Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1623

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Leonard Read, 30 Broadway, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York

June 4, 1957

Dear Leonard Read:

     Remembering your kind interest in the theme of the paper that I read at the Annual Meeting of The Christian Freedom Foundation, I am very happy to send you a copy of that address, which I enclose.

     I hope very soon also to place in your hands a copy of G. Lowes Dickinson’s Modern Symposium, about which we had some conversation in your office some months ago. This book is a very fine and highly rhetorical setting out of many divergent views on public and general affairs that prevailed around the close of the nineteenth century. The highly contrasting ideas and sentiments are arranged in a kind of ascending order, ending in an esthetic and metaphysic crescendo presumably the author’s own. Share with me the pity that toward the end, it is marred with a strong slant of socialism for which the nineteenth-century Liberalism was all too unwittingly setting the stage, but with some good, robust rhetoric withal.

Cordially yours,

SH/m Enc.