Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2589

Exchange of letters between John M. Payne, Claremont Men’s College, Pitzer Hall, Claremont, California, June 10, 1957, and Heath replying on June 18, 1957

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

Thank you for your kind invitation to join you on the occasion of the publication of your new book. I should indeed like to have been able to be in New York. I would like to see the book when the copies are available.

 The current issue of Faith and Freedom contains a note about my leaving the organization. I have joined the staff of Claremont Men’s College, and since it is so much in your line of interest as well as mine, I would like you to know something more about it. I am enclosing a copy of a recent statement by our President, and I shall put you on our mailing list.

 With best personal regards. Thank you again for remembering me.

Yours sincerely

/s/ John M. Payne

Assistant to the President

JMP:kl Encl.

 

P.S. Although I did not reply to your comments about Mr. Ohmann’s Chicago talk, I do agree with you that he seemed at times a bit apologetic about the free market. It’s one of these modern clichés, but I think he is nevertheless

heading in the right direction.

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Dear John Payne:                      June 18, 1957

 

Thanks ever so much for your nice letter of June 10th, and congratulations on your new connection, which I imagine will be one of fine opportunity both for yourself and the libertarian cause. I say this last all the more from having just read Dr. Benson’s little brochure, “WASHINGTON CALLING….”. Hurrah for Dr. Benson!

 For a coincidence, Dr. Felix Morley writes me very flatteringly about some of my writings, and I look forward to making his ac­quaintance when he returns from visiting Clare­mont Men’s College during the remainder of this month. I have sent him a copy of my “CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR” and am hopeful he may call Dr. Benson’s attention to it. I am sure Dr. Benson will find it compatible with the point of view of his “WASHINGTON CALLING”.

My paper, “THE PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM”, read at the recent Annual Meeting of The Christian Freedom Foundation, was very cor­dially received.  It seems to me I may have sent you one of these in a previous letter, but per­haps that was only an intention and did not materialize. So here is a second copy (if it is a second).

 Again my congratulations on your new connection, which I feel sure will be a happy one.

 

Cordially yours,

SH/m

Encl: “The Practice of

Christian Freedom”