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« Chapter 10

The Later Years

(1960-1981)

This material (apart from new letters) was originally Chapter Eight of the Letters of Ayn Rand book. It contains three new letters.

To Jennifer Sachs, a fan [Letter 465]
To Stephen Sipos, a fan [Letter 466]
To Senator Barry Goldwater [Letter 467]
To Terry Lung, a fan [Letter 468]
To Laura Janson, a fan [Letter 469]
To Martin Larson [Letter 470]
To Donald S. Maffry, president of Maffry Frozen Foods [Letter 471]
To R. A. Williams, a fan [Letter 472]
To Selma H. Levenberg, of the Ford Hall Forum [Letter 473]
To Louis P. Smith, treasurer of the Ford Hall Forum [Letter 474]
To George Boardman [Letter 475]
To Editor, Commercial & Financial Chronicle [Letter 476]
To Robert Fuoss, executive editor at the Saturday Evening Post [Letter 477]
To Bennett Cerf [Letter 478]
To Mickey Spillane [Letter 479]
To Uzi Hadari, a fan [Letter 480]
To Martin Lean, philosophy professor at Brooklyn College [Letter 481]
To Ida Macken, a fan [Letter 482]
To Joy Miller, of AP Newsfeatures [Letter 483]
To James S. Hunt, Florida real-estate developer [Letter 484]
To John Brierley, a fan [Letter 485]
To Vera Glarner [Letter 486]
To David C. Robbins, a fan [Letter 487]
To Mrs. John H. Chiles, Jr. [Letter 488]
To Dr. Ronald P. Brown [Letter 489]
To Robert Stack [Letter 490]
To Vera Glarner [Letter 491]
To Mrs. John K. Osinga, a fan [Letter 492]
To Rex Barley, executive manager at the Times-Mirror Syndicate [Letter 493]
To Mickey Spillane [Letter 494]
To Rex Barley [Letter 495]
To William M. Jones, professor of English at the University of Missouri [Letter 496]
To Vera Glarner [Letter 497]
To W. T. Stace [Letter 498]
To Bruce Alger [Letter 499]
To Ken Guilmartin, a fan [Letter 500]
To Renata Adler, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine [Letter 501]
To John Herman Randall, Jr. [Letter 502]
To Joseph A. Stone, a fan [Letter 503]
To Elizabeth Mowat, Curtis Brown, Ltd. [Letter 504]
To Bennett Cerf [Letter 505]
To Esther Stone [Letter 506]
To Ray Dehn, a fan [Letter 507]
To Rudolph G. Crute, a fan [Letter 508]
To Libby Parker, a fan [Letter 509]
To Alan Jay Lerner [Letter 510]
To Ruth Alexander [Letter 511]
To Robert Stack [Letter 512]
To Rudolph G. Crute [Letter 513]
To Bennett Cerf [Letter 514]
To the Hon. George L. Emery [Letter 515]
To Karen Brady, a fan [Letter 516]
To Alan F. Westin [Letter 517]
To Marja Roscam Abbing, a fan [Letter 518]
To Thomas A. Bond, a high-school history teacher [Letter 519]
To H. Riga, a Canadian high school teacher and Estonian émigré [Letter 520]
To John O. Nelson [Letter 521]
To Jack Morano [Letter 522]
To Senator Barry Goldwater [Letter 523]
To Mrs. Milton W. Broberg, a fan [Letter 524]
To Deborah A. Baker, a fan [Letter 525]
To John R. Cool, a fan [Letter 526]
To Michael D. Gill, of Citizens for Goldwater-Miller [Letter 527]
To Brand Blanshard [Letter 528]
To Michael P. Levock, Jr., a fan [Letter 529]
To Lee Clettenberg, a fan [Letter 530]
To Paul Smith, a fan [Letter 531]
To a Catholic Priest [Letter 532]
To Bennett Cerf [Letter 533]
To Mimi Sutton [Letter 534]
To Michael G. Moody, a fan [Letter 535]
To Edward T. Chase [Letter 536]
To John Nicholas, a fan [Letter 537]
To Diane Schaefer, a fan [Letter 538]
To Carolyn Riley [Letter 539]
To Elizabeth Smith, of Cat Fancy magazine [Letter 540]
To Stanley Marcus, Neiman-Marcus stores [Letter 541]
To Malcolm K. McClintock, a fan [Letter 542]
To B. Joni Harris, a fan [Letter 543]
To Carolyn Riley [Letter 544]
To Michael L. Haider [Letter 545]
To William C. Sage, a fan [Letter 546]
To W. H. Hutt, economics professor at the University of Virginia [Letter 547]
To Duane Eddy [Letter 548]
To Archibald Ogden [Letter 549]
To Pilar and Jose Manuel Capuletti [Letter 550]
To Gene Shalit [Letter 551]
To Lloyd Bucher [Letter 552]
To Marjorie Hiss [Letter 553]
To Michael Collins [Letter 554]
To Tammy Vaught [Letter 555]
To Tammy Vaught [Letter 556]
To Edward T. Chase [Letter 557]
To S. S. Peikoff, MD [Letter 558]
To Jose and Pilar Capuletti [Letter 559]
To S. P. Wang, director general of posts, Taiwan [Letter 560]
To William M. Magruder [Letter 561]
To W. F. Carter, director of posts, Papua New Guinea [Letter 562]
To S. S. Peikoff, MD [Letter 563]
To Lloyd Laury, a fan [Letter 564]
To Yoav Dror, a fan [Letter 565]
To Wesley S. Hartley, a high school English teacher [Letter 566]
To Grace L. Hardy, a fan [Letter 567]
To Anthony Swerling, a fan [Letter 568]
To David L. Baker [Letter 569]
To E. W. Birch, M. G. Morisette and E. M. Swarthout [Letter 570]
To Nora Drobyshev [Letter 571]
To Doris Gordon, a fan [Letter 572]
To Marilyn Van Derbur [Letter 573]
To Judge Reuben L. Lurie [Letter 574]
To Larry Cole [Letter 575]
To Nora Drobyshev [Letter 576]
To Nora Drobyshev [Letter 577]
To Nathalie Rivard, a fan [Letter 578]
To Herman V. Ivey [Letter 579]
To Mrs. William Maethner, a fan [Letter 580]
To Ethan C. Mordden, assistant editor at Opera News [Letter 581]
To James A. Michener, author [Letter 582]
To Robert F. Anderson, philosophy professor at the University of Nebraska [Letter 583]
To Flora Reekstin, a former employee [Letter 584]
To Richard P. Ford, a fan [Letter 585]
To Jeannie Cornuelle [Letter 586]
To John E. Marshall, television producer [Letter 587]
To Whom It May Concern [Letter 588]
To Charles S. Smallman, a fan [Letter 589]
To Mimi Sutton [Letter 590]
To the Readers of The Fountainhead [Letter 591]

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