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<p><b>To Ethel Boileau</b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Lady Ethel Boileau (1881–1942) was an English novelist, best known for </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Clansmen</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> and </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Ballade in G-Minor</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. Her correspondence with Rand began in 1936, when she wrote a glowing homage to </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">We the Living</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> after her American publisher had sent her a copy. After Rand read </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Clansmen</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> in 1936, she wrote to Boileau that her “descriptions are so lovely that they have made me, an Americanized Russian, experience a feeling of patriotism toward Scotland. Your book makes me believe that Scotland is a country of strong individuals and, as such, she has all my sympathy and admiration.” The letter below is a rare instance of Rand commenting about World War II.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">The last page contains a letter, seemingly written at the same time, to Rita Weiman. It is not connected to the letter to Lady Boileau and is not reproduced here.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">This letter was published only on the Ayn Rand Institute website</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">__________________________________________</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">June 21, 1938</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Lady Boileau,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you so much for your letter. I was very sorry to hear that you have not been well, and I do hope that you have recovered completely. I am so happy to have met you and am looking forward to the time when you may come to America for another visit.[*]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">However, looking at the picture of your charming house, I suspect that you may not be inclined to leave it often. I am sure that I should not. It has such a magnificent air of old Europe. I feel somewhat wistful as I say this, for the thought of Europe at present gives me a great deal of anxiety. I can well understand your feeling about it. I should not, perhaps, allow myself a definite opinion on the policy of a country which I do not know thoroughly, but I cannot help feeling a great sympathy for Premier Chamberlain. The least co-operation any</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
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<p><b>To Sinclair Lewis</b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">This undated letter to Sinclair Lewis exists only in handwritten form. It is not known if AR ever sent it to Lewis, and the relevant Lewis papers were lost in a 1989 fire. It seems likely that she did send the letter, because sometime after 1935, she received from him an inscribed (with “Love”) copy (printed in 1936) of </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">It Can’t Happen Here</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. This letter was published only in the Winter 2017–18 issue of </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">The Objective Standard.</span></p>
<h6>________________________________________________________</h6>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Lewis,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Being a writer—and the greatest one living—you may understand me when I say that the most important things, the most real ones, and particularly, the most sacred are the hardest ones to express. After so many years of so much that I would like to say to you I find that I can say nothing. I would like to say that you are the last hope in a revolting, pointless mess called literature, the only </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">living</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> mind I’ve heard, the best god of the very religious atheist that I am, the best hero of an embittered and incurable hero worshipper who believes in nothing on earth except heroes. But all this sounds like pretty loud flattery—and there is no other way of saying it. I cannot give my words the strength they need—the certainty that I mean every one of them. I can say it. I can’t prove it. I can only hope that perhaps you will believe me.</span></p>
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<p><b>To Walter Abbott</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400;">Walter Abbott (1905–73) was a screenwriter and friend of Ayn Rand’s. This letter was published only in the Winter 2017-18 issue of </span></em><span style="font-weight:400;">The Objectivist Standard</span><em><span style="font-weight:400;">.<br /></span></em>__________________________________________</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">March 19, 1938</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Abbott,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for the clipping about “Night of Jan. 16th”. I was very glad to receive it from you, because it shows that you know I haven’t forgotten you, in spite of my long silence. At least, I hope you do. Ever since your last letter, way back this summer, I have been trying to do something about getting some pull to get for you one of those scholarships you mentioned, or some form of scholarship, but I haven’t had any luck. I’m afraid my pulls are not so good, and I’m not so good at getting any.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have been hoping to hear that someone has had the good sense to produce “A Better Day”, but I am really beginning to think that people either have good taste </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">or</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> money. They don’t come with both any more, in this damned century. I also had another hope, but nothing has come of it: I thought that if “We the Living” were produced, I would have enough money of my own, to do your play, if it were still available. You see, I am both optimistic and conceited. And I still think that “A better day” is the best play I have ever read in English, my own and everybody else’s dramas included. But I’m still sitting and waiting—for a better day, literally and figuratively. “We the Living” has not been done yet (troubles both casting and political). There is a good chance of its going on next season. But you can see for yourself how uncertain everything is on Broadway. So I can do nothing but wait and hope.