Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2452

Carbon of letter to John Chamberlain, 840 N. Brookvale Road, Cheshire, Connecticut (See Item 2456 relevant to Beacon Press referred to here.)

July 27, 1956

 

 

Dear John:

Here is a copy of my recent letter to the Hertz Company. I have already sent a copy of it to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal, thinking he might like to use it.

My Foundation, as per caption above, is now duly incorporated. The Printing Office of Yale University Press is setting up my Citadel, Market and Altar, and Mr. Boyden says he will have galley proofs in the mid­dle of August. Designing of the book has been in the hands of John O.C. McCrillis of the Yale Press.

I have just returned from a ten-day trip to New England looking after the publication side of C.M.& A. I had a fine afternoon by appointment in Worcester with Dr. Walter Donald Kring, top officer of the Beacon Press, who arranged to have their new editor, Thomas Bledsoe, formerly with Putnam, drive down to Worcester for the meeting. Both these men showed an interest, I might almost say enthusiasm, for the manuscript (and its author), considering their short acquaintance with it. I will hear from them.

I made a similar and, if possible, more favorable impression upon John Howland Snow, of Wilton, Connec­ticut, who publishes libertarian and similar stuff. He calls his organization The Long House. He was sug­gested to me by Dr. Floyd Harper of Irvington-on-Hudson. He is certainly a dynamic personality with, I think, a good deal of a record. Would you be good enough to give me or direct me to where I can get a longer line on him?

While in New Haven, I tried to get in touch with you, but found you were on vacation, in Canada I think. I do hope you have been having a wonderful and refresh­ing time and that it will not be too long before I see you again.

     Best regards to you and to the young ladies,

Sincerely,