Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1442

Letter to Ayn Rand, c/o Bobbs Merrill Company, 468 Fourth Avenue, New York City

January 7, 1946

Dear Ayn Rand:

     I have just finished reading The Fountainhead.

     I want to thank you humbly for writing it. Not because the world so terribly needs it, but because I need it; because it inspires me to know that the intui­tions of my early years — so opposed to the dull and destructive mass-mindedness all about me, and since then more and more rationally confirmed — are also the burning beacons of other independent minds.

     Let me glory with you in the success of this brilliant creative work, with its at least faint heralding of a day of acknowledgement that man’s first duty to man is to let him alone — that all human relationships are destructive save those that are mutually cherished and sought.

Sincerely,