Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2501

Letter to J.T. Flynn, 3511 222nd Street, Bayside, Long Island, NY

June 15, 1955

Dear Mr. Flynn:

I tremendously admire your work in exposing the Roosevelts, Lattimores, Services, and am indignant at the apparent conspiracy of suppression that you have encountered but that I feel sure you will surmount in one way or another.

As a fellow victim in a small way, and anticipat­ing your interest, I’m sending you a 26-page booklet entitled, “Progress & Poverty Reviewed and Its Fallacies Exposed,” with forward by our mutual friend, John Chamberlain. As you can see, John thinks this a very competent job of debunking, in a place where it is high time some debunking should be done. I wish you would let me know briefly your reaction to this. For your convenient reference in checking up citations I’m sending you a copy of Progress and Poverty in the current propaganda edition.

 I also enclose copy of the advertisement which was run a few times in The Freeman Magazine with apparently good effect. It has provoked such furor among the land communists, both here and abroad, that the present editor of The Freeman (succeeding John Chamberlain), without objection to its form or content refuses to further publish or distribute it.

 Out of your experience will you kindly give me some suggestion as to how I can get this essay, with or without the accompanying copy of Progress and Poverty, into good circula­tion again.

 Again complimenting your work, I remain

                            Yours very truly,

SH-s                             Spencer Heath