Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1463

Letter to William H. Amend, 15 William Street, New York City.

April 18, 1950

Dear Mr. Amend:

     As a former research engineer, I have been for some years engaged in examining that organization of mankind other than political and coercive — under voluntary contractual engagements and processes — in which the general modern society functions and basically consists.

     This research identifies the free interchange of contractually organized human energies in the form of services and goods as a highly evolving part of the general energy system of the natural and physical world — and as exhibiting similar uniformities or laws.

     My very good friend Arthur Holden directs me to you as one who knows something of his various efforts towards the regional organization of New York real estate so that regional or community (public) services and immunities can be provided and profitably sold and great real estate and locations values thereby created wholly within the free system of contract and exchange.

     This impending extension of the free process into the field long dominated by political administration I regard as the spearhead of the next great advance of freedom into this ancient and essentially totalitarian field. I shall therefore be greatly interested to hear from you something of the practical steps that have been taken or attempted in New York City — this with a view to some further publicizing of these business possibilities and their peculiar, not to say profound, social significance.

     Your secretary has my invitation for luncheon, evening meal or other appointment more convenient or agreeable to you.

Very truly yours,