Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2257

Carbon of letter from Heath to Jesse H. Holmes, at Moylan, PA

May 22, 1941

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Holmes:

 

     I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the spirit and cordiality of your response to my letter. Seldom, if ever, have I found so fine and true a reflection of what I feel to be my deepest sentiments and perceptions concerning both material and spiritual things.

 

     I have been here in New York for the past two weeks making some very happy contacts both spiritual and intellectual with persons of diverse belief and affiliation. I have been especially well received among some of the prominent and intellectual Catholic people here, some of whom have shown a very keen interest and appreciation of my efforts to develop the practical aspect of religious inspiration as affecting public and community interests and affairs. Possibly you know of the Warren family here. They have provided me with some delightful and valuable contacts both here and in Washington, D.C.

 

     I have, of course, met some delightful and inspiring people at the Friends’ Meetings and other gatherings springing from this, and on my way up here it was my privilege to accept a luncheon invitation from Dr. Frank Aydelotte at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.

 

     Some weeks ago I stopped in at the Whittier House in Philadelphia just in time to attend a tea that was being given that day. Among the delightful persons that I met there was Mr. Walton to whom you referred and look forward to having further association with him.

 

     I am, of course, acquainted with Bliss Forbush; also his wife and daughter in a general way through attending the meeting in Baltimore whenever possible during the last six months or so, but I have been here in New York a good deal of the time, and so have attended the meetings here almost as much as in Baltimore.

 

     I have also been happy to get some fairly serious attention from a few of the most prominent men in the real estate field here in New York.

 

     If I sent you my little printed matters concerning property in land and the administration of real estate, you are probably aware that I regard this institution as the practical instrumentality through which mankind can find its way to peace and abundance in the realm of public and general affairs.

 

     Last summer and fall I made two visits to Montreal where I found some very delightful persons both Protestant and Catholic, and most of all among the Science Faculty at McGill University. I was especially happy in making the acquaintance of Dr. C. L. Huskins in charge of “Genetics” there. With him and his family and some of his friends I found great sympathy of feeling and mind. He was kind enough to call a special meeting of a Senior Faculty Organization commonly referred to as “The Holy of Holies” of which he was president, for the purpose of presenting to them my “Energy Concept of Population” and discussing it pro and con. He wrote me afterwards that the matter was still under discussion with them and would, doubtless, be the principal topic at their next following meeting.

 

     I also had the opportunity of presenting something about proprietary administration of public affairs to a luncheon group headed by Dr. George (Robert George, I think) of the Religious and Philosophy Department. This was my attempt to answer the question “How Can We So Arrange Public Affairs that Further Wars Will Not be Inevitable.” I was much gratified with the interest with which Dr. George and his associates responded.

 

     I am writing this letter somewhat hastily just on the eve of my departure from New York, and return to my home in Elkridge, Maryland, not far from the C. O. Camp in the Patapsco River Valley which is being directed by Dr. Wildman. I am, therefore, abbreviating this letter in order to keep one of my last engagements here with Mr. Schuyler Neilson Warren and some of his Clerical at the Xavier Labor School at 16^th Street.

 

     I shall certainly be delighted to have further communication with you and to develop with each other and to others more and more of the inspiration that we find in the divine order of nature no less than in the essential spirit of man.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

Spencer Heath

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