Chapter I: Front Matter

LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet and Friend

BY

LILIAN WHITING

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1910

_Copyright, 1910_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published, September, 1910

_Printers_
S.J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.

_Frontispiece_]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. 1835-1853 1

II. 1853-1860 26

III. 1860-1876 51

IV. 1876-1880 79

V. 1880-1890 106

VI. 1890-1895 169

VII. 1895-1900 205

VIII. 1900-1906 229

IX. 1907-1908 263

ILLUSTRATIONS

Louise Chandler Moulton, æt. 20 _Frontispiece_
From a daguerreotype.

FACING PAGE

Elmwood Cottage, Pomfret, Conn., the girlhood home
of Louise Chandler Moulton 5
Engraved on a watch belonging to her mother.

Louise Chandler Moulton, æt. 18 34
From a daguerreotype containing a slip of paper upon which
Mrs. Moulton had written, "Taken in Boston the day I
first saw my husband,--Spring of 1853."

Facsimile of a letter from Robert Browning 96

Lucius Lemuel Chandler, Mrs. Moulton's father 104
From an old daguerreotype.

The library in Mrs. Moulton's Boston home, 28 Rutland
Square 109
From a photograph.

Louise Chandler Moulton 122
From a photograph by W. Kurtz.

Facsimile of the original draft of "Laus Veneris," in
Mrs. Moulton's handwriting 143

Facsimile of a letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes 164

Louisa Rebecca Chandler, Mrs. Moulton's mother 199
From an old daguerreotype.

William U. Moulton 215
From a photograph.

Louise Chandler Moulton 227
From a photograph by Mendelssohn, London, taken about
1896.

Louise Chandler Moulton's grave in Mount Auburn,
Cambridge, Mass. 275

Facsimile of book plate from the Memorial Collection
of the Books of Louise Chandler Moulton,
Boston Public Library 282

LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

_POET AND FRIEND_