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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 12: Whittier the poet (search)
g this salutation to you — a duty which I fulfil with joy, expressing at the same time our gratitude to you, and also our wish to receive, if possible, from yourself the original English, which is still unknown to us, of this piece of poetry, which we so justly prize. Accept, dear and honoured brother, these lines of respect and Christian love, from your sincere friend in the Lord Jesus, J. D. Charbonnier, Moderator of the Vaudois Church. Mr. Whittier's reply, dated Amesbury, 10th mo., 21st, 1875, is in these words:-- My dear friend, I have received thy letter informing me of the generous appreciation of my little poem by the Synod of which thou art Moderator. Few events of my life have given me greater pleasure. I shall keep the letter amongst my most precious remembrances, and it will be a joy to me to know that in your distant country, and in those sanctuaries of the Alps, consecrated by such precious and holy memories, there are Christians, men and women, who think