Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1680

Carbon copy of a letter from Spencer Heath to Mr. Robert Vernon Andelson, 5111 College Avenue, San Diego 5, California,

October 8, 1959

 

 

Dear Mr. Andelson:

 

I was very happy to receive your letter of some weeks ago and to forward a copy of my Citadel, Market and Altar to you on September twelfth. About a week later I realized that various enclosures that I intended you to have were not included.

 

I therefore sent you on September 19^th a second copy inscribed to the Henry George School, San Diego, for you to use at your own discretion, and in the same package pamphlets etc, as follows:

 

     Distinguished Appreciations of Citadel, Market and Altar

     Society and its Services (2 copies)

     The Trojan Horse of Land Reform

     The Economic Argument of Henry George

     The Organization of Real Estate

     The Practice of Christian Freedom (An address)

 

Samplings from the Reviews, I think I omitted, so I am enclosing one herewith.

 

I hope you will find this somewhat heretical material of interest and in any case food for thought, remembering Henry George’s statement in the preface to the fourth edition of Progress and Poverty that what he most endeavored to do was to establish general principles and leave to his readers to carry further the applications of them. He established more completely than any of his predecessors that general principle that ground rent is Nature’s perfect provision for the cost of public services. That was a great achievement and is beyond dispute. It is only in the matter of further application of the principles that any difference can arise. It is not the soundness of the principle but the propriety of the means for applying it.

 

It was a very great pleasure to me to meet and talk with you at Campbell House and I hope for further opportunities. My present plan is to leave here for California in about the second week of November for some faculty talks and discussions in Southern California during the winter. John Monroe asked me to stop over in Chicago for a luncheon or dinner meeting with friends of the School who he says would like very much to have me share my thinking with them. I hope for fur-