Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2574

Heath sent letters (similar but not identical) to various persons with complimentary copies of Citadel, Market and Altar. In those sent between May 27 and June 20, 1957, the text, “I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an advance copy of my Citadel, Market and Altar, which I trust will attract your attention and be found worthy of the inspiration under which it was written and the purposes toward which it is aimed,” is the same in all. Heath sent out an additional mailing in the fall, assisted by a neighbor, Anita Stead, after Spencer MacCallum had left to begin studies in anthropology at the University of Washington. Tragically, Ms. Stead took home and lost all of these replies.

 

 

 

Mr. J. Donald Adams

[Form letter sent to all who had received gifts of

 CM&A as of October 9, 1957]

Mr. Spencer Heath has told me of the pleasure it gave him to present to you a gift copy of his recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, which appeared in June. He has asked me to keep you in touch with how this book is being received. Therefore I am happy to send you quotations from some of the letters and notices we have received during the summer.

Your own reaction to the radically new points of view employed in this volume is a matter of great interest to us.

 Sincerely yours, Anita Stead, Assistant to the President

 

Dr. Frank Aydelotte

        

As one of our leading minds in human and public affairs, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an advance copy of my Citadel, Market and Altar, which I trust will attract your attention and be found worthy of the inspiration under which it was written and the purposes toward which it is aimed.

 

Mr. Bill Balas

         [To: 876 Adams Avenue, Franklin Square, New York,

          August 2, 1957]

We’re sending a few gift copies of CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR to persons of prominence and to personal friends who we think would be especially interested — among whom we can place none higher than you. So here it is with our compliments and best wishes. If you are in New York early in the week of August 4^th, give us a call.

 

Dr. Lincoln Barnett

Appreciating your fine contributions to the philosophy of science in its relation to public affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

>Mr. Bruce Barton (2582)

     [To: 383 Madison Avenue, New York 17, NY, May 27,

 1957]

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human

freedom, I take great pleasure …

[From: May 31, 1957]

I am grateful to you for the copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar” – a very intriguing title – and shall look forward to reading it. I am afraid you are too flattering in attributing to me a “great influence in the cause of human freedom”. I am now only a spectator, and a somewhat bewildered one at that. (signed) Bruce Barton

 

Dr. Jacques Barzun

2682      [To: Columbia University, New York City 27,

 August 22, 1957]

Having a spent a good many years as a re­search engineer and in search of a mode of public administration without coercion upon the persons and properties of those being served, I have formulated my findings in the recently published volume, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I am enclosing for your information the dust cover and some extracts from letters that have been so far received from persons of some standing in the intellectual and public fields.

If this descriptive material convinces you that you would like to examine this volume, possibly with a view to reviewing it, I shall be very happy to send it to you with my compliments, entirely free of charge or any other obligation. I am prompted to this by my very high estimation of your critical acumen as displayed in your reviews and other writings.

Your return of this letter with your name or initials attached will be taken as a signal of your acceptance of my proffered cour­tesy.

[From: Office of the Dean, The Graduate Faculties,

 Columbia University, New York City, September 5,1957]

Mr. Barzun is flattered by your request, but he regrets that his present schedule of commitments prevents him from reading and reviewing your book. He appreciates your thinking of him and hopes you will understand these circumstances.

 

Mr. Adolph Augustus Berle

         [To: 70 Pine Street, New York City, May 27, 1957]

     As one of our leading minds in human and public affairs, I

take great pleasure…

 

>Dr. N.J. Berrill (2612)

         [To: Department of Zoology, McGill University,

 Montreal, Canada, June 25, 1957]

I have just finished reading your wonderful book, “MAN’S

EMERGING MIND.” It has a cosmic scope and poetic beauty the like of which I have never seen or so much enjoyed before.

It was brought to my attention by the American novelist, Rose Wilder Lane, in connection with an appreciation by her of my own “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR,” an inscribed copy of which I am presenting to you with my compliments and appreciation.

    [Penned note from: McGill University, Montreal,

 September 22, 1957]

I have been away all summer and have just returned to find your very nice note and copy of your book waiting for me. I appreciate both and from what I have already seen of the book I am sure I shall spend some very interesting and enjoyable hours with it this winter.  /s/ John Berrill

    

Ms. Bettina Bien (2681)

         [To: Foundation for Economic Education, Ivington-on-

          Hudson, NY, August 22, 1957]

     I am very happy even at this late date to fulfill my

promise to you of a copy of CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, for I feel that a mind like yours will grasp some of the philosophic and religious implications as well as the economic analysis.

         [From: September 3, 1957]

Thank you so much for your letter of August 22, and the copy of your book which has just been received. You may be sure that I appreciate your thoughtfulness in remembering me and I am deeply indebted, also, for the kind words with which you inscribed my copy. It will be some time before I have a chance to read your book, for I am off this coming Saturday for Europe and the Mont Pelerin Meeting in Switzerland. However, it will be on the agenda of things to do when I return. It was a pleasure getting to know you this summer.

 

>Mr. and Mrs. George Bingham

         [To: 2950 Bainbridge Avenue, New York City 58,

          August 22, 1957]

… This volume contains in fairly well-ordered form my most matured thinking along the lines that seemed to interest both of you a good many years ago. I feel that you will find it interesting and stimulating and hope you will not be too reticent concerning it among your associates and like-minded friends. …

     [From: Penned letter, September 9, 1957]

We were indeed delighted to receive your letter and booklets, and above all your gracious gift of Citadel, Market and Altar, so kindly inscribed. It would be untrue to say that we can scale easily or quickly those heights of science, economics, and philosophy from which you “beacon the world’s night,” but the vistas are sublime. My reading proceeds slowly, but I have peeked and been thrilled by several things: your lucid prose, the splendid sonnet with which you conclude, and the awfully nice portrait on the book jacket. Woman-like, I am especially pleased to have this last. Reading Citadel, Market and Altar will be, I know, as significant and profound an experience as our first reading of Progress and Poverty was, with the unique addition that this time we have the pleasure and honor of knowing the author. Many, many thanks, and sincere good wishes from Margaret F. Bingham

 

Dr. Max Black

     [To: 971 East State Street, Ithaca, NY, May 27,1957]

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of philosophic thought and its influence on public affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. John G. Bowman

         [To: 971 East State Street, Ithaca NY, May 27, 1957]

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of public and human affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Crane Brinton

[From: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral

 Sciences, 202 Junipero Serra Boulevard, Stanford,

 California, October 30, 1957]

Dear Miss Stead:  … I am out here in California for a year’s work and have necessarily had to leave a good deal of my material, documents and the like, back home in Cambridge. Please tell Mr. Heath that I hope very much I can see him one of these days and that after I get back to Cambridge I will really try to do justice with what he has sent.

 

>Mr. Lee H. Bristol

         [To: Office of the President, Bristol-Myers Co.,

630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, NY, November 5, 1957]

Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out.

Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…  [Extracts from letters and reviews; CMA under separate cover]

[From: Office of the President, Bristol-Meyers

 Company, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York 20, NY,

 November 8, 1957]

I have your letter of November 5^th and note you are sending a copy of your book “Citadel, Market and Altar.” The title is intriguing and I am sure I will find it interesting reading. Many thanks for your generous thought.

/s/ Lee H. Bristol

 

Prince Louis de Broglie

[To: Instutut Henri Poincare, 11 rue Pierre Curie,

 Paris V^e, France, June 17, 1957]

Appreciating your great eminence in the esthetic arts and the general human culture, as well as in physical science, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Detlev W. Bronk

     [To: 35 East 75^th Street, New York, NY, May 27, 1957]

Appreciating your many contributions to the advance of physical and biological science and its applications, I take great pleasure …

 

>Dr. Edwin Arthur Burtt

         [From: The Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell

 University, Ithaca, NY, November 21, 1957)

I have finally been able to read parts of “Citadel, Market and Altar”…

Scattered through the book are incisive hints which I have been able to make use of in my own thinking on the matters with which the author deals. As to the general argument which the book develops, I must express some reservations. I cannot avoid the feeling that the focal place given to the idea of “free contract” would be appropriate only in a society of mature individuals in harmonious cooperative relation with other societies in its world. In our actual situation, which is far from this ideal, I wonder whether a different type of social (and specifically economic) relation does not need to play a more crucial place than in Mr. Heath’s treatment it seems to fill. We can only move toward the realization of the ideal by fully recognizing all the forces which at present are running counter to it. At least that is my present general reaction to the book.  /s/ E. A. Burtt

 

Dr. Vannevar Bush

         [To: Carnegie Institution of Washington,

 1530 P Street NW, Washington 5, DC]

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of science and its application in public affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Senator John Marshall Butler

         [To: United States Senate Office Building,

 Washington 25, DC, November4,1957]

One of your constituents has done considerably more thinking about public affairs than most have. He has turned his talents as a research engineer in the field of aeronautics to an examination of the non-political side of our public institutions. His report, based primarily upon physical and biological laws uncovers the fact that our free enterprise system is capable of being extended into the realm of community affairs.

As a public servant having the welfare of all of your constituents at heart, I am confident that you will be interested in examining the results of this non-political investigation.

Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my recently published “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.

Enc: Extracts from letters and reviews, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR under separate cover

         [From: November 15, 1957]

Thank you very much for your kindness in sharing with me a copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar”. /s/ John M. Butler

 

Senator Harry F. Byrd

         [From “Rosemont,” Berryville, VA, May 27, 1957]

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom, …

 

>Dr. Huntington Cairns

     2219 California St., NW, Washington DC, May 27, 1957]

I appreciate your kind acknowledgment of my proposed non-political solution of the Suez. Since the underlying principles of this solution have been extensively set out for a very much broader field of action in my volume, Citadel, Market and Altar, I take great pleasure …

 

Mr. Glenn M. Cate

         [To: Station A, Box 512, Champaign, Illinois,

 July 22, 1957]

I was sorry you had to leave the June Seminar at Irvington-on-Hudson before the end. But I understand that the occasion for it was a very happy one, and I wish to give you my congratulations and every good wish for you and Mrs. Cate.

Remembering the quality of your mind as exhibited during our pleasant evening at Dr. harper’s and on other occasions during the Seminar, I take great pleasure …

 

Mr. William Henry Chamberlin (2619)

         [From: 18 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts,

 June 5, 1957]

Thank you very much for your kindness in sending me a copy of your work, “Citadel Market and Altar.” I am just on the eve of leaving for a journalistic trip of some months in Europe and am not, therefore, in a position at this time to give your book the careful attention I am sure it deserves. I look forward to reading it on my return. I appreciate very much your kind references to my writings.

