QUERY FOUR.
Which of our great poets do you consider led the happiest lives?
Whittier and Tennyson, because they were so blessed with great friendships. I knew them both well myself.
I shall never forget that glorious day in London, when Tennyson told me, with tears in his eyes, that his only regret was that he had written himself out before I had taken charge of the Homely Ladies’ Journal; while Whittier, the dear old chap, told me his fiery war songs that brought him social ostracism, need never have been written had I edited the Woman’s House Journal during that period.