Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1564

Letter to Mrs. Albert Willie, 217 East Amelia Avenue, Orlando, Florida

November 18, 1955

 

Dear Meredith:

     Many thanks for your card of the 14th telling me that you are all well again. I am certainly glad to hear that, for I have been wondering very much about you, and thinking perhaps that I should write to Mr. Willie to find out. So your card is more than welcome.

     I do hope it has not been too much of a chore for you to find out about the Poetry Society. Anyhow, thanks mightily for all of your trouble. I am dropping a line to Miss Swaim.

     I am also wondering about that literary work of yours. You have done so much on it with such good pur­pose and to such good effect, it would be a shame for it to wither on the vine.

     My own book, Citadel, Market and Altar, is getting more and more under way every day. My grandson, Spencer Heath MacCallum, is supplying a good deal of the energy and circumspection in getting the MS finally ready for the printer. His father, who is a very fine artist and architect, has made a beautiful set of drawings and diagrams which will give a lot of tone to the book. And I have written a new Prefatory Note which I think shows conclusively how the basic units of social energy derive unbrokenly from the basic unit (Planck’s quantum) of physical energy-in-action. Most people consider that there is a necessary abyss between the physical and the biological and between the biological and the societal units of energy.

     We have made tentative arrangements with Yale Univer­sity for the physical designing of the book and for its printing and binding.  There are some favorable indica­tions that Beacon Press of Boston will attend to the pub­lication.

     Best love and good wishes, and my best to Mr. Willie.

SH/m  Enc:  “Prefatory Note Concerning the Quantum, the Erg-second, the Horsepower-hour and the Life-year”

 

Enc:  “Prefatory Note Concerning the Quantum, the Erg-second, the Horsepower-hour and the Life-year”