Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2866

Pencil dictation notes by Spencer MacCallum for a letter to Paul Poirot, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Notation that the letter was never sent.

Summer 1958

 

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Poirot:

 

Spencer and I have just been speaking about our failure to see as much of you as we’d hoped to do when at the June Seminar. One of the things I wanted to mention to you and Dr. Harper is a very remarkable book written by a man named Prentice who was, I believe, a son-in-law or some such connection of John D. Rockefeller, who spent many, many years and a great deal of money collecting historical data. The title of the book is HUNGER AND HISTORY.

 

 The book starts off with a recognition that a sufficiency of food is a very modern achievement, due to a radical change in our social and business affairs. This is followed by a wealth of historical data thoroughly well annotated and well interpreted, and in his conclusions he makes freedom and free enterprise a road to abundant life. I feel sure if F.E.E. were acquainted with this book, it would be upon the Foundation’s recommended list where, according to Spencer, it does not now appear.

 

 Please thank Mr. Curtis for his very kind letter of a few days ago.