Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860), better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley , was an American author.
A selection from these contributions was published in 1841 under the title Sketches from a Students Window..
There he continued in the publishing business, and from 1828 to 1842 published an illustrated annual, The Token, to which he was a frequent contributor both in prose and verse.
In 1833 he bought 45 acres (180,000 m2) in nearby Roxbury and built a home in what is now Jamaica Plain.
He visited Europe from 1823 to 1824, and moved to Boston in 1826.
From 1816 to 1822 he was a bookseller and publisher in Hartford.
Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860), better known under his pseudonym Peter Parley , was an American author