Chapin lived in Philadelphia in the 1930s; Francis had grown up there and practiced law in the city for many years. Francis was appointed to the National Labor Relations Board in 1934 and the couple moved to Washington, D.C. Francis and Katherine likely moved back to Philadelphia when Francis briefly served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a letter from Chapin to William Grant Still indicates that they were moving back to Washington in the late 1930s when Francis was appointed Solicitor General. Francis and Katherine had two boys, Edmund and Garrison. Garrison died at age 7; Chapin wrote the poem "Bright Mariner" (1930) in his memory. Allen Tate, who would name her one of the inaugural Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress was a friend of Chapin's, as was Alexis Léger, a poet who wrote as Saint-John Perse. She was a correspondent of philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke, with whom she developed the concept for And They Lynched Him on a Tree (1940); and of composer Samuel Barber, who composed a score for her poem "Between Dark and Dark". As a Fellow in American Letters, in which capacity she served from 1944 to 1954, Chapin was on the jury for the first Bollingen Prize in 1948. That year, the prize went to Cantos by Ezra Pound. Chapin was one of only two jurors who voted against Pound. She thought it would be "unwise for the Library of Congress to single out a traitor for recognition; the traitor could not be separated from the poet—his anti-democratic, anti-Semitic fulminations ran through his whole work". In addition to her service on the Bollingen Prize jury, Chapin judged the National Book Award for Poetry and the Shelley Memorial Award in 1953 and 1959, respectively; and lectured at the Library of Congress. Katherine remained in Washington for just under 40 years after her move in 1934, presumably with a short interlude in the mid-1930s during Biddle's term as a circuit judge; the family kept a house in Philadelphia as late as 1938. She moved back to Pennsylvania following a stroke in 1973, and died in Devon on December 30, 1977. Poetry and libretti Chapin began to publish in the late 1920s. Her works appeared in Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, Saturday Review, North American Review, Poetry and Ladies' Home Journal. Lament for the Stolen