/s/ William Henry Chamberlin

 

Mr. Arthur Ben Chitty

         [To: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,

          August 22, 1957]

I was very happy to receive your letter of July 8^th commending my “Practice of Christian Freedom.”

I now take great pleasure in sending to you and Mrs. Chitty with my compliments an inscribed copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I trust you will enjoy reading it, and that you will be stimulated — perhaps inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.

You will note that this book is already being commended by some persons of standing in intellectual and public affairs. I am looking forward to further responses, and am particularly hopeful that it will be reviewed in a considerable number of journals of the better class, including possibly The Sewanee Review.

It seems a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you and Dr. McCrady and others at Sewanee who were so gracious personally to me. I see no immediate prospect of another visit, but cherish the idea of being among you again before any very great length of time.

 

>Dr. Shepard Clough

[To: Dept. of History, Columbia University, 547 Riverside Drive, New York City 27, August 22, 1957]

I am happy to present you with a gift copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, which I hope you will find a worthy companion piece to your own RISE AND FALL OF CIVILIZATION. I hope you will find the broad setting in which I have placed the same general thesis congenial to your mind, and that the idea of profit motivation becoming the main spring towards sound social advance — in the public realm as in all private affairs — will appeal to you. [Enc: “The Practice of Christian Freedom,” CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR under separate cover]

     [From: East Peacham, Vermont, September 9, 1957]

This is to acknowledge your letter and the receipt of your book. I shall read the _____ with interest.

Yours, /s/ Shepard B. Clough

 

Mrs. Ethel Clyde

         [To: “Old Fields,” Huntington, New York,

 November 1, 1957]

I certainly am sorry that I missed you in New York the third week of October but hope to see you on your return.

 Many thanks for your kind letter of October 22^nd with the comments on the book. It looks as though a few worthwhile people are going to read it, notwithstanding its religious implications that you have so often told me would spoil the book.

 Just in case my gift copy failed to reach you, I am sending another one appropriately inscribed.  Cordially,

 

Dr. Stanwood Cobb

         [From: 17 Grafton Place, Chevy Chase, Maryland,

 May 29, 1957]

I feel sure that you will be pleased to know that my long developing manuscript has now reached the point of publication by a small foundation of my own, purposes of which are enclosed. I take great pleasure in presenting to you a copy with my sincere compliments and very many good wishes to you and to Mrs. Cobb. I am writing from my New York address but am spending the greater part of my time at my home in Maryland, which is the Foundation headquarters as above. Cordially,

 

>Mr. William H. Coberly, Jr.

         [To: 2301 East 52^nd Street, Los Angeles 58, CA,

Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting to you…

 

Prof. Rushton Colbourn

         [To: The Graduate School, Atlanta University, Atlanta,

 Georgia, May 27, 1957]

Your researches and writings on the subject of feudalism have been of great interest and value to me. I take great pleasure therefore …

     [From: November 13, 1957]

 

 

Mr. William T. Couch

         [To: 116 Pinehurst Avenue, New York City 33,

 September 17, 1957]

During a visit of mine at Chapel Hill some years ago, you were kind enough to show considerable interest in a manuscript entitled, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR.

It occurs to me that you may be interested to know that this book, considerably amended and improved, has just recently been published. It has been highly commented on by a number of prominent persons, and now my very gracious friend, Lucille Cardin Crain, writes with en­thusiasm and suggests the importance of your having an opportunity to examine this “timeless book.”

 I take great pleasure, therefore …

[From Executive Offices, P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 640 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, NY, October 2, 1957]

Thank you very much for the copy of your book, Citadel, Market, and Altar.

 It happens I am under extreme pressure at the moment and under the necessity of meeting schedules with our printer. It will be some time before I will be able to read the book.

 However, my wife has already read it and tells me it is an unusually thoughtful piece of work. She also says that it is completely out of line with present trends — and, unfortunately, we are letting our trends rule us completely today. I think it is very important to keep trying, but I see little prospect of getting the intellectual world to think seriously about the direction in which we are going.

 I remember after writing the above that we have received two copies of the book. We are sending one of these to our friends, the Henry Fullers, in Easton, Connecticut.

/s/ William T. Couch

 

Dr. Rushton Colbourn

         [From: The Graduate School, Atlanta University,

 Atlanta, Georgia, November 13, 1957]

I regret that this has caught me at a moment when I am preparing a manuscript of my own and am quite unable to read anything except what is required for that purpose. You will, I think, understand this situation in which scholars find themselves! I assure you that, as soon as I get around to it, I shall read Citadel, Market and Altar and send you my opinion of it. Meanwhile I am grateful to Mr. Heath for

his favorable comment on my book on feudalism.

/s/ Rushton Colbourn

 

Dr. Donald J. Cowling

 

Lucile Cardin Crain

2698      [From: Wainscott, Long Island, NY, September 16, 1957]

.. it is a book I will pick up over and over … a timeless book .. and I hope that a number of us conservatives will continue to spread the word about it for a long time to come.

 I wished often that two persons I have known could have lived to read Citadel, Market and Altar, and to have become acquainted with its author. These are Burton Rascoe and Garet Garrett, both of whom, I feel sure, would not only have appreciated your ideas but equally the eloquent and charming style in which they are expressed.

 

Mr. Jasper E. Crane

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom and, further, by the special request of Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane, I take great pleasure …

2642      [From: Nemours Building, Wilmington, Delaware,

 July 2, 1957]

Your letter of June 20 is received. Thank you very much for sending me an inscribed copy of CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. It looks very interesting, but I have not yet read it. I propose to do that promptly, for it seems to me that you have made an important contribution to freedom literature.

     /s/ Jasper E. Crane

 

Mr. W. M. Curtiss

[From: The Foundation for Economic Education,

 Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, August 29, 1957]

I have delayed replying to your most generous letter of August 17 until “Citadel” arrived. It came this morning and I am delighted to have it. I mean to read it carefully as soon as I can. Up to now, I have only scanned it. I am especially pleased with your inscription.

It was delightful having you and Spencer here at the June seminar. Also, we were glad Spencer could spend a day with us at the August seminar. We look forward to many future visits from both of you. … /s/ W.M. Curtiss

 

John Cutler

2650      [From: Copeland Homestead, Hillsboro, Virginia,

July 13, 1957]

It is a source of great pride to me to be the possessor of a copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar” inscribed by the author, and my thanks are overdue. I plead that I wanted to familiarize myself at least to some extent with its content — supplementing your rewarding verbal expositions — before writing you.

 As with your conversation on the subject, your written words are provocative of thought. Thus “provoked,” I venture to pose a couple of questions which, with others, one may hope will be further clarified in a sequel to your book — ?

 In the furnishing of public services by the community owners, will not a bureaucracy develop, in the actual process of such furnishing, that may become as stultifying as the present political bureaucracy?

 As public proprietorship becomes available to all (page 136), will there be enough individuals to perform services? As distribution (rather than production), world-wide, is the problem to be solved with respect to agricultural products in our day, will there not be a serious problem of distribution with respect to activities in your contemplated society?

 Finally, what of the transition? How shall society set its course toward your horizon? And what are the pragmatic chances of progress in that direction?

 

Sir William C. Dampier

         [Deceased]

 

Dr. Anna Kleegman Daniels

         [To: 322 West 72^nd Street, New York City 23,

 August 22, 1957]

Some time has passed since I had the pleasure of a visit with you. Perhaps by way of keeping our acquaintance in good working order, I am sending you a copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I hope you will find it as interesting in its way as I have found your IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE, which I have not only read but circulated among friends. I hope you will enjoy my volume as much as I have yours, and that you will be stimulated — perhaps hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.  …

 

Mr. John Davenport

         [1 East 87^th Street, New York City, August 22, 1957]

I recall a very pleasant interview with you at the instance of John Chamberlain while you were with Fortune Magazine, during which you expressed a great deal of interest in my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR (in its then uncompleted, manuscript form), which interest you were unfortunately prevented from following further at the time. …

 

Mrs. Russell W. Davenport

For many reasons which I am sure you can easily understand, I take great pleasure …

 

Edward R. Dewey

[From: The Director’s Office, Foundation for the Study

 of Cycles, East Brady, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1957]

Dear Miss Stead: Thank you so very much for your letter of October 14 and the interesting enclosures, which I have read with care. /s/ Edward R. Dewey

 

Dr. Graham DuShane

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of science and its application in human and public affairs, I take great pleasure …  Thank you very much for your response to my proposed non-political solution of the Suez Canal problem, which was a particular application of the general principles set out in the volume herewith.

 

Mr. Max Eastman

Appreciating your great influence in the world of literature and art and in the cause of human freedom, I take pleasure …

2674      [From: Chilmark, Massachusetts, August 12, 1957]

I hope you will forgive me for delaying so long to send you my hearty thanks for your book Citadel, Market and Altar. It came at a time when my thoughts were so far away from social and political questions that I could not even look into it. I’m taking it up with interest now and you will probably hear from me again before I am through. My best wishes to you and to the book. And sincerest gratitude.

/s/ Max Eastman

 

Prof. Stanislaw Ehrlich

     [From: Warszawa, ul. Rakowiecka 41 m. 27,

 December 14, 1957]

I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the valuable book by Spencer Heath, “Citadel, Market and Altar” which I read with the greatest interest. Looking forward your new publications especially in the field of political science I remain sincerely yours, /s/ St. Ehrlich

 

Mr. F.J. Emmerich

         [From: Office of the Chairman, Allied Chemical & Dye

 Corporation, 61 Broadway, New York 6, NY]

Look forward to reading this book with a great deal of interest and pleasure and am grateful for your kindness in sending it to me.

It was thoughtful of Dr. Jordan to suggest my name to you and shall tell him so and express my appreciation the next time I see him.

