Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3180

Carbon of letter to John Chamberlain

January 8, 1957

 

 

Dear John:

 

Here’s hoping all goes well with you, and that I will have a chance to see you either in New York or New Haven on my next visit soon after the 14th, if not before.

It will soon be time to make up the dust-jacket for CM&A, so I have been trying my un­practiced hand at a blurb to go with this, follow­ing up some suggestions you were kind enough to make.

Regarding the note “To the Reader,” intended to be placed opposite the Table of Contents, I have made two or three new versions of this as per copies enclosed. I am sending these, thinking you may make some suggestion concerning the desirability of this, or the most suitable form.

The galley proofs that I sent to you were just as they came from the printer. They have since been considerably corrected and improved, even to the substitution of new and improved paragraphs in some places, as for example the 6th paragraph on galley 64, reducing the number of words in most cases.

I am wondering how things are going with your new assignment at Princeton. Seems like a fine pro­ject, and surely it could not have a finer or more capable mind at the helm or in the line. Your looking into physical science, as you must have done to write, among other things, your article in Barron’s about atomic energy, puts you in fine position to show how the fundamentals of physical science carry forward in the biological field and in the fundamentals of our

free-enterprise society as well — notwithstanding the fact that human mind and spirit is here involved. It seems to me that with the benefit of your guidance, the Princeton project may blaze a fine trail.

 

     It will surely be a pleasure to see you and talk with you some more.

                                 Sincerely,

 

SH/m

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