Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2514

Original letter from 102 W. 85^th Street to Saturday Review of Literature, 25 West 45^th Street, New York City, evidently returned to Heath because of penned notation, “Ck #1510 Returned.” For the sample letter to publishers referred to, see letter version No. 2 in Item 1513, which is identical except for two very slight changes.

April 17, 1943

 

Gentlemen:

 

Hereto annexed please find copy for a proposed advertisement in your “Personal” columns.

 

 In order that you may better judge of its legitimacy I en­close also a form of letter which I am addressing to several publishers.

 

 Highly original discoveries are not often made. Less often do they find ready acceptance where tradition, authority and academic routine prevail. Hence my proposed invitation, my informal appeal, to such inquiring intellects as may peruse the human-interest columns of your interesting magazine.

 

 The basic discovery that I have set out in a considerable vol­ume and am seeking to make known gives positive support to the anti-Marxist criticism and reviews that so generally dignify the pages of your excellent and so ably edited publication.

Very truly yours,

 

Check for $5.20 is enclosed.

Let me add that I am known in New York to:

Schuyler N. Warren (Investments) 1148 Fifth Avenue.

Thomas P. Woodlock, Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Ludwig von Mises (Economist) 777 West End Avenue.

The Economic Club of New York, 123 West 43rd Street,

Dr. Robert Erskine Ely, Executive Secretary.

The United States Trust Company, 45 Wall Street,

Mr. Thomas H. Wilson, Vice President.

 

/Enclosed ad copy:/

GREAT SOCIAL DISCOVERY, quest of the age, slumbers unknown, needs only adequate disclosure to be applied — and serve and bless mankind with security and peace. Discoverer seeks no funds; own resources, retiring disposition, unselfish aims. Desires intellectual contacts, high-minded associates, access to publicists, facilities of publishers. Every investigation invited. Box ___