Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2523

Carbon of letter to F.A. (“Baldy”) Harper, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

February 19, 1957

Dear Dr. Harper:

      Naturally, I have had a great deal to think about since my last two visits with you, especially about the possibilities of a purely research organ­ization.  Something of that kind has been occupying my thoughts more or less definitely for a good many years. I am writing now principally to indicate how much I sympathize with the picture that has been taking shape in your mind. I only wish I could come to your support with strong financial as well as moral resources.

      I wish you could come down and pay us a visit. I’d like you to see our modest set-up here. Possibly it and a hundred acres of land between two main high-ways could be made available, if thought suitable, for the purposes of your projected organization. Perhaps this is only a dream, but it doesn’t do any harm to think of such things. Whatever you do or attempt along the lines of your present thinking, I hope I may count on your keeping me informed of it so that I can give you and your associates every pos­sible encouragement and support.

      When you make us a visit, possibly we could make the rounds of some of our libertarian friends, academic and otherwise, in Baltimore and Washington.

      Apropos of management and so forth, I enclose a little clipping of Newsweek of February 25th.

Cordially,

SH/m Enc: