Excerpt from Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vol. 2: With Extracts From His Journals and Correspondence

Pleasantly situated as the "Smith Professor" was, in his delightful apartments, with congenial occupation, intellectual companionship, and attached friends, - there was yet something wanting, without which he found himself often unsatisfied and restless. He had known the happiness of domestic life, for which his nature was especially formed, he felt the need of a sympathy, not of friendship alone, but of more intimate affection. This want, fortunately, was not to remain longer unsupplied. In May of 1843 he wrote to a friend: "Of late my heart has quite turned my head out of doors. My correspondence suffers in consequence." In July he was married to Miss Frances Elizabeth Appleton, the daughter of Mr. Nathan Appleton, an eminent and highly esteemed merchant of Boston. As will be remembered, he had first seen her, then a maiden of nineteen, in Switzerland, six years before.

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