Spencer Heath Archive

Item 792

Verbatim notes on some spot opinions of authors Spencer MacCallum asked Heath about when cataloguing his books at Elkridge, Maryland

February 1956

LOUIS MUMFORD  What a pity someone can be so fine /e.g. Sticks and Stones/ and     then go so far off the deep end. Disturbed in the same way over Boodin. /John          Elof Boodin?/

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH  Mostly fuzz and foam — fuss.

ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON’S  books good for reference.

Lafcadio Hearn  poet and physician — a genius.

JAMES BRYCE (American Commonwealth)

finest book ever written, perhaps, about American institutions

CALHOUN

 

I believe he is going to be known, have a more permanent place in history

than most partisans on the South.