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  Dear Sir:—

I send you a copy of the Yale Lit for Nov 74 containing an article "W. W." You will see at a glance that it is simply a condensed rehash of Mr. Burroughs' "Notes"—a Westminster Review Article and your Democratic Vistas.

I have not sent it to you before—because somehow or other I have not had the courage. I feared lest what you have said in "Calamus"—your cautions to would be pupils of yours—might be true.

 

I hope that you will not be offended at the imperfect way in which I have tried to express my faith in you. I first became acquainted with your books some four or five years ago and from them I have not only learned faith & courage but have become desirous of seeing you yourself. This last pleasure has been denied me; but one of the pleasantest memories of my life is the recollection of an hour passed with your mother in the summer of '72.

 

The passage marked } is disjointed—for the false delicacy of the Eds' of Lit kept out some remarks upon the physical degeneracy of our women.

Very Respectfully Philip Hale To Walt Whitman Camden N. J.