Spencer Heath Archive

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Smith Correspondence – to, from and about Dick Smith

1960-1961

 

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Spencer Heath Archive

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Penned note to Heath from F.A. Harper

September 28, 1960

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

 

I may want to meet you in Chicago or St. Louis. Not sure yet. Where will you be staying, and how long, each place — perchance I can’t make New York before you leave?

 

Please send me at once a few of the CMA promotion leaflets. I gave my last one away.

 

You will probably hear from Dick Smith, of Dallas, about meeting a group there enroute from St. Louis to Los Angeles. I most highly recommend him and that group. Perhaps the best anywhere in the land.

 

Baldy

 

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Letter to Heath, 1502 Montgomery Road, Baltimore, Maryland, from Dick Smith, PO Box 18595, Dallas 18, Texas

September 28, 1960

 

Dear Mr. Heath:

 

It has come to my attention that during the month of October you will be traveling across the country making several stops to speak to various groups of people.

 

If my information is correct and you will possibly be free on October 15-16 and could arrange to spend those days in Dallas, there are some folks here who want to meet you; Libertarians who are intent upon improving their understanding of our free market society.

 

We would like the opportunity to be with you for as much of that weekend as you could make available to us. Please try to arrange to be in Dallas for 2 or 3 days if possible.

 

We have the best air travel; 707s from here to California. And people who, though you do not now know them, are some of your best friends.

 

Sincerely,

/s/ Dick Smith

 

 

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Carbon of letter from Heath to Dick Smith, PO Box 18595, Dallas, Texas

October 1, 1960

 

Dear Mr. Smith

 

Your cordial note of Sept 28 is at hand.

 

I enclose copy of my schedule.

 

Please advise me how to reach you in Dallas other than through your box number by mail.

 

I wrote to Dr. Benson, air mail, on September 28th and should hear from him about stopping at Searcy before I leave in the evening on October 6th.

 

My topic in St. Louis will be Outgrowing Government. It could be the same in Dallas.

 

Sincerely,

sh/m

 

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Penned note to Heath from F.A. Harper

October 10, 1960

 

Dear Spencer:

 

Confirming plans as now set — unless they have to be changed — I’ll arrive in Dallas early Saturday morning and leave early Monday morning.

 

We will both stay with Dick Smith, or somewhere he will reserve. This will give time for us to go over matters of mutual interest (with you and with Dick Smith), and meet many friends again.

 

Cordially,

 -Baldy

 

 

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Letter to Heath from dick Smith, PO Box 18595, Dallas 18, Texas

November 2, 1960

 

Dear Spencer:

 

     Thank you for your note. Many people have mentioned how much they enjoyed your visit here. Several have asked me to be sure to get them a copy of your book. I told them you were sending some and that I would deliver them.

 

Your idea grows on me the more I think of it. In fact, I’ve already discussed with my uncle the advisability of his merging his interest in some shopping center site with the adjoining owners who have the same zoning. In that way they could get a professional development firm to handle the whole thing and probably create a really good value.

 

I am somewhat confounded by the way in which this sort of program could be pursued in residential property however. Apartments are to a certain extent this kind of arrangement. If it were expanded into the size of a whole community, it would be essentially what we know of today as the municipal corporation. The only difference would be that the ownership rested with individuals by virtue of their residency rather than by holding a share of stock.

 

It is not clear to me whether a share of stock in such a proprietary residential community would be more easily sold than a small definite parcel of land with a dwelling upon it as is now done. If the stock share were to run with a particular dwelling, it would be tantamount to a deed.

 

Maybe we can chunk this one around a bit when I get to Los Angeles later this month.

 

Yours truly,

/s/ Dick

 

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Carbon of letter to Heath at 312 Halesworth Street,

Santa Ana, California, to Dick Smith

August 24, 1961

 

 

Dear Dick Smith:

 

The greater part of a year has passed since I had the pleasure of visiting you and your libertarian associates in Dallas. I owe a great deal to my friend, “Baldy,” for having put me in contact with you.

 

There is much libertarian activity here on the West Coast — more than I can take the time to tell you about. Among other things, my grandson, Spencer MacCallum, has recently received his Master’s degree in anthro­pology from the University of Washington upon a scholarly thesis playing up the proprietary form of community organization as the coming alternative to what we have today.

 

We have just completed an excellent day with some of our most effective libertarians — R.C. Hoiles, Walter Knott and Ruhl Samples, a young ex-actor who has been organizing large meetings in Los Angeles addressed by Dan Smoot, Dean Manion and other free enterprise defenders. Samples is giving much attention to the “neo-von Misianism” which, through Murray Rothbard, is looking to the possibility of free enterprise operating in the public field.

 

Mrs. Manning wishes to thank you for returning the Orange County Report and to give you her very best wishes.

 

Please remember me to John Boggs.

 

Cordially yours,