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The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years, Part 3

(1949-1959)

The material in this chapter (apart from new letters) was originally included in Chapter Six of the Letters of Ayn Rand book. It contains eight new letters: 369, 377, 378, 414, 425, 431, 437, and 448.

To Gerald Loeb [Letter 369]
To Leonebel Jacobs [Letter 370]
To Alan Collins [Letter 371]
To John L. B. Williams [Letter 372]
To Vladimir Konheim and his wife, Peter (now named “Elo”) [Letter 373]
To Raymond F. Blosser [Letter 374]
To Robert Spencer Carr [Letter 375]
To Charles Sternberg, International Rescue and Relief Organization [Letter 376]
To Edna Lonigan [Letter 377]
To Edna Lonigan [Letter 378]
To Vera Glarner [Letter 379]
To Robert Spencer Carr [Letter 380]
To Henry Blanke [Letter 381]
To Marjorie Hiss, a longtime friend [Letter 382]
To Edna Lonigan [Letter 383]
To Vladimir and Peter Konheim [Letter 384]
To Edna Lonigan [Letter 385]
To Alan Collins [Letter 386]
To Archibald Ogden [Letter 387]
To DeWitt Emery [Letter 388]
To DeWitt Emery [Letter 389]
To Ruth Alexander [Letter 390]
To Leonebel Jacobs [Letter 391]
To Connie Papurt [Letter 392]
To Connie Papurt [Letter 393]
To Leonebel Jacobs [Letter 394]
To DeWitt Emery [Letter 395]
To Lyon Van & Storage Company [Letter 396]
To Ginger Rogers [Letter 397]
To Julius Birge of Bobbs-Merrill [Letter 398]
To Ruth Alexander [Letter 399]
To Cecil B. DeMille [Letter 400]
To Faith Hersey, a longtime friend [Letter 401]
To Leonebel Jacobs [Letter 402]
To Archibald Ogden [Letter 403]
To Pincus Berner [Letter 404]
To DeWitt Emery [Letter 405]
To William B. Duce [Letter 406]
To Ross Baker [Letter 407]
To James P. Birch, Manhattan manager of the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. [Letter 408]
To William Mullendore [Letter 409]
To Suren Pilafian, architect [Letter 410]
To Montserrat Casanovas, a fan [Letter 411]
To Nathan Blumenthal [Letter 412]
To Henry Blanke [Letter 413]
To Hal Wallis [Letter 414]
To Nathan Blumenthal [Letter 415]
To Ira Levin [Letter 416]
To Kenny Kato [Letter 417]
To Marna (Papurt) Wolfe [Letter 418]
To Jasper E. Crane [Letter 419]
To Vera Koski, a fan [Letter 420]
To Alan Collins [Letter 421]
To Alan Collins [Letter 422]
To Mary Moffitt [Letter 423]
To Jasper E. Crane [Letter 424]
To Lorine Pruette [Letter 425]
To Alan Collins [Letter 426]
To Rebecca Weidman [Letter 427]
To Arthur Pierson [Letter 428]
To Faith Hersey [Letter 429]
To Tony Barrett [Letter 430]
To Archibald Ogden [Letter 431]
To Barbara Weidman [Letter 432]
To Nathan Blumenthal [Letter 433]
To Marjorie Hiss [Letter 434]
To Peter (or “Elo”) Konheim [Letter 435]
To Stanley Greben, a fan [Letter 436]
To Hedda Hopper [Letter 437]
To Henry Hazlitt, a pro-capitalist economist and writer [Letter 438]
To Alan Collins [Letter 439]
To Joseph G. Butts, Jr., of the law firm of Gall and Lane [Letter 440]
To Henry Hazlitt [Letter 441]
To Raymond F. Blosser [Letter 442]
To Don Helgeson, a college student [Letter 443]
To Yoshinobu Ashihara [Letter 444]
To Pincus Berner [Letter 445]
To J. H. Gipson, president of Caxton Publishers [Letter 446]
To William Mullendore [Letter 447]
To Senator Joseph McCarthy [Letter 448]
To Gilles Rioux [Letter 449]
To Barbara Stanwyck [Letter 450]
To Steve Werner, a fan [Letter 451]
To R. M. Lynch, Standard Slag Co. [Letter 452]
To Frederica McManus, a fan [Letter 453]
To Jackie Reading, a fan [Letter 454]
To Gary Kline, a fan [Letter 455]
To R. J. Sumners, Muskegon Manufacturers Association [Letter 456]

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