nast wouldn't answer any of redpath's letters, so he found out nast was getting on a ship for england, and he got on the same boat. so he corners nast and talks at him until nast in a desperate effort to gets redpath to go away says, well, if you can convince my wife. so redpath goes back to morris town and talks sally into it which worked out great financially, but nast hated lecturing really, really badly. but i want you to see this is a fascinating person through whom nast knew lots of other people. nast was also friends with james parton on the left, his wife's cousin. james parton was a widely-read and influential essayist. he wrote lives of aaron burr, voltaire, andrew jackson, thomas jefferson. in addition to being a full-time writer for newspapers. and his wife, whose pseudonym was fannie fern, was a novelist and also an essayist in her own right. she was older than parton, and she had built her career from the ashes of her early private life despite her family's disapproval, and she went on to be an ab will bigsist and influenced -- ablutionist. the influence of this woman wh