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. [Illustration: LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON, ÆT. 20 _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_ CHAPTER I 1835-1853 The poet in a golden clime was born With golden stars above.--TENNYSON. The lingering charm of a dream that is fled.--L.C.M.