[Letter : 1888?] Danvers, Mass. to the editor of the Transcript.

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[Letter : 1888?] Danvers, Mass. to the editor of the Transcript.

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Whittier decries the publicity attached to his monetary aid to Walt Whitman in Whitman's straightened and infirm circumstances, as he does not wish to have his "humanity" misunderstood. Though Whittier contends he has only a "slight knowledge" of Whitman's writings and does not wish to "sit in judgment upon others," he often finds the writings "indefensible from a moral point of view" and containing "an evil tendency;" he has a strong dislike to "the sensual school of literature and art."

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