Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3060

Typed letter from Spencer MacCallum at 312 Halesworth Street, Santa Ana, California to Mrs. Irvan T. O’Connell, Winchester, Virginia

April 21, 1962

 

Dear Aunt Beatrice,

I have sent three packages of Popdaddy’s things to your house, and have made up and mailed an additional dozen boxes to Elkridge for storage. In the packages going to Winchester are a selection of books Popdaddy made before leaving here. They are books he thought he would like to have near him, rather than having them sent to Elkridge with the other books he had out here. This selection consists of the following titles:

Acton – Essays on Freedom and Power

Bible – Red Letter Edition

deChardin – The Phenomenon of Man

Eiseley – The Immense Journey

Gomme – The Village Community

Heisenberg – Physics and Philosophy

Heyl – The Philosophy of a Scientific Man

Hoyle – Frontiers of Astronomy

Hunter – Introduction to Roman Law

Jennings – The Universe and Life

Johnson – The Imprisoned Splendor

Matchette – Outline of a Metaphysics

Moulyn – Structure, Function and Purpose

Parkinson – The Law and the Profits

Peattie – Flowering Earth

Planck – The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics

Radcliffe-Brown – A Natural Science of Society

Reichenbach – Atom and Cosmos

Reichenbach – The Rise of Scientific Philosophy

Santillana – The Origin of Scientific Thought

Schreiner – Dreams

Schroedinger – What is Life?

Sherrington – Man on His Nature

Sinnott – Cell and Psyche

Sullivan – The Three-Dimensional Man

Tocqueville – The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Whitehead – Process and Reality

This isn’t a list of his favorite books of all time, but just some he wants for some reason to have with him now. It would be fun to have a list of his all-time favorites.

I’m forwarding the brass candlesticks to you that you left here in the beach house. I hope they’re worth the postage.

Enclosed is a check to the Foundation for books. The books have been delivered to the CCI Bookshelf.

Tomorrow is Easter, and I’ll go to the St. James Church here in Newport Beach. Weather here is beautiful. Hope you have the same in the East.

All best wishes,

Spencer