Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1378

Carbon of a letter to Dr. S.A. Schneidman, 207-12 Jamaica Avenue, Bellaire, Long Island, New York, New York

April 30, 1940

 

Original is missing.

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Schneidman:

 

     Your letter of the 26th with its two invitations is very tempting. There is nothing for me to do but accept.

I wish the two dates were not so far apart, but I don’t see how I can afford to pass up either of them without being very sorry afterwards. So, here goes; I’ll have to be there somehow. I had partly planned to come to New York tomorrow anyway. Now I think I’ll go the next day, Thursday. I’ve got a lot of odds and ends tying me to some property here and last week I had to spend three days in bed from which I got up too soon, so I’m still barking and sneezing.

    

     I’ll call you up Thursday night or Friday morning and perhaps we can have a Friday or a Sunday date to­gether. I have to be here tonight for a St. John’s College Adult Seminar Group at the Public Library and then for some extension of this group work for which I have engaged the Room at the Library for the follow­ing Tuesday. That means I’ll have to take a late train Tuesday night, May 7, so as to arrive at Brooklyn College comfortably Wednesday noon.

 

     That College date certainly is an attractive one — faculty and graduate students — and the philosophy of rent and the free market (true democracy) is just about the core of everything politico-economic.

 

     Many personal regards and congratulations,

 

                            Sincerely,