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">And I HOPE that you have NOT seen “Night of Jan. 16th” in Cleveland. I think I’ve told you how ashamed I am of the damn thing. In the first place, it was mutilated by Woods here, so that the New York production script was bad enough. But what is worse, I understand that in Cleveland they used not the Broadway but the </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">amateur</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> version of the play. And that is something to blush about and to crawl under the waste basket. It was “edited” by the publishers, Longmans Green, to suit the demands of the church and school acting groups. It was censored and “cleaned up” and castrated. If, God forbid, you saw it, you can’t even know what’s mine in it and what is everybody else’s. And collective creation never creates anything except a shameful mess. The jury gag and a vague outline of the plot in general is about all that is left in the amateur version from what the play really was. So, if you saw it, don’t hold it against me. Forgive and forget.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What are you doing now? What has happened to the play on married life that you mentioned writing this summer? I </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">am</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> sorry to hear that you are trying to go commercial, you who have so much real talent, but I can’t take it upon myself to blame you, in view of the reception you got on your magnificent work and in view of the trash that is being produced every day here. They flop, they close one after the other, but there is always more coming. The public doesn’t want it, but it seems that that’s what the producers want. I’ll have to lose thousands out of my own pocket before I will be convinced that there is no audience for a play like yours. And even then I won’t be convinced. Oh, to hell with them all! Our day will come yet. Then we’ll have the pleasure of telling all the B.....s “we told you so.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">But don’t go commercial more than once, if you have to. Have you done any real work? Have you any prospects of coming to New York? Or is it still a question of a job? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I do want to hear from you. Don’t hold my long silences against me. I’m one of those writers that have a horror of writing letters. When I’m working I just can’t coordinate my ideas on anything else, such as writing a coherent letter. Not that I don’t want to, I try, but I give up. Then I take time off from work and concentrate on letters. I’m a one track mind. Then all my friends hear from me at once. If you can understand and tolerate such a system, let me hear from you, when you can. I won’t always be such an unreliable correspondent about answering. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have been very busy this summer and ever since. Finished a new play—no news on that so far. Finished a novelette—a short novel—and sold it already in England. It will come out there this spring. Now I’m working on a new novel, a tremendous one, about 400,000 words long and taking in a span of fifteen years, I judge. It’s about American architects. I spent over two months this winter working as a typist in an architect’s office, without salary, for the experience. Got great material, too. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Frank asks me specially to say hello to you for him and to send you his best regards. My ex-partner Albert is in Hollywood, got himself signed on a long term writing contract. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With all my best wishes, </span></p>
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<p><b>To Marcella Bannett Rabwin</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">October 14, 1937</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Marcella:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I was delighted to hear from you and to know that you haven’t forgotten me. You say that you have been in the midst of furnishing a house, and I am precisely in the same position right now. I have spent the summer in Connecticut and have just moved back to New York. We have taken an unfurnished apartment and are now driven mad with problems of furniture, of which we have two beds and a table at the present moment. But the rest is coming, and, so far, we are very pleased with our new place. It seems much nicer than the furnished apartments one can get in New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">It looks as if we’ll stay here for some time to come. There are no immediate prospects for our return to Hollywood, and I have two plays on my hands, which, if all goes well, may be produced this season. One is a new play [“Ideal”] I finished this summer. The other—my adaptation of “We the Living.” You ask me about its production. Well, Jerome Mayer, who had it, has dropped his option on it recently, and for a very sad reason: he is afraid of producing an anti-Soviet play. When taking the option, he had assured me that he was not afraid of it, but he has a great many Red friends and they got the best of him. I am somewhat indignant about it, because it appears as if the Reds have established a nice little unofficial censorship of their own, and it is very hard to get ahead with anything anti-Communistic. But we shall see what we shall see. Right now, I have a very big producer interested in the play and expect to hear from him definitely within the week. If the politics do not stop him, he would be much better for the play than Jerome Mayer could have been.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This, then, is an account of my activities. But how about you? You mention in your letter that you are working in the daytime, but you do not say where and how etc. I notice by the letter head that you must be back with Selznick International. What are you doing now? How do you like it? I would like to know, for I am rather glad to hear that you are back at work. I have always felt that you were too good an executive to retire from the picture business. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Frank joins me in sending our best regards to your husband and to Mrs. Eppes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Our love to you always,</span></p>
