Charlotte Fiske Bates to Walt Whitman, 29 August 1888

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Title: Charlotte Fiske Bates to Walt Whitman, 29 August 1888
Date: August 29, 1888
Creator(s): Charlotte Fiske Bates
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07616
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Cite this page: Bates, Charlotte Fiske. "Charlotte Fiske Bates to Walt Whitman, 29 August 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc_sf.00070.jpg see notes sept 5 1888 Cambridge, Aug. 29th, 1888. My dear Friend,

I send you this comprehensive brevity to tell you how glad I am that you are regaining your old self, and are again able to be at work.

Cordially yours, Charlotte Fiske Bates

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Correspondent:
Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) was a poet and editor. She published Risks and Other Poems (1879), a collection of around 120 poems, and she edited the Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1882). She contributed to numerous magazines and worked as an instructor in English at the Salisbury School for Young Ladies. She later married M. Adolphe Rogé. For more information on Bates, see American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with over 1,400 Portraits, eds. Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, (New York: Mast. Crowell and Kirkpatrick, 1897), 2: 617–618.