    [From: 61 Broadway, New York 6, NY, October 17, 1957]

Dear Miss Stead: ..Owing to the press of other matters, I have not been in a position to read this book as I should like but from a quick review it appears to set forth a new approach to the science of society and should provoke thought on this important subject. Am sure it will receive the recognition that is its due. /s/ F.J. Emmerich

 

Dr. Raymond English

         [To: Department of Political Science, Kenyon College,

 Gambier, Ohio, November 5, 1957]

Appreciating your constructive influence in the field of public affairs, it gives me special pleasure to present…

 

Mr. Benjamin F. Fairless

     Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of

our free enterprise system and the advancement of science and its application in human and public affairs, I take great pleasure …

2628      [From: 525 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh 30,

 Pennsylvania, June 13, 1957]

     Thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending me an

advance, autographed copy of your book, “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR”. You may rest assured I will read it at the first opportunity. /s/ B. F. Fairless

 

General Bonner Fellers

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of our free-enterprise system and your great influence in the cause of human freedom, I take pleasure …

 

Dr. James W. Fifield, Jr.

Appreciating your many long labors in the advancement of spiritual values and the understanding of our free-enterprise system in relation to public and human affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Appreciating the artistic perfection and above all the high spiritual influence of your books, which I have enjoyed reading for many years, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Abraham Flexner

Appreciating your very great contributions to the advancement of science and philosophy and to education in their application in the whole range of human and public affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Miss Jean Freeman

[To: Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Temple Texas,

 August 2, 1957]

Here at last is a gift copy for you of my magnum opus, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. You will see by the enclosed quotations from letters that it is being somewhat favorably received. I know you will be glad. From what I remember of our many conversations during past years, you will be sure to understand and enjoy CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR as well if not better than anyone else. I am quite happy to send it to you. I hope to hear that everything is fine with you and that you are enjoying many things. Affectionately,

[Penned note from: VA Hospital, Temple TX,

 October 17, 1957]

It is terrible to have waited so long to thank you for the book. I was in between trips when it came and I’ve been exceptionally busy ever since. I have not had time to read it — but your ideas and philosophy made a big impression on me, and I know the book has some of what I enjoyed so much in you. May you have much success with it. Thank you very much.  Cordially, /s/ Jean Freeman

 

Dr. George Gamow

Appreciating your many eminent contributions to the advancement of physical and other science and its application in public and human affairs, I take pleasure …

 

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Gavan

         [To: 153 East 18^th Street, New York City,

 August 22, 1957]

Remembering very happily our pleasant meeting at the National Arts Club and your kind invitations to me, I take a great deal of pleasure in presenting you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I anticipate that notwithstanding its foundation in natural sciences, you will find this congenial to your thought along spiritual

and artistic lines, and further that it will show something of the creative and thereby the spiritual character of investment in and the productive administration of properties and funds.

        

Dr. R. W. Gerard

Appreciating your great contributions to the advancement of medical and biological sciences and their broad application to human affairs, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Harry D. Gideonse

Remembering you as one to whom new basic conceptions in the field of human progress and affairs would have a very special appeal, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Charles Coulston Gillispie

         (From: Department of History, Princeton University,

 October 4, 1957]

Of course I am glad that you approve of my article. /Review of Joseph Needham’s book on history of Chinese science — pro-communist — as published in American Scientist, March 1957/ I do not usually discuss books in such strong terms, but this one did seem to call for it.

 Your own book is so original in its approach and so unconventional in the scope of the subjects embraced that I find it very refreshing. I’m afraid that the discussion lies mostly outside my own field of competence, but I find it extremely interesting, and it forms a very welcome addition to my library. … /s/ Charles C. Gillispie

 

Mr. James H. Gipson, Sr.

     Appreciating your great work and influence in the

libertarian field, I take great pleasure …

2627      [From: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Ohio,

 June 13, 1957]

Thanks so much for your cordial note of June 3 and for the

copy of your book, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. A hasty examination of this satisfies me that it is something that I shall enjoy reading with care. I shall do so just as soon as possible.

   You are on our Libertarian list and are familiar with our books, but we are not sure that you’ve ever seen our latest Libertarian Catalog. It, with order blank, will be found attached. /s/ J. H. Gipson, Sr.

 

Mr. Arthur Godfrey

         [In response June 20, 1957, to Heath’s daughter,

Lucile Heath MacCallum, a neighbor of Godfrey in Waterford, Virginia, who had sent him a copy of the book.]

Thank you so much for sending me a copy of your father’s book, “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I sure did appreciate your thinking of me and I am looking forward to reading it. With kindest personal regards and thanks again for your interest. Sincerely, /s/ Arthur Godfrey

 

Mr. Pierre F. Goodrich

         [To: Electric Building, Indianapolis, Indiana,

 September 25, 1957]

Appreciating your wide influence on behalf of human freedom, and remembering your kind interest in my proposal of a strictly free-enter­prise solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in my much more generalized elaboration of the prin­ciple and philosophy of free enterprise as applied to public affairs.

Accordingly, I take great pleasure in pre­senting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.

 The matter of the Suez Canal is no longer under wide public discussion, and its solution is not being further publicized. However, in appreciation of its very thoughtful consideration by you, I am enclosing also extracts from some of the later responses that were received.

 

Dr. John J. Grebe

Appreciating your very kind comments on preliminary portions of my own developments within the range of your great cosmic generalization, I take great pleasure …

 

>Dr. Alfred P. Haake

     Again thanking you for your very kind comments on my review of the Ohmann article published in the Harvard Business Review, and appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom …

2635      [From: Hi-Oaks, Rte 2, Largo, Florida, June 28, 1957]

Just to thank you for the advance copy of your “Citadel, Market and Altar”. It is next on my list of bedside books, and I hope to be in it in a few days.

/s/ Alfred P. Haake

     [From: October 26, 1957]

I have been a bit late in getting around to reading your book, but, like a well-prepared course of nourishment, waiting has but improved the flavor and added to my appreciation of what you have done with your book, “Citadel Market and Altar.”

 You have given me added confidence in my own thinking on the subject and a stimulation that will help me materially in further thought along those lines. Thank you for the very real contribution you have made to all of us.

/s/ Alfred P. Haake

 

Judge Learned Hand

         [From: United States Court House, New York,

 October 3, 1957]

I have your letter of the 24^th and your book “Citadel, Market and Altar,” for which I am much indebted to you. A glance at it seems to assure me that it contains a most interesting discussion. .. /s/ Learned Hand

 

Dr. Frederick Harbison

I appreciate your kind acknowledgment of my proposed

non-political solution of the Suez. Since the underlying principles of this solution have been extensively set out for a very much broader field of action in my volume, “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR”, I take great pleasure …

 

>Dr. F. A. Harper

[From: Foundation for Economic Education,

 Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, October 21, 1957]

It is wonderful to have Citadel, Market and Altar available in the literature on liberty.

 At the time of publication one can only guess whether or not any book is really great, because true merit is proved only on the wings of centuries of testing. But in my opinion, your book is a notable landmark, a breakthrough of scientific reasoning into the realm of human relationships. In fact, it may be so great a book that it will be bought by only those few persons who have pioneering minds.

/s/ Baldy  /Penned note:/ You may quote. F.A.H.

 

Dr. Gerald Heard

         [From: 545 Spoleto Drive, Santa Monica, California,

          August 17, 1957]

Please forgive me for not replying before to your letter in June and for your kindness in sending me both your paper and the book. I was being kept overly busy with a long program on mental health and so got behindhand on my correspondence. /s/ Gerald Heard

     [From: November 20, 1957]

…All of these things, as you know, can get one terribly behind in one’s correspondence and one’s reading — hence the delay in writing you and the postponed pleasure of looking at your book. /s/ Gerald Heard

Mrs. Adelaide Hering

[To: 10 West 33^rd Street, New York City 1, August 22, 1957] I feel sure that you, along with Mrs. Crain, will be interested in my recently pub­lished CITADEL, MARKET AID ALTAR. Accordingly, I am sending you a sample copy with the thought that you may enjoy having it yourself and also that you may find it the kind of book you would like to distribute on behalf of the libertarian cause. If this should be so, the general distribution to bookstores is in the hands of Mr. Lyle H. Munson, The Bookmailer, 209 East 34th Street, New York. With happy recollections of meeting you at AWARE, and with many best wishes … [Enc: “The Practice of Christian Freedom,” CMA under separate cover]

     [From: .. September 7, 1957]

Having read and thanked God for your inspiring and timely book, I was delighted to receive another copy from the author, himself. Most of us “Freedom Fighters” I find, have to learn that even the most eloquent enumerating of the sins of our opponents results in a sapping of energy. Your Citadel, Market and Altar points the way to a more profitable investment of our resources. Those who doubt or have perhaps forgotten that these resources are divine, will I am sure, be stronger and happier for your compelling testimony. Most certainly, I am!

I am mailing the enclosed circulars to about 500 more or less active book buyers and would be glad to include any advertising material you can spare. With all good wishes, Cordially, /s/ Adelaide Hering

         [To: … September 24, 1957]

It made me very happy to receive your cordial and appreciative letter of September 7^th. It is an inspiration to feel that one has touched off a harmonious spiritual response.

I am very sorry that, as yet, no generally descriptive material has been prepared for advertising CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. As soon as such is available, I shall certainly be glad to send you a supply for your mailing list. In the preparation of such advertising material, I expect to use extracts from letters of more or less influential persons, similar to those which I enclose.

I am very glad to be in personal communication with you, and look forward to seeing you again.

 

Dr. William Ernest Hocking

2665      [From: Madison, New Hampshire, July 31, 1957]

For two months I have been enjoying your letter and your book, and a sense of fellowship in a common cause, which is on my part rather undeserved. Undeserved, for I cannot command the width of well-ordered experience and research that has gone into CITADEL MARKET AND ALTAR. But fellowship, after all, because we have come through experience, not pure speculation, on some of the same ingredients of any durable civilization for the future.

 My type of experience – for my metaphysics is founded on experience, and conversely I consider experience metaphysical in the sense that day-by-day facts inhere in a “real” – is partly that of getting into scrapes and having to get out of them. I get angry about some public abuse, ferret out the principle of my wrath, and find a place for that principle in my theory of state, or history, or civilization, or law – my next job. Pugnacity keeps me fairly young at 84, but also gets me into “coronary” upsets, so I face the sad alternative of early demise or acquired serenity. I hope you do better.

/s/ Ernest Hocking

 

Mr. R. C. Hoiles

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom and, further, by the special request of Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane, I take great pleasure …

2647      [From: Freedom Newspapers, Inc., Register Building, Sixth and Sycamore, Santa Ana, California, July 9, 1957]

 

Thank you very much for your kind letter of June 20 and for the complimentary copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar.”

