To Benjamin DeCasseres [Letter 89]

Item Reference Code: 004_15A_010_001

Date(s) of creation

August 28, 1943

Recipient

Benjamin DeCasseres

Transcript

139 East 35th Street
New York City

August 28, 1943

Dear Mr. DeCasseres:

Thank you very much for the San Francisco clipping of your column on Howard Roark. It was thrilling for me to see it, and it was very nice of you to think of sending it to me.

I liked your leaflet ā€œI Am Private Enterpriseā€ which you enclosed. I remember reading that in your column and I am glad that it has been reprinted for distribution to the public.

I do hope that you will regain your health soonā€”so that I will have a chance to meet you, a purely selfish reason. (Thatā€™s an example of how selfishness leads one to benevolence toward our fellow men.)

Sincerely yours,