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Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, New York, to Mrs. Horace Silsby, Seneca Falls [manuscript], 1891 September 17.

Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916, sender.; Silsby, Mary R., 1843 or 1844-1916, addressee.; Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916. Risk and other poems.
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Title
Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, New York, to Mrs. Horace Silsby, Seneca Falls [manuscript], 1891 September 17.
Description
2 leaves ; 20 x 13 cm
Associated name
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916, sender.
Silsby, Mary R., 1843 or 1844-1916, addressee.
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916. Risk and other poems.
Scope and content
Letter signed Charlotte Rogé. Bates gives Silsby permission to use a poem for a one volume poetic tribute to Shakespeare. She also provides a copy of a sonnet on Shakespeare taken from her Risk and other poems, published in 1879. First line of poem: Adam of poets! Thou must once have felt.
Note
Bifolium with a separate addressed envelope. Letter sent from N.Y. 123 Waverly Place to 168 Fall St., Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Genre/form
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts (documents)
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
United States -- New York (State) -- Seneca Falls.

Call number
Y.c.5533
Folger accession
cs442

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