I am convinced that most of our trouble comes from giving the government the right to tax. I believe the government should be supported on a voluntary basis in proportion to the amount of property a man has protected. I am not quite so sure that the support of the police department should come from the owners of land.

We just built a new building here in Santa Ana that cost one-half a million dollars to build on land that we paid $50,000 for. It seems to me the building should bear its share on a voluntary basis; that if we did not want it protected by a group called the government, we could hire another group that we thought would protect our property better, and the protective groups must also have the right to refuse to try to protect any individual that they thought was too expensive to protect or should not be protected. The fire department, of course, should not be under the government. It should be under the insurance companies.

We have an estate here that owns 100,000 acres, some of it mountainous and some of it very valuable. He will not sell his land. He will only lease it. It seems to me it is too much power to give to any man the right to arbitrarily establish the rent of the land on which another man has built a building. I cannot believe that the man who builds a home or a factory on land that cannot be moved should be at the mercy of the land owner as to what rent he pays when the lease runs out. Possibly the reason he will not sell it is because of taxation.

We are enclosing clippings we ran yesterday and today commenting on your “Citadel, Market and Altar.” We are also enclosing “Here Is Our Policy…” and “The Christian Harmony in Competition.”

 

Mr. Arthur C. Holden

[From: Holden, Egan, Wilson and Corser, 215 East 37^th

 Street, New York City 16, July 30, 1957]

Thank you for the complimentary copy of your new book “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I am going to put it on the table beside my bed so that I can read it in the freshness of the early morning. I am glad to have this book, and glad to have it with the very touching inscription. I will write again after I have had time to spend upon it. In the meanwhile, I merely want you to know the book arrived safely. With good wishes to you always, /s/ Arthur C. Holden

 

Mr. Frank E. Holman

2602      [From: Holman, Mickelwait, Marion, Black & Perkins,

 Hoge Building, Seattle 4, Washington, June 19, 1957]

Thanks very much for sending me a copy of your remarkable book CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, and particularly for your gracious letter of transmittal. It has not been possible as yet for me to give the book the attention it deserves but in glancing through, it discloses that you have made a

remarkable contribution to the thinking on the subject.

/s/ Frank E. Holman

 

Rev. Irving E. Howard

     Having long read with interest your various contributions to “Christian Economics”, and admiring your general views, I am very happy to present you with a copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. You will note from the accompanying extracts from letters that it is being somewhat favorably received. I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. With many good wishes and personal regards, Sincerely yours,

 

Dr. Fred Hoyle

         [To: c/o Harper & Bros., 49 East 43^rd Street,

 New York 16, NY, November 5, 1957]

Appreciating your many eminent contributions to the advancement of physical and other science and its application in public and human affairs, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my “Citadel Market and Altar,” which I trust will attract your attention and be found worthy of the inspiration under which it was written and the purposes toward which it is aimed.

 

Mr. Edward F. Hutton

 

Mr. Aldous L. Huxley

 

Mr. Julian Huxley

         [To: 31 Pond Street, Hampstead, New York,

          November 6, 1957]

Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…

 

Dr. James C. Ingebretsen

2613      [From: James C. Ingebretsen, President,

Spiritual Mobilization, Box 877, San Jacinto,

California, June 25, 1957]

Ed Opitz was out here last week in connection with our annual Explorations with Gerald Heard and had with him a copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar”. After glancing through it and talking with him about it a bit, I was determined to acquire a copy at once. You can imagine my delight when your letter of June 3rd with a copy of the volume came to hand the following morning having been forwarded out to our new address here in the country. The May issue of “Faith and Freedom” tells in some detail the story of our exciting move.

As it happens, I am just leaving the office for a month’s trip which isn’t going to leave me any spare time for the sort of thoughtful reading I’d like to give your volume, but I am keeping it on top of my desk for attention when I return. I am convinced that nothing is more urgently needed today than a vital principle which will help us to understand how we, as individuals, maintain a growing and free relationship with the culture and society of which we are necessarily a part.

I congratulate you on what I am sure must be a profoundly intrigu­ing development of a theme which deserves the attention of every one of us. Meanwhile, I am passing the volume on to Bill Johnson in the thought that he will send it out for review for the next issue of “Faith and Freedom.”

    [December 20, 1957]

I’ll be writing you soon about your book — sorry for the delay. (signed)

 

Mr. Edward Isler

Appreciating your many friendly courtesies and your interest in public affairs, I take great pleasure …

         [From: 45 Wall Street, July 5:]

I have just returned from two weeks vacation and was both pleased and honored to find that you had sent me an autographed copy of your new book. It’s beautifully edited and I’m sure must be a great source of personal satisfaction to you. Needless to say I haven’t had time to read it but I feel sure that many of the theories and discussions will “ring a bell,” having in mind your enumerating the ideas over the years.

 

 Never having had an autographed copy before I’ve felt called upon to make a personal aside to my family and friends. I thought you would be interested in what I have said, to wit, Mr. Heath had as a most earnest collaborator his grandson Spencer MacCallum, knowing the satisfaction which that gave to you. I doubt whether many authors can claim this distinction. Personally it attests to a young and active mind and I for one would like to feel that I will be ready for such a vast undertaking if and when I reach your age. Again let me thank you and wish you well deserved success with your book. /s/ Edward Isler

 

Dr. Werner Jaeger

Appreciating your great influence in the world of literature and art and in the cause of human freedom, and remembering your kind comments on the “Energy Concept of Population,” I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Zay Jeffries

         [To: 280 Holmes Road, Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

          August 22, 1957]

Way back in World War II, you were kind enough to read the then uncompleted manuscript of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR and to make valuable suggestions as to its mode of publication. This volume has recently been published and, as you will see, has been commended thus far by a number of persons of standing in the intellectual field. It therefore gives me great pleasure ..

I have just re-read your most interesting (and humorous) comments of last November on the international situation regarding the Suez Canal, for which I thank you very much. I am very much in hopes that persons like yourself will find in CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR some sound forecasting of a mode of public administration that eventually will solve the practically perennial political impasse. …

[From: 1 Plastics Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

 September 5, 1957]

Your letter and the book “Citadel, Market and Altar” have been received and I have so far read only the copies of the letters and Mr. Chamberlain’s foreword because I have a heavy schedule of reading at the present time. I am sure I will enjoy the book and after I have read it, which may not be in the near future, I hope to write you again.

/s/ Zay Jeffries

 

Mr. John Knox Jessup

         [To: Wilton, Connecticut, August 22, 1957]

A year or so ago, I was very deeply impressed by THE DIGNITY OF MAN, written by your friend and associate, the late Russell Davenport. It seems to me that his vision of the future of free enterprise and a strictly non-political solution out of the evils of politi­cal administration is in considerable part fulfilled in my recently published volume, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I therefore take great pleasure in sending to you with my compliments a gift copy of this book as recently published. I trust you will enjoy reading it, and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. I intend this, above all, as a personal compliment to you. However, I would of course be happy if you should find it suitable for notice, by way of review or otherwise, in some publication with which you are connected.

 

Dr. Virgil Jordan

2653      [From: Aurora, West Virginia, July 15, 1957]

When I had the happy surprise of getting that advance copy of your book just before I left New York early in June for my summer retreat here in a log cabin atop the Alleghenies, I thought I would be able — as I have so often in my many past years of book reviewing — to read it and write you about it much sooner than this…. but I found it so stimulating, so fruitful of suggestion, so penetrating in its perception that I have not yet exhausted its content, and it will probably occupy my thoughts for the rest of the summer. So I must not longer postpone this note to thank you warmly for your thoughtfulness in bringing to my attention something I would greatly regret having missed.

     /s/ Virgil Jordan

 

Mr. Clarence Budington Kelland

2634      [From: Cedar Swamp Road, Glen Head, Long Island,

 New York]

     Many thanks for your Citadel, Market and Altar which I

shall read immediately, and I know with great pleasure and profit. I appreciate your nice accompanying letter.

     /s/ Clarence B. Kelland

 

Mrs. Vivien Kellems

2621      [From: Stonington, Connecticut, June 11, 1957]

     How nice of you to send me an advance copy of your book. I

have dipped into it two or three times and think it is wonderful although I must confess, far over my head. Good luck with it! You have certainly done a wonderful job.

/s/ Vivien Kellems

 

Mr. James S. Kemper

         [From: Kemper Insurance, Kemper Insurance

Building, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago 6, Illinois,

November 27, 1957]

As I have the highest regard for my good friend Dr. Jordan’s judgment, I am looking forward to reading your book at my very first opportunity.

/s/ James S. Kemper, Chairman

 

Mr. Wilmoore Kendall

         [To: National Review, 211 East 37^th Street, New York

 City 16, September 24, 1957]

Appreciating your many labors in the libertarian field, it gives me great pleasure ..  

 

Bishop Gerald Kennedy

         [To: 7120 Macapa Drive, Hollywood 28, California,

          September 10, 1957]

Appreciating your many contributions towards the realization of spiritual ideals, and at the special suggestion of Dr. G. Paul Butler, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I hope you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. With my highest compliments ..

 

Dr. Howard E. Kershner

[From: Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc., 250 West

 57^th Street, New York City 17, September 20, 1957]

Thank you very much for sending me a copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I have noted what others have said about this book and am eager for the time that I can sit down and enjoy it. Having just returned from a five-weeks lecture tour, my desk is piled high with “must” things and I fear it will be a little while before I can get to it.

[From: December 20, 1957]

..the January 10, 1958 issue of our paper will contain an Editorial about “Citadel, Market and Altar.” The greater portion of it is quoting from your wonderful book. I didn’t think I could improve on what you have said, and I preferred mostly to pass on a few significant quotes.

 

Dr. Charles F. Kettering

Appreciating your great achievements in the application of science to human welfare and public affairs, I take great pleasure…

 

Dr. Willford I. King

2583      [From: Committee for Constitutional Government,

205 East 42^nd Street, New York City 17, May 31, 1957]

I appreciate your courtesy in sending me a copy of your new book, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. You have certainly turned out a most unusual production, and in it have advanced theories which are decidedly original. I feel sure that they will give rise to much thought and discussion.

/s/ Willford I. King

 

Mr. Lawrence M. Lande

2643      [From: 4870 Cedar Crescent, Montreal, Quebec,

 July 5, 1957]

Received your book and I am in the process of reading same.

