Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3136

Carbon of letter from Heath to Francis I. DuPont, Number One Wall Street, New York City. Included in originals envelope is DuPont’s “Letter No. 2” dated 3-13-1936

January 29, 1936

 

Dear Mr. DuPont:

 

I hope you are not rating my interest in and appreciation of your last letter by the amount of time I am taking to reply to it. The fact is, I have made several starts and each time I got to studying your letter number one and the Ingersoll interview by Miss Colbron and decided I was not yet ready to write. I have made a lot of notes on it and am giving a lot of consideration to your “great invisible monopoly”. I can see that my mind has run off in an entirely­ different direction from yours, but I want to get the
full value of your point of view. I wish we could discuss
these things; writing is very difficult for me. However, I
expect to write you at length as soon as I return from Washington where I must spend the next seven or eight days in
some government litigation. Meantime, I am sending you, for

what interest you may find in it, copy of a letter prompted
by our Pittsburgh friends which discusses the effect on

land values of rent being used for public purposes.

 

     I certainly value and appreciate the attention and study that you have given to my essay.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

     Spencer Heath