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<p><b>To Marcella Bannett Rabwin</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400;">Mrs. Rabwin (then Marcella Bannett) was a neighbor of Ayn Rand’s at an apartment building across the street from RKO, where they both worked in 1929–32. Rabwin was instrumental in two of Ayn Rand’s works: the story “Red Pawn,” which, Rabwin relates elsewhere, she persuaded an agent friend of hers to sell, enabling Ayn Rand to quit her wardrobe job at RKO and write full-time; and </span></em><span style="font-weight:400;">The Fountainhead</span><em><span style="font-weight:400;">, whose theme and the character of second-hander Peter Keating were inspired by a comment Rabwin made about wanting a car only if others didn’t have one. Rabwin was executive assistant to David O. Selznick and relates her career in </span></em><span style="font-weight:400;">Yes, Mr. Selznick: Recollections of Hollywood’s Golden Era</span><em><span style="font-weight:400;"> (Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 1999). The following two letters were published only in the 2017–18 issue of </span></em><span style="font-weight:400;">The Objective Standard</span><em><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">February 12, 1937</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Marcella,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your “review” of my book. I appreciate deeply not only your kind opinion of it, but also the fact that you let me know about it. I am very, very happy to know that you liked it so much, and your letter gives me a great encouragement for the future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I must only reprimand you for saying that your opinion at this late stage can’t have any “importance for me.” You know that I have valued your opinion very highly always. Besides, I have not forgotten that you have, in a way, “discovered” me, in helping me to sell my first story “Red Pawn.” I will always be grateful to you for that, and if you like my work, it makes me very happy to think that I have justified your interest in me at the very beginning of my “career” when I had never sold a single story.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">If you like the background of “We the Living,” you must realize why I hate Soviet Russia and why I have always been rather violent on that subject. You can see what I have lived through. Of course, the story and plot of the book are purely fictional. (It is not my autobiography, as some reviewers thought.) But the background and living conditions are all true, as I have seen them. In fact, when people ask me whether things in Russia are really as bad as I described them, I always say, no, they are not as bad, they’re much worse. I did have to tone down on the background—to make the book readable at all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">No, you didn’t “injure my first born” when you compared the book to “January 16th.” I know there can be no comparison between them. Personally, I think “January 16th” is a piece of trash, particularly after Al Woods got through with it. I never thought much of the play when compared to the book. I really did work on the book, to the best of my ability. The play—I wrote in two months. It made money—that’s all I can say for it. And I hope it will be forgotten. It’s not the kind of writing I want to be known by.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As to your questions: do I ever think of you? Of course, I do. I heard from Mrs. Eppes [Rabwin’s mother] a few weeks ago and I wrote to her shortly before I received your letter. I miss you a great deal and I am getting to be very homesick for Hollywood. But as to when I’ll be able to come back—I don’t know at all. There is too much business holding me here. I have recently finished the dramatization of “We the Living” for a producer who read the book and wants to do it on the stage. It will be done on Broadway early in the fall, so I have to stay here until then. Also, I’ve gone slightly crazy and entered the producing field myself. I’ve taken an option on a play [“Comes the Revolution”] by an unknown young author [Walter Abbott], and I’m going to produce it, if I can get the proper backing. I have never had any desire to be a producer, but this play is a work of genius and I think I’ve discovered a great writer. I’d like to help him, and if all goes well, I’ll have his play on Broadway by September.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">There are many other things that have held me tied to New York. “We the Living” just came out in England, got very good reviews. I wanted to go there for its appearance, but all the theatrical business is here. Between times, I’m working slowly on a new novel. No, not about Russia. There will be no single Russian or Communist in it. Strictly about America and New York. I feel very enthusiastic about this new undertaking, but it will be a long and difficult one. Next fall, I do hope to be able to come back and get a Hollywood job. I love New York, but it’s never-wrecking [sic].</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Frank has been working in summer theaters here. Incidentally, he played “Guts” Regan in “January 16th” in summer stock, did it very well. I’m keeping him for a part in my new play on Broadway. We thought we could make it this season, but it is too late now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As to my family, I am trying to arrange for them to come here, but it is a long, difficult process, there are many formalities to go through in order to get a passport. Now it is my turn to ask questions. Do you plan to go away permanently to South America? You mention it in passing in your letter. And have you given up the studios for good? If you have, I think the studios lost a grand executive, but I am happy for you if you can get a rest, which you always needed, and I’m glad to know that you’re happy in your marriage. If you come to New York in June, I certainly hope that you’ll have time to call on me. I would like so much to see you again. Frank joins me in our best wishes to you and your husband.