| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ Hawthorne wrote of it: "I have been reading some of Aldrich's poems this evening. I find them rich, sweet and imaginative in such a degree that I am sorry not to have fresher sympathies, in order to taste all the delights that every reader ought to draw from them. I was conscious here and there of a delicacy that I hardly dared to breathe upon." He married in 1865 Lillian Woodman, of New York, and they resided on Mt. Vernon street in Boston, with summer homes at Ponkapog, Mass., and on the Maine coast. ”
