Her great-grandfather, a Rosecrans, was ninety years old when he died, and the legend goes that at the time of his death "his hair was as black as a raven's wing."

[5] The location of the State University in Ann Arbor gave better facilities for education than were offered in the usual western village.

It was before the admission of women to equal opportunities with men, but it was possible to secure private instruction in advanced studies.

Among these were Æsop's Tables Versified, Child Lore, Classics of Babyland, Heart's Content, and several minor books, all published in Boston.

[2] Two years previous to the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition, Bates worked to gather together a model children's library and succeeded in doing far more than she expected.

[5][2] After suffering severe physical pain for five years, Bates died on October 14, 1895,[3] at the Newberry apartments in Chicago.

The following comments and quotations are from that magazine in 1858:— "There is no young writer of poetry at present before our public whose lyrics are more decidedly characteristic than those of Miss Clara Doty, of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

If the reader will imagine a clear, yet sensitive mind, which has perfectly appreciated the purest and most sparkling flashes of German poetry, in the deepest and sweetest lyrics of Heine, and which has then, forgetting all models, studied nature, retaining no more of art than is found in our Indian legends, he will have an accurate idea of the impression which her songs convey.

There are many sweet little poems of the present day which look like Clara Doty's, but hers have the peculiarity that they are based on a deep, generally a semi-mythologic, thought.