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He was in America again in 1836, bringing with him an English lady as a bride, the Mary for whom the country place Glen Mary at Owego was named, where he wrote his delightful Letters from under a Bridge. From this on Willis lived an active social-literary life, singing of Broadway with the same facileness as he sang of country scenes.
'The writer of this diary desires to be cast down under the facileness and plausibleness of his nature, by which he labours to please men more than God, and whence it comes that the wicked speak good of him . . . The Lord pity the proneness of his heart to comply with the men who have the power . . . Lord, he is unsound and double in his heart, politically crafty, selfish, not savouring nor discerning the things of God . . . Let not self-love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification . . . Shall I expose myself and my family to danger at this time?
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