Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2265

Carbon of letter from Heath to Cecil Tucker, 137-20 Franklin Avenue, Flushing, Long Island, New York

January 6, 1942

Dear Mr. Tucker:

I have been disappointed at not seeing you for such a long time. Miss Grodman now writes me giving me your address and says you continue much interested in the ideas I have developed and look for­ward to seeing me. I am very glad to hear from you, even though in­directly through her.

 I wonder very much what you are doing now. Are you in
some regular employment that you enjoy? Do you have any free time? It occurs to me that I would like to have you visit me here if circumstances permit. I am alone most of the time, trying to work along without much stimulus or inspiration. Miss Grodman says you have some enthusiasm for my “magnum opus” and are asking a copy of it for your own reference. (You, of course, understand that it is not to be made public property of or treated otherwise than confidentially in advance of my own release for publication. Only the main thesis in about a dozen pages has been copyrighted thus far.)

 All of this suggests that it would be very pleasant and

perhaps profitable to both of us to have you make me a visit. I have quite a large house and grounds here with all modern gadgets for physical comfort in addition to anything of intellectual or art­istic interest. There is also a Conscientious Objectors’ camp nearby with some seventy-odd “inmates” with whom I visit more or less and it would be nice to have you help me to entertain them at my house.

 Drop me a line as early as Thursday night if you can so I will get it Saturday. I am likely to be in New York by Sunday or Monday, at the Kings Crown Hotel — but I am not certain yet.

 With many best wishes, I am, in friendship,

Yours,

SH M                            Spencer Heath