spent in European
travel, in letter writing and painting ; translated
"Faust" at Corsica, 18G8 ; was non-resident
lecturer on German literature at Cornell univer-
sity, 1870-77, subsequently repeating the lectures
before the Peabody Institute, Baltimore ; visited
California for his health in the .spring of 1870 ;
lectured upon earlie.st German literature in
Ithaca, N.Y,, 1871, and the same year was asso-
ciate editor of Scribner's " Librarj' of Travel."
In consequence of financial embarrassment he
leased " Cedarcroft,"and removed to New Y'ork,
whence he sailed, June 6, 1872, for Weimar, Ger-
many, to collect materials for his lives of Goethe
and Schiller, and where in January, 1873, he re-
peated a lecture given in Hamburg the previous
December, on American literature for the benefit
of the Frauenverein, the whole court being pres-
ent. Obliged to seek Italy for his health, he re-
ported the Vienna exhibition of 1873 for the Tri-
bune, contributed the Cairo letters, February-
April, 1874, and as press correspondent visited
Iceland on the occasion of its millenial anniver-
sary. He returned to New Y'ork, Sept. 9, 1874 ;
collected and published his letters as Egypt and
Iceland ; was engaged in lecturing ; edited Apple-
ton's " Picturesque Europe," and in 1876 resumed
daily work on the Tribuy^e. He was api)oiiited
U.S. minister to Germany b}- President Hayes in
February, 1878, his appointment being the oc-
casion of many receptions and banquets in his
honor. He was made an honorary member of
the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard college in
1850, writing at its reque.st the commencement
poem of that year, " The American Legend ; " a
member of the Century association, 1851 ; com-
posed tho "Gettysburg Ode " for the di'dication
of the national monument, July 1, 1869; the
