Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2709

Carbon of letter to Claude Robinson, Stockton, New Jersey

September 24, 1957

 

 

Dear Dr. Robinson:

 

I have been shocked — almost appalled — to learn

through a private telephone conversation of your very
severe attack of illness, and the consequent dissolution
of THE PRINCETON PANEL, on which I had set high hopes and

happy expectations. I have great hopes that it will be revived through your happy and rapid recovery. For there is a most critical need for some institution of public enlightenment on the principles and potentialities of the free-enterprise social technology.

 I most sincerely hope for your early recovery and for much recruitment in the cause of the philosophy of free capitalism, on which the continuance of modern civi­lization so completely depends.  My own personal efforts in that direction are embodied in my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR. In my last letter from Dr. Virgil Jordan, he characterized this volume as “a most penetrating exposition of the anatomy, physiology, and also some aspects of the pathology, of free enterprise capitalism.” Encouraging comment has been received also from others, as per quotations which I enclose.

 I hope and trust that, with prudence and care, your recovery will be as rapid and at least as complete as President Eisenhower’s seems to have been.

Sincerely yours,

 

SH/m

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