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Bates, Charlotte Fiske

author, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1838, in New York city. She has published a volume of her collected verses, entitled Risk, and Other Poems. She has edited the Longfellow Birthday Book and The Seven Voices of Sympathy, compilations of Longfellow's prose and poetry, and the Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, a volume of poetical selections from English and American authors. She has also written some prose, which has not yet been published in a collected form. Miss Bates assisted Longfellow in compiling his Poems of Places, making ten translations expressly for the work. BATES, MRS. CLARA [DOTY], author, was born in 1838 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

She is a writer of juvenile tales and the author of Classics of Babyland Versified; Child Lore; On the Way to Wonderland; and Heart's Content. She died in 1895.