Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2586

Letter from Felix Morley, Gibson Island, Maryland, with enclosed carbon of his letter of same date to Pierre F. Goodrich, Goodrich, Campbell and Warren, Electric Building, Indianapolis, Indiana

June 9, 1957

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

The enclosed copy of letter to Mr. Pierre F. Goodrich, an old friend of mine, will explain why I have not acknowledged any of the communications from you which I found on my desk on my return from Europe. I wish I could have attended the reception in New York, which by coincidence was the very day I got back from Europe. I also greatly enjoyed your review of PROGRESS AND POVERTY and am amused by its coincidence with my comments on Henry George in GUMPTION ISLAND. But you make a mistake in regarding me as the literary member of the family. It was my brother Christopher who died prematurely the end of March, who wrote WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS.

 I shall be in California all of June but am wondering whether, sometime in July, you could arrange to drive down here for dinner and an evening chat at our Gibson Island home. If there is a Mrs. Heath, she would be as welcome to both of us as yourself. Please let me hear about this in due course for I am most anxious to make your personal acquaintance.

Sincerely,

/s/ Felix Morley

Enclosure

 

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Dear Pierre:                               June 9, 1957

I have just returned from a two-months visit to Europe and want to acknowledge your letter of April 15, even though I know that Isabel has told you why I haven’t written sooner.

 Mr. Spencer Heath has also sent me a copy of his letter of May 20 to you. I do not know Mr. Heath personally, but hope soon to rectify that omission, because I am strongly impressed both by the spirit and the intelligence of his activities so far as I am familiar with them. I imagine he would be the last one to claim he has found all the answers, but he is certainly raising some of the questions that have got to be answered unless we are all going to perdition together in a jeep.

 The Suez episode, as it was easy to see both in Paris and in London, has been something of a historical turning-point. It has been of great influence in furthering the movement for a truly federated Europe, the subject that interested me most on this trip. In Zurich I spent a couple of days with Hunold and indeed saw several other mutual friends in Germany and elsewhere. I only wish we could get together for a good talk sometime soon.

 This week I have to go out to California, for the Institute at Claremont Men’s College, and will be on the West Coast for the remainder of June. With all this traveling, I cannot go over again for the Mont Pelerin Conference in September. Will you be there?

 Further, is there any chance of your being in Washington during July or August, or shall I have to come out to Indiana to see you. There is a slight possibility that I might be able to stop off, breaking my flight back from California. If you think well of this idea, drop me a line in care of President George C. S. Benson, Claremont Men’s College, Claremont, California.

Most sincerely,

Felix Morley