You are to be congratulated and it is a wonderful feeling on my part to have been at the inception of your brain-child. I almost feel like a godfather. The book itself is beautifully done in type-face, format, etc. and as to contents, you already know my opinion — I feel quite proud of knowing the author.     Helen Vera sends her best and joins me in our felicitations. /s/ Lawrence

 

Rose Wilder Lane

2587     [From: Route 6, Box 42, Danbury, Connecticut

 June 9, 1957]

It is impossible to express my delight in your CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. This is the book I have been wanting, waiting for, indeed weakly yelling in print for: an empirical, scientific approach to “social science.” If only I knew enough, I would have tried to write it myself. I am happier than larks ever were, now that it is written.

 

(Also, a minor but contributing pleasure, its existence justifies my dogged optimism and thus pets my personal vanity. How truly you say, there is no bibliography. In a wilderness of books, with a sprouting undergrowth of “libertarians,” how little — if any — intelligence, or horse sense. How little I have, myself. If any. Yet in spite of everything, in opposition to all evidence and argument, I have stubbornly denied that “All is lost; there is no hope; the revolution — a la Garet Garrett — was.” At lowest ebb, I could at least cling to Berrill’s MAN’S EMERGING MIND and have faith that after millennia… And now, all unexpected, your book. I thank you.) — I need a new word, but there is none.

 

Basically, you are right, absolutely. No rational person can doubt that. And of course, what you will meet is not a discussion of your basis but a clamor about details of the structure that you erect on it. I myself am slightly confused about your theory of value, but that’s trivial in comparison to your basic thesis. I shall try to resolve that confusion myself, not bothering you about it.

 

 Now arguing myself unknown, I don’t know the Science of Society Foundation. Could you tell me about it?

 

I want a number of persons to read this book. May I ask two questions? 1. Can there be any reduction in price for small quantities? 2. Has the book already been sent to:

R.C. Hoiles

Frank Meyer

Orval Watts

Jasper Crane

Richard Cornuelle

Kenneth Templeton

Robert LeFevre (The Freedom School)

Howard Pew

Frank Chodorov

W.C. Mullendore

 

With more gratitude, admiration and congratulations than I can say, and every earnest good wish to you,

 Yours sincerely, /s/ Rose Wilder Lane

Mr. Victor Lasky

2618      [From: 333 West 57^th Street, New York City,

 June 27, 1957]

I have just returned from a trip and have found your new book, “Citadel, Market and Altar” in the mail. I want you to know how much I appreciate your inscription and I am looking forward to reading it. I did read John Chamberlain’s bit and, as usual, he’s superb.

/s/ Victor Lasky

 

Mr. David Lawrence

         [To: 1241 – 24^th Street NW, Washington D.C.,

 November 5, 1957]

Appreciating your enormous influence in the cause of human freedom, it gives me special pleasure to present to you…

         [From: November 13, 1957]

I will read the book with much interest and do appreciate your thinking of me.  /s/ David Lawrence

 

Hon. J. Bracken Lee

[From: For America, 1001 Connecticut Avenue N.W.,  Washington 6, D.C., July 25, 1957]

I sincerely appreciate the copy of your book entitled, “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I have not as yet had the time to read this book, but I am sure that I am going to enjoy it very much. As soon as I have finished reading it, I shall write you further. Thanks again. J. Bracken Lee, National Chairman

     [From: For America…, November 7, 1957]

Governor Lee is out of the State, but before leaving he asked me to write and tell you that he has enjoyed the book “Citadel, Market and Altar” very much and appreciated receiving a copy of it.

 He believes that the outright repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, which of course is the income tax, would do more to restore honesty to government than anything else.

 I am enclosing some literature of this subject, which Governor Lee requested that I send you. I am sure you will find it most interesting.

 

Mr. Robert LeFevre

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom and, further, by the special request of Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane, I take great pleasure …

2636          [From: The Freedom School, Inc., Box 165, Colorado

 Springs, Colorado, June 28, 1957]

We are honored to receive with your compli­ments the personally inscribed copy of your book, “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I am looking forward with keen anticipation to reading the book, for three reasons: My preliminary correspondence with you indi­cates an exposure to your thinking should prove stimulating and valuable. Baldy Harper has included your name among those of real merit in the pursuit of an ever-greater understanding of human liberty. And, of course, a recommendation by Rose Wilder Lane that this book be brought to our attention here at Freedom School, creates an immediate desire to delve into it. Please know how grateful we are to have this addition to the Freedom School library, where students from all parts of the country can have access to it.

/s/ Robert LeFevre

   

Mr. Fulton Lewis, Jr.

         [To: 2800 Upton Street NW, Washington, D.C.

 November 5,1957]

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom, it gives me special pleasure to present to you with my compliments… [Extracts from letters and reviews; CMA]

 

Mr. James F. Lincoln

Appreciating your outstanding contribution to the advancement of our free-enterprise system, I take great pleasure …

 

Mr. William Loeb

2629      [From: President, Manchester Union Leader, Manchester,

 New Hampshire, June 14, 1957]

Thank you indeed for the compliments contained in your letter of May 29, but more so for the copy of your book which I will read with interest. /s/ William Loeb

 

Dr. Harley L. Lutz

2631      [From: National Association of Manufacturers,

 2 East 48^th Street, New York City 17, June 18, 1957]

Please accept my thanks for the advance copy of your interesting book. I have had opportunity as yet for only a brief examination, but even this reveals that our thinking runs along similar lines. Under separate cover I am sending to you, with my compliments, a small book and two pamphlets which you may not have seen. /s/ Harley L. Lutz

 

Mr. Eugene Lyons

Appreciating your great interest in the application of science in the cause of human freedom, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. Fritz Machlup

2593      [From Department of Political Science,

 The Johns Hopkins University, June 12, 1957]

I have just received your book, CITADEL MARKET AND ALTAR, and wish to thank you for the kindness of sending it to me, with the friendly inscription. I hope I shall soon have time to read it. I look forward to it. /s/ Fritz Machlup

 

Dean Clarence E. Manion

[To: 403 St. Joseph Bank Building, South Bend,

 Indiana, August 22, 1957]

Regarding you as an eminently key figure in the libertarian

field, it is with a great deal of pleasure that I present to you an in­scribed copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. You will note that this volume is being somewhat favorably received by Rose Wilder Lane, Dr. Virgil Jordan, Dr. Wil­liam Ernest Hocking and others of influence in the libertarian cause. I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also inspired — by some of its un­usual points of view.

     [From: Doran, Manion, Boynton & Kamm, St. Joseph Bank

 Building, South Bend 1, Indiana, August 29, 1957]

Thanks. I shall be glad to read your Citadel, Market and Altar. Sincerely, /s/ Clarence Manion

 

Mr. John J. McCloy

         [To: 18 Pine Street, New York 5, NY, November 5, 1957]

I wish to thank you even so belatedly for your most thoughtful and interesting letter of April 23^rd. My lack of response has been due chiefly to circumstances in connection with publication of the results of my studies over a good many years of the whole matter of proprietary as opposed to political organization. Your analysis of this Canal situation is enlightening indeed.

Appreciating your very great constructive work in public finance and related affairs, it gives me special pleasure to present to you with my compliments…  [Extracts from letters and reviews; CMA under separate cover]

    [From: November 8, 1957]

Your letter of November 5^th enclosing extracts from letters and reviews on your book, “Citadel, Market and Altar” is received just as I am about to leave for Europe. It is indeed thoughtful of you to send me an inscribed copy of your book and I look forward to reading it upon my return.

     /s/ John J. McCloy

 

Mr. Raymond V. McNally

         [135 E. 54^th Street, New York City, August 22, 1957]

Yours is one of the minds that can bring a great deal to a book. … I am sending the book under separate cover, and enclosing herewith the lines that I read at the Annual Meeting of The Christian Freedom Foundation last May. You will note that this is a partial treatment of the same matter as CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, but from the specifically religious point of view.

 

Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees

Appreciating your many contributions to the philosophy of science in its relation to public and human affairs, I take great pleasure …

         [4401 Kahala Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 29, 1957]

Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of your book, “Citadel, Market and Altar,” which I shall read with interest. I am sure that your presentation is an interesting view of the subject.

/s/ C. E. Kenneth Mees

 

Dr. M. F. Ashley Montagu

 

Admiral Ben Moreell

2597      [From: 3 Gateway Center, P.O. Box 1347, Pittsburgh 22,

 Pennsylvania, July 14, 1957]

It was very kind of you to write your letter of June 1 and to send your book, “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR”. I am going to read this book with a great deal of interest. I have already thumbed through it and it holds the promise of very instructive reading for me. I appreciate especially your very generous inscription and the kind statements made in your letter.  /s/ Ben Moreell

 

Mr. Sterling Morton

         [From: 120 S. Lasalle Street, Room 932, Chicago 3,

 Illinois, November 12, 1957]

Thank you very much for your letter of November 5 and for the copy of “Citadel, Market and Altar,” which I shall take to California with me shortly and endeavor to give it the careful attention it deserves. Certainly receipt of this fine volume is considerably more than equal compensation for a single letter!

With many thanks, and trusting that our paths may cross sometime, /s/ Sterling Morton

 

Dr. Herbert J. Muller

         [From: Department of English, Indiana University,

 Bloomington, Indiana, October 6, 1957]

I apologize for this very tardy acknowledgment of your book. It was forwarded to me just after I had left for a summer in Europe, and then got shunted aside; so I did not find it until last week, and have not yet had time to read it. But I look forward to doing so, and meanwhile hope you will accept my thanks with my apologies.

/s/ Herbert J. Muller

 

Robert J. Niess /Sp?/

[From: Department of Romance Languages, University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 22, 1957]

     Thank you very much indeed for the copy you sent me

recently of your Citadel, Market and Altar. I have by no means finished it, but feel I must write you to thank you and to express my interest not only in your point of view but in your ordering of your material. You make a most convincing case and I am glad indeed that Miss McAdams mentioned my name to you. Will you give her my best regards, please? I am most grateful and most deeply impressed by your work. Accept my sincere congratulations.

