Channing, William Francis, contributor to the _Standard_, i. 193. Chapman, George, ii. 354. Chapman, Mrs. Maria Weston, manages bazaar, i. 181; one of the editors of the _National Anti-Slavery Standard_, 192; proposes to J. R. L. to contribute, 196; overrates his popularity, 197. Chartres, J. R. L. visits, i. 380; gives title at first to _The Cathedral_, ii. 140. “Chastelard,” ii. 92. Chaucer, treated by J. R. L. in _Conversations_, i. 134; quotation from paper on, ii. 88; his appropriation of others’ work, 132. Chelsea, J. R. L.’s address at, ii. 326. Chester, J. R. L. at, with Canon Kingsley, ii. 153. Chicago, address at, by J. R. L., ii. 351. Child, David Lee, editor of the _Standard_, i. 192. Child, Francis James, edits the _British Poets_, i. 364; J. R. L. shows him the _Commemoration Ode_, ii. 63, 68, note; likes _Fitz Adam’s Story_, 104; accompanies J. R. L. to Baltimore, 213; his popularity there, 214; J. R. L. to, on the St. Andrews affair, 300. Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria, the “Philothea” of, i. 80; characterised by J. R. L. in the _Pioneer_, 105; her “Letters from New York,” 114; her editorship of the _Standard_, 192; in _A Fable for Critics_, 245. _Chippewa Legend, A_, i. 125. Chivers, T. H., i. 375. Choate, Rufus, J. R. L.’s article on, ii. 14. Choir, village, J. R. L.’s characterization of, i. 20. Christ, and Christianity, i. 169. Christ Church, Cambridge, ecclesiastical home of loyalists, i. 2; J. R. L. attends, ii. 311. Church, the, J. R. L.’s comments on, in _Conversations_, i. 141-145; a bulwark of Paganism, 170. _Church and the Clergy, The_, J. R. L.’s articles in _Pennsylvania Freeman_, i. 169. Civil-service reform, importance of, ii. 194, 202; reference to, at caucus, 210; address on, by J. R. L., 377. Clarke, James Freeman, in politics, ii. 201. _Class Poem_ by J. R. L., i. 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56-61. Clemm, Mrs., Poe’s mother-in-law, J. R. L.’s relations with, i. 282. Cleveland, Grover, elected president, ii. 316; J. R. L.’s judgment on, 324. Clifford, Mrs. W. K., J. R. L. to, on confidants, ii. 323; J. R. L. to, in response to an invitation, 391. Clough, Arthur Hugh, comes to America on same boat with J. R. L., i. 346; his reception in Boston and Cambridge, 346; describes the Lowell household, 347; J. R. L.’s judgment of his “Bothie,” 347; Cranch reminds J. R. L. of, ii. 96. Coercion Act, J. R. L. on, ii. 281. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, J. R. L. becomes acquainted with the poems of, i. 32; J. R. L. compares his own odes with those of, ii. 44, note; his want of scruple in matters of literary honesty, 134; J. R. L. on unveiling the bust of, 321. Colosseum at Rome, i. 338. _Commemoration Ode_, i. 400; tried on F. J. Child, ii. 63; exhausts J. R. L., 64; to be read aloud, 66; its composition, 67; its power to stimulate, 70; a shrine of Lincoln, 71.