Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1761

Pencil notes by Heath for a letter to Edith Hamilton.

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Dear Miss Hamilton:

Your Greek Way of Life and Echo of Greece are magnificent. And they tell as much about you as they do about the ancient Greeks. That is why I am sending you with my compliments a copy of my Citadel, Market & Altar.

I am sure you are deeply concerned whether or not our own version of the same kind — namely, political —  organization must be our own undoing as it destroyed them. Perhaps there is for our age, potential in our midst, a happy alternative that our hearts dream vaguely while our minds sleep