 

Dr. Edwin G. Nourse

2609      [From: 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington 6, D.C.,

 June 22, 1957]

I wish to thank you heartily for the autographed copy of your forthcoming book Citadel, Market and Altar. From the accompanying letter, I infer that you have probably read some of my writ­ings and thus have a fairly definite notion that what you have written would find an attentive and appreciative reader when it came under my eye. At all events, that is the case, and ideas that seemed in my mind at least to be generally consonant with yours have been developed in my Price Making in A Democracy and my Economics in the Public Service, in both cases in the opening chapters.

Your book comes to me at a most opportune time, as I am doing some exploratory writing which will yield some addresses, and perhaps chapters in an eventual book. I have already read a number of your chapters and expect to keep the volume at hand and to turn to it repeatedly as a respectful and appreciative explorer in the field in which your work seems to me very suggestive and rewarding.

     /s/ Edwin G. Nourse

 

Mr. John Merrill Olin

         [From: River House, P.O.Box 375, Alton, Illinois,

October 7, 1957]

I am glad Dr. Jordan suggested to you that a copy be sent

to me. I look forward to an opportunity to read this book.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kenneth Parker

         [To: 69 Appleton Avenue, Pittsfield, Massachusetts,

          August 22, 1957]

 

Mr. Cola G. Parker

         [From: Neenah, Wisconsin, October 7, 1957]

     I shall read the book with great interest at my first

 opportunity.  /s/

 

Dr. W. A. Paton

2630      [School of Business Administration, University of

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 18, 1957]

     It was very kind of you to send me a complimentary,

autographed copy of your new book “Citadel, Market and Altar.” Thus far I have only sampled the book but I’ve liked the sample very much. Thanks and best wishes.

     /s/ W. A. Paton

 

>Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

         [From: Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue at 29^th

 Street, New York 1, NY, December 24, 1957]

CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, by Spencer Heath is an extraordinarily interesting and thought-provoking book. It is admirably designed to stimulate creative discussion and thinking and, therefore, should substantially contribute to progress.

 

Mr. J. C. Penney

         [To: J.C. Penny 330 West 34^th Street, New York 1, NY,

 November 6, 1957]

Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…

[From: Chairman of the Board, J.C. Penny Company,

 Inc., November 8, 1957]

The favorable comments concerning your book, “Citadel, Market and Altar”, by those who have read it, causes me to look forward to the receiving and reading of the copy you are sending me. Thank you in advance for your thoughtfulness in sending me a copy of your book. Enclosed are some pamphlets which you may find of interest.

/s/ J.C. Penney

     [From: November 18, 1957]

On my return to the office from a recent business trip I find your book, “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR”, awaiting me. I certainly appreciate receiving this book and I shall look forward to reading it in the near future.

/s/ J.C. Penney

 

>Mr. William H Peterson

[To: Graduate School of Business Administration,

 90 Trinity Place, New York 6, NY, November 5, 1957]

I am afraid I owe you a very great apology for my seeming inattention to your excellent letter of April 16^th. The fact is that I have been so occupied with the publication of a considerable treatise on proprietary administration as the only sound alternative to the political.

Thinking that you may be interested in a fundamental research along these lines, and appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom, it gives me special pleasure to present to you with my compliments…  [Extracts from letters and reviews; CMA under separate cover]

 

Mr. Samuel B. Pettengill

2591      [Penned from: Robin Lawn, Grafton, Vermont,

 June 11, 1957]

Thank you kindly for sending me an advance copy of Citadel, Market & Altar. It is plain that you have done, for many years, original thinking. At first glance, I know it goes way beyond my time-worn path. I have thought for years, however, that we on the free market side of public questions have screamed too much and been too doleful — “America at the Cross Roads” etc etc — too negative. You present an optimistic view and a new vista without sacrificing the ancient foundations of freedom. Long may your wave! /s/ Sam Pettengill

 

Towner Phelan

2622      [From: St. Louis Union Trust Company, St. Louis 2,

 Missouri, June 10, 1957]

I am very pleased indeed to have a complimentary advanced copy of your new book “Citadel, Market and Altar.” I look forward to reading it with great interest. Thank you for your kind comments about the limited contribution to free enterprise and individual liberty which my writings have made. /s/ Towner Phelan

 

Mr. Paul L. Poirot

         [From: Foundation for Economic education,

 Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, October 1, 1957]

Thank you so much for your kindness in sending an inscribed copy of Citadel, Market and Altar, thus removing my last flimsy excuse for postponing its study and the personal application of the ideas it affords.

Ed Opitz tells me he is awaiting a review by Rose Wilder Lane.

I’m also grateful for the copy of “The Practice of Christian Freedom,” the theme of which you have in mind developing into another book.  /s/ Paul

 

The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. D. deSola Pool

I was very happy to make your acquaintance at my book birthday party at the Plaza, since my daughter had told me many interesting and delightful things about her travels with you. She also made mention of your son at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose attention I would be most happy to draw to the contents of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR with its practical mathematical and rationalistic foundation for spiritual ideals. I therefore take great pleasure …

2644      [From: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, New York

 23, N.Y., penned from P.O.B. 67, Ocean Beach, Fire

 Island, N.Y., July 2, 1957]

Let me thank you for your kindness in sending Mrs. Pool and me an inscribed copy of your book. A first turning of the pages shows that it is more than interesting; it is important. Now that we have come away from town we should have time to read it with the care it deserves. May you see a fine fruition of your study. It was good to meet you.

     (Signed)

         [To: 18 West 70th Street, New York City 23, September

 10, 1957]

It was very generous of you to write me so cordially in your letter of July 2^nd. I trust you enjoyed a happy vacation on Fire Island and look forward to the possibility of further acquaintance with you this fall when I am in New York.

 I am now thinking of sending a dozen or more copies of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR to Jewish philosophical and religious publications, in the hope that at least some of them will find it suitable for review. I trust there will be no impropriety in including with the books an extract from your very generous letter, together with similar appreciations from Dr. William Ernest Hocking and others that I have been happy to receive.

 My daughter joins me in my very best wishes and appreciations.

     [Penned from: 12 West 72^nd Street, New York City 23,

 September 14, 1957]

By all means you may use the quotation from my letter in sending out review copies of your “Citadel, Market and Altar.” May your challenging book find the right readers and result in farseeing action.

 

>Dr. Roscoe Pound

         [To: Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge 38,

 Massachusetts, August 22, 1957]

Remembering your great influence in the development of juridical science in the direction of human freedom, I take great pleasure in presenting to you an inscribed copy of my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, which you will see from the enclosed quotations is being somewhat favorably received. I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. With my best compliments and great respect, I remain sincerely yours,

          [From: .. August 26, 1957]

I appreciate very much your sending me the inscribed copy of the recently published “Citadel, Market and Altar.” It has not come yet but I shall look forward to reading it more especially as the subject which is indicated is one in which I have a deep and abiding interest.

         [From: .. September 6, 1957

I have just received the book “Citadel, Market and Altar –  Emerging Society” which you were good enough to send me. I have been able to look it over only enough to make it clear that here is a book of the first importance which I must read carefully and thoroughly. At the moment I am wrestling with arrears of work which must have the right of way, but I am looking forward to a thorough acquaintance with an outstanding contribution to a crucial problem of our time. Yours very truly, /s/ Roscoe Pound

     [From: Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge 38,

 Massachusetts, October 21, 1957]

A more careful reading of your book “Citadel, Market and Altar — Emerging Society” confirms the opinion which I formed on first looking it over. Indeed it is an outstanding contribution to a crucial problem of our times.”  /s/ Roscoe Pound

 

Mr. Edgar Monsanto Queeny

[From: 1700 South Second Street, Saint Louis,

 Missouri, September 30, 1957]

Thank you so much for yours of the sixteenth and the reviews of “Citadel, Market and Altar.”

The book sounds like a thought-provoking one, indeed, and I look forward with interest to its receipt and reading.

 With appreciation and best wishes, believe me

 Sincerely yours

 

Dr. William Rappard

[From: Graduate Institute of International Studies, 132 rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland,

September 17, 1957]

In the absence of Professor Rappard, who is unfortnately ill at present, I beg to thank you very warmly, in his name, for the beautiful book entitled “Citadel Market and Altar” you were good enough to send him, with such a friendly dedication. I am sure he will be delighted to see and to read it as soon as he gets better. Sincerely yours, (signed) Alice Goebel, Secretary

/Dr. Rappard died months later./

 

Mr. Henry Regnery

         [To: 64 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 4, Illinois,

 September 4, 1957]

Thank you for your letter of August 30^th, replying to mine of May 10^th, with your comments and suggestions. Your letter suggests to me that you may not have received the copy of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR which my records indicate was sent to you early in June. I was particularly anxious for you to see this volume in its finally published form. I am therefore sending another to you by current mail. I hope you will enjoy reading it, and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.  Cordially yours,

     [From: September 12, 1957]

As Mr. Regnery is in Europe just now, I am taking the liberty of acknowledging . . 

 

Dr. Donald R. Richberg

2614      [From: 1400 Blue Ridge Road, Charlottesville,

 Virginia, June 27, 1957]

I have just received your book “Citadel, Market and Altar” which you sent me together with a complimentary note. From a quick dip into it I can see that it is well worth reading as a stimulus to intelligent thinking. Of course the intelligence of the thinking must depend a great deal on the reader, but at least you have done your part competently.

 

Mr. E.V. Rickenbacker

[From: Office of the Chairman of the Board, Eastern Airlines, Eastern Airlines Building, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, NY, October 7, 1957]

I am certain that I will derive a great deal of benefit from this book, and I am looking forward to reading it with interest. /s/ Eddie Rickenbacker

 

 

*Mr. Amaury de Riencourt

         [To: c/o Coward, McCann, Inc., 210 Madison Avenue,

 New York City, September 10, 1957]

I have been greatly impressed by several of the reviews of your book, THE COMING CAESARS, which I plan to read carefully and thoroughly. Your development of the theme seems to be far more perfect than any heretofore. It is most timely, and I am happy to see your work getting such wide recognition.

It occurs to me that you might be interested in a possible practical alternative to the political administration of public affairs, which has proven so fruitful of evil results.

Accordingly, I take great pleasure ..

