Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2675

Letter from James Thomas Williams Jr., Box 60, The University Club, One West 54^th Street, New York 19, N.Y. August 9, 1957, with Heath’s response of

August 15, 1957

 

 

My dear Mr. Heath:                         August 9, 1957

Very many and sincere thanks to you for yesterday’s hospitality and especially for the pleasure of meeting your daughter. I hope on your next visit here you will lunch or dine with me here — you, of course, includes your daughter and her son. __________ Under separate cover I’ve sent you Bishop Sherman’s Address, and I enclose several items concerning the Sewanee_of My_______ the University which I hope will survive its present ordeal. I hope also the enclosures will help to sharpen your interest in Sewanee and convince you that at least her past is secure. The description of All Souls’ Chapel was a brochure used for fifty years to raise money to build it. This chapel will never be completed. Her architects dismissed, unpaid the balance due, and their plans ______.

 

Yours very sincerely,

(signed) James T. Williams Jr.

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Dear Mr. Williams:                         August 15, 1957

I was very happy to receive your kind note and also the various printed materials con­cerning Sewanee and its irrevocable past. I have read these with a great deal of interest with the effect of adding a great deal to my already very wonderful impressions. It was good to be reminded of and to enjoy reading again the Address by William Porcher DuBose, which I first saw in Sewanee as a result of your loving enterprise in having it reproduced.

 I certainly enjoyed our brief personal association, as did also my daughter, who has been enthusing about it to some of her intimates in Waterford, Virginia. We are uncertain as to time, but expect to be returning to New York in the next few weeks at the outside and are looking forward very much to acceptance of your kind invitation. I hope also that my grandson can be with us. But of that unfortun­ately we cannot at present be assured. I know he has a very warm place in his heart for Sewanee and its lovely traditions, so much so that he might have chosen it above Princeton, had he known about it in time.

Again thanking you and with the greatest best wishes,

 

Cordially yours,

 

SH/m