FULLER, Hiram, journalist, born in Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, about 1815; died in 1880. After teaching in Plympton, he was principal of the Green Street seminary in Providence, R. I., where he had Margaret Fuller for his assistant. He afterward became a bookseller in Providence, and in 1843 associated himself with N. P. Willis and George P. Morris in the publication of the " New Mirror." The three afterward-established the "Daily Mirror," of which Fuller became sole proprietor, and edited it for fourteen years. He wrote for it a series of clever society letters from Newport, under the pen name of "Belle Brittan."

Under Taylor's administration Fuller had a place in the navy department. He went abroad at the beginning of the civil war, espoused the Confederate cause, and established the " Cosmopolitan" newspaper in London. After being twice a bankrupt, he became a journalist and adventurer in Paris. He published "The Groton Letters" (1845); "Belle Brittan on a Tour" (New York, 1858); "Sparks from a Locomotive, by Belle Brittan" (1859); and "Grand Transformation Scenes in the United States, or Glimpses of Home after Thirteen Years Abroad" (1875).