    [From: Bellevue, Canton de Geneve, Switzerland,

 September 30, 1957]

Many thanks for your book. I will read it, I am sure, with very great interest. /s/ Amaury de Riencourt

 

Dr. David Riesman

         [To: 5621 University Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois,

 November 5, 1957]

Appreciating your wide influence inthe cause of human freedom, and at the special suggestion of my friend Dr. Sylvester Petro, it gives me great pleasure to present…

         [From: Department of Sociology, The University of

 Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois]

I reciprocate by sending you a talk I gave at Antioch which would seem to have some bearing on your own historical concerns.  /s/ David Riesman

 

Mr. A. W. Robertson

         [From P.O. Box 2278, Pitsburgh 30, Pennsylvania,

 October 28, 1957]

At an early date, I hope to have time to read it and may write you further after doing so. /s/ A. W. Robertson

 

Mr. Richard H. Roffman

2641      [From: 675 West End Avenue, New York City, June 1957]

Thanks so much for opportunity to be there at the party this week at the Plaza thru Lilly Rona and enjoyed meeting you so much. And thanks for the book of course. And do hope that you will continue me on your mailing list for notices of events. /s/ Dick Roffman

 

Dr. Wilhelm Roepke

         [To: 45 Ave. de Champel, Geneva, Switzerland,

 August 22, 1957]

I was greatly pleased by your cordial reply of April 15th to my letter calling your attention to a proposed free enterprise solu­tion to the problem of the Suez Canal.

 I take it you share my conviction that the development of some mode of politic adminis­tration alternative to the political and coer­cive is essential even for the maintaining of our present civilization — not to mention its future growth.

 Recently published in this country is a contribution of my own looking to such a deeper understanding of the free enterprise principle as may lead it into the field of public and community affairs in lieu of the present policies of taxation and war. I therefore take great pleasure in presenting …

 

*James M. Rogers

[To: Ingersoll Milling Machine Company, Rockford,

 Illinois, September 10, 1957]

Among the many pleasant experiences at the June Seminar at F.E.E., one of the most stimulating was your account of the doings at Rockford, especially in view of its long-term policies and effects.

My grandson, Spencer MacCallum, spent a day as a guest of Dr. Harper and his family at the August Seminar at Irvington. He gives me happy report of his meeting with the two fine young men whom you described to us as examples of the wonderful possibilities to be found in the younger generation.

It occurs to me that you might be especially inter­ested in the long-view approach towards economic and business understanding that is taken in my recently pub­lished CITADEL, MARKET AMD ALTAR. I have been intending all summer to place a copy in your hands. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compli­ments an inscribed copy. I hope you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. I shall be very happy indeed if the volume marks out a substantial beginning of a sound and vital philosophy in support of free enterprise capitalism.

With many best wishes for the success of your Septem­ber Conference in Rockford and for the continued growth of your work …

          [From: September 10, 1957]

I was more delighted than this communication can possibly convey upon receiving the autographed copy of your very handsome book. I haven’t had a chance to look through it for I have just received it, but have talked to several about it and know from what they say that it will be a treasure for me.

 I was certainly pleased to become acquainted with you at FEE in June. I have a hobby of collecting memories of my acquaintanceship with fine scholars. The availability of experiences that enable me to add to my collection is, of course, very limited — not because I don’t get around, but because true scholars are so rare. I had the feeling as we talked briefly on occasions at FEE that you are certainly one of these. The things I have established since that time confirm that. It is a pleasure to know you, and I trust our paths will cross again.

 

Mr. Archibald B. Roosevelt

          [To: 200 East 66^th Street, New York City,

 September 24, 1957]

Since being recently so much away from New York, I have not been able to be in personal touch with you as much as I had expected. Nei­ther have I sent you a gift copy of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, to which I feel you are greatly entitled. So I now hope to make good the defi­ciency by sending you an inscribed copy. I trust you will enjoy reading it …

Letters I have received from more or less prominent persons encourage my hope that this work of mine may be of pioneer significance in the establishment of a sound and inspiring social philosophy based exclusively on the principles of freedom and free enterprise alone.

When I am again in New York, I hope to take advantage of our mutual proposal to have a bite of lunch together.

 

>Dr. E. Merrill Root

         [From: 3221 Berwyn Lane, Richmond, Indiana,

 November 15, Indiana]

I am ashamed and sorry to have been so long in writing about the book of my dear friend, Spencer Heath. I was so terribly busy with intensive and intense work on a book of my own, last summer, and so overwhelmed with my college work and writing since my return here, that I have not had a day, it seemed, to recollect my emotions in tranquility and really write anything adequate. This may seem a poor excuse, but it is a too solid reason!

I think the book is a beautiful as well as a wise piece of work. The style of it is a joy to one who loves good writing. The wisdom is unique and original in emphasis, while universal in truth and scope. This is one of the finest books that uphold a conservative sanity and a libertarian dynamic.

 You may quote any or all of this, as you wish…

 The comments you enclose are excellent. I trust that they, and the book’s own inherent wisdom and beauty, have brought it great success.  /s/ E. Merrill Root

 

Dr. Dean Russell

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom, I take great pleasure …

 

>Dr. O. Glenn Saxon

[Penned letter from: 53 Edgehill Road, New Haven 11, Connecticut, October 20, 1957 — prof Economics, Yale]

Dear Miss Stead: Thank you for your letter of October 14 which came to me as a reminder that I had not been able, up to recently, to give proper attention to Mr. Heath’s Citadel, Market and Altar.

 It has been a real thrill to explore it. It is not only a highly stimulating and exciting presentation of the fundamental philosophy and principles of a free society but shows the positive, constructive, and flexible features of those principles that are essential to the survival of any society in the revolutionary changes through which the entire world is now rushing to an early climax.

/s/ O. Glenn Saxon

 

Rabbi Benjamin Schultz

2596     [From: 220 West 42^nd Street, New York City 18,

 June 13, 1957]

I appreciate very much your sending me the book, with your valued inscription. I am beginning to read it, and I am taking it on my vacation. It seems most thoughtful as well as beautifully written and I certainly respect the opinion of John Chamberlain. I know you by reputation, and again please be assured that I deem it a great honor to be the recipient of your favors.  /s/ Benj. Schultz

 

Dr. George Gaylord Simpson

 

Dr. S. Fred Singer

2625 Remembering your very wide philosophic as well as

scientific conceptions, and your interest in the current societal organization and development, I take pleasure …

         [From: Department of Physics, University of Maryland,

          College Park, Maryland, June 11, 1957]

     It is with great pleasure that I received your book this

morning. I am looking forward very much to reading it and absorbing some of the ideas which motivated you in its writing. Thank you again for sending me a copy.

/s/ S. F. Singer

 

Dr. Edmund Sinnott

Your several books, including “BIOLOGY OF THE SPIRIT,” have been a great aid and inspiration to me. I take great pleasure …

 

Bradford B. Smith

2626      [From: United States Steel Corporation, 71 Broadway,

 New York 6, N.Y., June 11, 1957]

     Thank you ever so much for sending me your “Citadel, Market

and Altar” which just came in. I, of course, have not yet had an opportunity to read it, but I have put it down as “one of the musts.” The brief peek I have taken inside the covers of the book certainly whets my appetite.

/s/ Bradford Smith

 

Dr. Agnes Snyder

[To: Department of Education, Adelphi College, Garden   City, New York, August 22, 1957]

… I hope you will find this volume helpful and above all stimulating towards an understanding of the creative beauty of the social organization (non-political) with which we are endowed. From my acquaintance with you in the old New College days, I am sure there are few people with whom I am so happy to share my ideals and understandings as with you.

 

*Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman

         [To: 830 Park Avenue, New York City,

 September 10, 1957]

Appreciating your many contributions towards the realization of spiritual ideals, and at the special suggestion of Dr. G. Paul Butler, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I hope you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view. With my highest compliments, I remain ..

     [From 520 Park Avenue at 60^th Street,New York 21, NY,

      October 1, 1957]

On my return from Europe I find an autographed copy of your book CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR.

 I am looking forward to reading it with pleasure and profit. A hasty glance reveals a richness of its content. It strikes me that you are a man who has ability to do things and time to think about them. That is a rare combination these days, and I am so glad that there are men like yourself who are stretching our mental muscles with a vision of the meaning and purpose of living in this atomic age.

 I hope that I may have the pleasure of meeting you sometime personally.  /s/ Ralph W. Sockman

 

Dr. Josef Solterer

I am terribly sorry I have not yet been able to study your exhaustive review of Dr. von Mises’ “HUMAN ACTION,” but I look forward to doing so before very long. Of late, I have been exceedingly occupied with the printing, publication and promotion of my own more highly generalized contribution in the same field. I take pleasure …  I look forward to seeing you again and discussing with you both your critical and your constructive contributions in the cause of human freedom.

 

Mr. Stephen Spender

         [To: “ENCOUNTER”, Panton House, 25 Haymarket, SW1,

 London, England, November 6, 1957]

Remembering your kind letter that we received several months ago in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…

 

Mr. H. E. Spitsbergen

         [From: Liberty and Freedom Press, 1311 G Street NW,

 Washington DC, December 1957]

Philosophers and scholars, especially in the field of economics, should not be allowed to say anything until they have read “Citadel, Market and Altar.” The chapter on “private property is in itself a noteworthy contribution.

 

Mr. Peter Steele

         [From: General Electric Company, 570 Lexington Avenue,

 New Your 22, NY, October 21, 1957]

I .. am looking forward to reading it /CM&A/ with great interest, particularly after reading the comments which you enclosed. /s/ Peter Steele

 

Dr. Celestin J. Steiner

2624      [From: President, University of Detroit, McNichols

          Road at Livernois, Detroit 21, Michigan, June 11,

 1957]

Thanks so much for your thoughtfulness and generosity in providing me with an advance copy of “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR.” I am anticipating informative and inspiring hours of reading.  /s/ Celestin J. Steiner, S.J.

 

Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope

         [To: 745 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, NY,

          November 6, 1957]

Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…

     [From: November 14, 1957]

My thanks go to you for the interesting (at first glance) book “Citadel, Market and Altar.” Good luck,

/s/ Herbert Bayard Swope

 

Mr. Max Thurn

         [To: International Bank, 1818 H Street, Washington,

 D.C., September 4, 1957]

I was impressed with the quality of your interrogations at the various sessions of the seminar at Irvington this past June. I do not remember having discussed with you any of the ideas pertinent to human life and action set forth in my CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, recently published. I therefore take pleasure in presenting to you an inscribed copy with my compliments which I trust will attract your attention and be found worthy of the inspiration under which it was written and the purposes toward which it is  aimed. It was a pleasure meeting and talking with you, and I shall be happy at any opportunity of doing so again.

