Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2841

Pencil beginning draft for a letter in reply to a personals ad, in the same Stenographers Notebook as Items 193-196 and 1170.

About 1939 or 1942?

Dear Box _____:

I am no longer in business but I have an urge to teach some of the right kind of people the answers, and how to find them, to the world’s most poignant questionings — to disclose the simple principle of action on which all progress has been made and on which all practical progress depends and how it may be freely and profitably applied. I am a somewhat retiring and isolated person (retired engineer and manufacturer, chiefly aeronautical) with a lifelong complex — almost a phobia — against literary activity or any kind of clerical details. What I do love is to teach — to make contact with seeking and creative minds and fertilize them with significant ideas and interpretations resting firmly on the natural sciences and extending their principles and their predictions into the field of anthropology and history. In all this I am an untrammeled amateur (best and proper sense of the word).