Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2719

Carbon of letter to Felix Morley, Gibson Island, Maryland

October 11, 1957

Dear Dr. Morley:

Many thanks for your letter of the sixth and comments on CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. Besides Dr. Hocking’s comment, I have collected a number of other quotations as per the enclosed.

 That article of yours in MODERN AGE, I have read several times. It is most significant. It seems remarkably in parallel with Armaury de Riencourt’s THE COMING OF THE CAESARS which has been extensively reviewed and I am now beginning to read. He seems thoroughly to have worked out the significance of your current diagnosis for the “profound disease.” He is hopeless of legislation and urges the necessity to discover “the ways and means of reviving our moribund Culture” (our Anglo-Saxon heritage?) but gives no hint of how this can be done. I think he will find in CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR a high illumination of the necessary and available, though as yet unrecognized non-political means — if or when it engages his serious attention

 My grandson flew out to Seattle on the 30th to take graduate work in anthropology at the University of Washington. He writes delightedly of the department there and its personnel and seems to be settled happily there with his two cousins, one on the faculty and the other a faculty wife. Thank you for inquiring about him. His mother has very happy memories of our visit with you and Mrs. Morley and hopes to see you again either at my place in Maryland or at her home in Waterford after you get concentrated down on “Gumption” Island.

Cordially yours,

Spencer Heath

SH/ams

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