Walt Whitman to Charlotte Fiske Bates, 17 July 1888

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Title: Walt Whitman to Charlotte Fiske Bates, 17 July 1888
Date: 17 July 1888
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00146
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Charlotte Fiske Bates, 17 July 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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prc_bb.00003.jpg Camden New Jersey Tuesday pm July '88

Thanks dear friend for the sweet-faced & fragrant pinks now before me—I have been & am ill but may yet rally—

Walt Whitman

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.