     [From: International Bank for Reconstruction and

 Development, October 8, 1957]

This is to thank you for your letter of September 4^th and your kind offer to send me a copy of your recently published book. In the meantime I have received it. I can assure you that I am very interested in its contents. It was a great pleasure meeting you in Irvington. Looking forward to seeing you again some time.. /s/ Max Thurn

 

 

Dr. John J. Tigert

2623      [Penned letter from: 215 Boulevard, Gainesville,

 Florida, June 11, 1957]

     I write you to say that I am profoundly grateful for your

book “Citadel, Market and Altar,” which you have so generously autographed and sent to me. I shall read it with a great deal of profit and pleasure, I am sure. Meantime I reciprocate your compliments and trust that this finds you well. /s/ John J. Tigert

 

Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee

Appreciating your many contributions to the advancement of philosophic thought and its great influence on public affairs, I take great pleasure …

Traveling abroad, acknowledged by his secretary

 

Dr. Ruth Underhill

         [From: 2623 South Clayton Street, Denver 10, Colorado,

 September 13, 1957]

Citadel, Market and Altar came several days ago but I delayed writing you until I could say by experience how much I enjoyed it. I certainly share your feeling about the cramping effect of bureaucracy and, in off moments, for years, I have been beating my brains wondering what other kind of organization was possible. I am still not sure that I agree that your proposals are possible, but the book is absorbing just the same.

 Thanks so much for sending it to me. And, by the way, I shall be in New York Sept. 23-28 (at a ghastly hotel called the Dixie, 7^th Ave and 43^rd. It’s convenient for bus service up the river.) If you are in town it would be very pleasant to see you. Cordially ..

 

Dr. V. Orval Watts

Appreciating your great influence in the cause of human freedom and, further, by the special request of Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane, I take great pleasure …

2638      [From: 1185 East Foothill Boulevard, Altadena, California,

 June 29, 1957]

Many thanks for sending me a copy of your new book, CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. I have already begun reading it, and I find it stimulating and enlightening as all of your other writings have been. I have never forgotten the new understanding which I received from you on the subject of land rent and Georgism, and your new book is similarly helping to advance my thinking in other directions.

 More to let you know I am reading your book and thinking about it than in any antagonistic spirit, I should like to say that I would have used the term “freedom” instead of “democracy” to cover the condition of “Doing things together by consent of all and coercion of none.” (p.233) On the other hand, I especially like your definitions of “capital” and “labor.” “Economics” I would define more widely than you do (p.235), to include the relationships involved in the use of human energy as labor (as well as the use of property as capital). I suspect that your omission here was a slight oversight rather than the result of a conscious effort to exclude services of persons that involve no capital (e.g., singers, teachers). Adam Smith and some of his followers excluded singers, domestic servants, teachers, etc. from the category of “productive” labor on the ground that their products were not durable. I doubt that you had this in mind.

 Your definition of slavery as an enforced choice of evils (p. 45) is an ideological gem. I shall certainly use it, along with a host of other brilliant feats of logic.

I can guess from my own efforts how much effort — agony — of body, mind and spirit went into the writing of this book. I shall study it, and know that I shall profit from it. Dr. Kershner of Christian Economics should also be much inter­ested in it. The Foundation for Econ. Ed. in Irvington needs its message, and I hope you may get a chance to deliver some of it to them in person, for their thinking there is so corrupted (as it seems to me) by the desire to defend taxation that it is likely to take personal contact to persuade them of the value of your book.

Thank you again — not merely for the copy of the book, but more especially for the vast effort you put into the thought and writing.  /s/ V. Orval Watts

    /Added in pen:/

      I spend most of my time these days (as for more than a

year past) on my history of “Money and Banking in American Politics” (from 1620 to the present). It is a good year from publication, but under separate cover I’ll send you a copy of a report I wrote recently for the So. Calif. Edison Co., which will suggest the point of view of my history. Friends tell me that so far the MSS. is “fascinating”..etc.   V.O.W.

 

>Mr. Louis B. Wehle

         [To: 14 Wall Street, New York 5, NY, November 5, 1957]

I must apologize to my apparent indifference to your very, very interesting letter of May 17^th. You give me reason to think that I have not explored all the angles affecting international corporations, as you apparently have done.

I would have been glad to pursue this matter further with you but for the fact that I have been intensely engaged in promoting the general idea of proprietary administration at the level of public affairs in general. This, to my regret, has prevented me from keeping in communication with you and taking advantage of your kind suggestion of some personal discussion. I hope in the near future to make amends for this.

Meantime, it gives me special pleasure to present to you with my compliments…  [Extracts from letters and reviews; CMA under separate cover]

 

    [From: 1150 Fifth Avenue, New York 28, NY,

 November 20, 1957]

Thanks for your cordial letter of November 5^th and for our book which followed with its flattering inscription. Insofar as I have had the opportunity to look into it, the book beckons with its diverse, wide reaches and its assurances of social-political syntheses to come, if what you hope for can gain acceptance.

 

Dr. Paul Weiss

Appreciating your encouragement of quite long ago, I take great pleasure …

 

Dr. John Archibald Wheeler

 

Mr. C. M. White

[From: Chairman of the Board, Republic Steel

Corporation, Republic Building, Cleveland 1, Ohio,

October 2, 1957]

Thank you so much for sending me the autographed copy of CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. Virgil was so extravagant in his praise of this book that I am looking forward eagerly to reading it. Many, many thanks. /s/ C M White

 

Mr. Felix Wittmer

     Apropos of “POLITICS VERSUS PROPRIETORSHIP,” to which you

made reference in a very pleasant letter to me some two or three years ago, I am now on the point of publishing a considerable volume on the subject of human and social organization which leads up to the proprietary type of community administration being the next great forward step in the evolution of our free society. Feeling that you will be interested in this, I take great pleasure …

2610      [From: 395 Grove Street, Upper Montclair, New

 Jersey, June 23, 1957]

Thank you so much for sending me a copy of your book, Citadel, Market, and Altar. While I have not yet completed reading it, I can see how much original and probably thought-inspiring research you have done.  I had had in mind to attend the cocktail party at the Plaza, but was prevented from doing so.

This coming week I’ll sign contract to teach again — at a Midwestern college. This means that there will not be much time to devote to conservative writing, as I had hoped to do. I had an offer to teach two courses (HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION) at Queens, in Flushing, and hoped to write a non-collectivist textbook at the same time. Alas, all foundations have turned me down. They are mostly interested in economics, not in history and more universally cultural concerns. Thus I am admitting defeat (I MUST make a living, after all.) But I regard it as a defeat of the conservative cause, whose leaders are too sel­fishly concerned with material things and have missed the things which might help us re-conquer the intelligentsia. (Not lightly said, because I have been making the rounds these past six years.)  /s/ Felix Wittmer

P.S. If you live in Elkridge, and not in N.Y.C., I might be

able to visit with you this week end as I have a speaking engagement in Alexandria, this Friday evening, and shall stay at the Hotel Continental, near Union Station, Washington, overnight.

 

 

 

 

 

     Remembering your kind letter in reference to a proposed solution for the Suez Canal problem, it occurs to me that you might be interested in a recently published volume of mine in which the same fundamental principles, as applying to all public and community facilities in general, have been systematically set out. Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting…

 

 

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.. it seems to me that you have made an important contribution to freedom literature.  /s/ Jasper E. Crane

 

(CMA).. is so original in its approach and so unconventional in the scope of the subjects embraced that I find it very refreshing. … it forms a welcome addition to my library. … /s/ Charles C. Gillispie, Dept of History, Princeton University  10-4-57

 

You have given me added confidence in my own thinking on the subject and a stimulation that will help me materially in further thought along those lines. Thank you for the very real contribution you have made to all of us.   Alfred P. Haake, Ph.D., Economist

 

At the time of publication one can only guess whether or not any book is really great, because true merit is proved only on the wings of centuries of testing. But in my opinion, your book is a notable landmark, a breakthrough of scientific reasoning into the realm of human relationships.  – F.A. Harper

 

Most of us “Freedom Fighters” I find, have to learn that even the most eloquent enumerating of the sins of our opponents results in a sapping of energy. Your Citadel, Market and Altar points the way to a more profitable investment of our resources. Those who doubt or have perhaps forgotten that these resources are divine, will I am sure, be stronger and happier for your compelling testimony. Most certainly, I am!  – Adelaide Hering

 

For two months I have been enjoying your letter and your book, and a sense of fellowship in a common cause, which is on my part rather undeserved. Undeserved, for I cannot command the width of well-ordered experience and research that has gone into CITADEL MARKET AND ALTAR. But fellowship, after all, because we have come through experience, not pure speculation, on some of the same ingredients of any durable civilization for the future.

My type of experience – for my metaphysics is founded on experience, and conversely I consider experience metaphysical in the sense that day-by-day facts inhere in a “real” – is partly that of getting into scrapes and having to get out of them. I get angry about some public abuse, ferret out the principle of my wrath, and find a place for that principle in my theory of state, or history, or civilization, or law – my next job. Pugnacity keeps me fairly young at 84, but also gets me into “coronary” upsets, so I face the sad alternative of early demise or acquired serenity. I hope you do better. /s/ Ernest Hocking

 

A more careful reading of your book “Citadel, Market and Altar — Emerging Society” confirms the opinion which I formed on first looking it over — that here is a book of the first importance. Indeed it is an outstanding contribution to a crucial problem of our times. Roscoe Pound  9-6-57, 10-21-57

 

It has been a real thrill to explore it /CMA/. It is not only a highly stimulating and exciting presentation of the fundamental philosophy of principles of a free society, but shows the positive, constructive, and flexible features of those principles that are essential to the survival of any society in the revolutionary changes through which the entire world is now rushing to an early climax.  O. Glenn Saxon, Lawyer and Prof. of Economics, Yale University

 

It strikes me that you are a man who has the ability to do things and time to think about them. That is a rare combination these days, and I am so glad that there are men like yourself who are stretching our mental muscles with a vision of the meaning and purpose of living in this atomic age. I hope that I may have the pleasure of meeting you sometime personally. Ralph W. Sockman, Minister, Christ Church – Methodist, Park Avenue at Sixtieth, New York City

 

Philosophers and scholars, especially in the field of economics, should not be allowed to say anything until they have read “Citadel, Market and Altar.”  H. E. Spitsbergen, Author of Liberals and the Constitution