Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1455

Letter written from New York City to Dr. Stanwood Cobb, 17 Grafton Street, Chevy Chase, Maryland

April 29, 1949

Dear Dr. Cobb:

Please do not think I have not many many times held you in happy remembrance since your kind letter of last summer. I did hope to see you before you left for Maine and I hope to see you now although it be a year late.

No, I have not been writing anything, not even letters as you well know, but with some secretarial assistance I am getting off a few now. It is not really that I have not been writing; for I have written quite a good deal in the last few years most of it dealing with the funda­mentals of physical science and their philosophic sub­stratum. However, this has been practically all in the rough and for my own exercise and edification, neither sufficiently polished or complete to offer for publica­tion. My principal and supposedly finished work entitled Citadel, Market and Altar, being an exposition of Socionomy as an objective science of society still lan­guished unpublished and unsung. This is partly because I felt it could be greatly strengthened by the addition of a few chapters showing in graphic detail the new profit seeking business organizations for which free enterprise can expand into the community services /and/ thereby give great technological impetus to the unconscious empirical social engineering

that has brought modern civilization thus far. Promoters prospectuses and plans for organization need to be prepared. I have been trying to obtain some competent assistance on these lines.

I hope you have made fine progress on the three books you referred to and are well on their way /check original/ to appre­ciative readers. I have made partial plans to go to Winter Park again this past winter but they were finally deferred. I suppose you will be in Maine this Summer. I hope to see you before you go and learn something of your present prospective work and plans.

With all good wishes,