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