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Once more, many, many thanks to you—</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Affectionately,</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>To Frank O’Connor</b></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"></span>The Murray<br />Sixty-six Park Avenue<br />New York</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">August 21, 1936</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Cubby darling!</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I received </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="s2">two</span></span><span class="s1"><i> </i>letters from you, together—this morning. It was swell, and thanks, you did write after all. I couldn’t quite believe that you ever would. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">You “catched” me on the “first, most and foremost”. All right, it was for Thursday and Friday. But you’re King of Beasts, Prince of Cubs, Thing of Beauty, and lions is felines! <i>(</i></span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="s2">Mainly</span></span><span class="s1"><i> </i>dandelions ain’t!) </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">I have had a very exciting day today. Saw Jerome Mayer and it’s all settled. This contract [for a stage version of <i>We the Living</i>]<i> </i>will be signed probably Thursday. He didn’t make any funny demands for any collaborators, after I explained my point. He was very nice. We </span><span class="s1"> </span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>To Ev Suffens<br /><br /></b></span><span class="s1">The Murray<br />Sixty-six Park Avenue<br />New York<br /><br />June 10, 1936<br /><br /></span><span class="s1">Dear Ev,</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We were delighted to hear from you, even though your letters gave a pretty sad account of your trip and “Decibel”’s behavior. And, selfishly, we say it serves you right for deserting the Midnight Jamboree. However, since the time is drawing close to your return, we hope you will have better luck for the rest of your vacation and, particularly, on your way back, because we </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="s2">do</span></span><span class="s1"> want to hear the Midnight Jamboree next week. Or is it to be next week? We hope so. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Do we miss the Midnight Jamboree?<i> </i>Well, “you have </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span class="s2">no</span></span><span class="s1"><i> </i>idea”! Oh, yes, the Jamboree is still there, but “she ain’t what she used to be.” “Don’t look now”</span>, but we are not very happy about the announcer who is understudying you. He is not bad, as radio announcers go, but he is just that—a radio announcer, and with a leaning toward jazz-music besides. Such old, faithful fans of the Midnight Jamboree<i> </i>as we are have actually stopped listening and missed several evenings.</p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">Oscar and Oswald the Firsts are sitting dejectedly by the radio, waiting for your return. They don’t like this vacation and want their jobs back. Petunia’s back is arched, her fur is ruffled and she is mad at you. She wants to know why you disgraced her publicly by announcing over the air that you didn’t like her? But she’ll forgive you when she hears the “Grasshoppers’ Dance” again. We haven’t had any “Grasshoppers’ Dance”</span>, any “Down South”, not even a single “Toonerville Train” for ages.</p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">In the meantime—good luck to your theatrical venture. We hope it will be as good as your program was.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">Our regards, best wishes and love to Oscar, Oswald, Rasputin and—well, all right, and Ev Suffens. </span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">(2)</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">that which I saw in you exists only in my own mind and no one else would see it, or care to see. I am speaking of your great achievement in bringing to life a completely heroic human being. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The word </span><span class="s2">heroic</span><span class="s1"><i> </i>does not quite express what I mean. You see, I am an atheist and I have only one religion: the sublime in human nature. There is nothing to approach the sanctity of the highest type of man possible and there is nothing that gives me the same reverent feeling, the feeling when one’s spirit wants to kneel, bareheaded. Do not call it hero-worship, because it is more than that. It is a kind of strange and improbable white heat where admiration becomes religion, and religion becomes philosophy, and philosophy—the whole of one’s life. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I realize how silly words like these may sound today. Who cares about heroes any more and who wants to care? In an age that glorifies the average, the commonplace, the good, stale “human” values, that raises to the height of supreme virtue the complete lack of it, that refuses to allow anything above the smug, comfortable herd, that places the life of that herd above all things, who can still understand the thrill of seeing a man such as you were on the stage? It is not your acting that did</span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>To Melville Cane</b></span><span class="s1"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i>Melville Cane was AR’s attorney and an award-winning poet. This letter was published only in the Winter 2017–18 issue of </i>The Objective Standard.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"></span>__________________________________________</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">February 15, 1936</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Dear Mr. Cane:</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">My deepest gratitude for your book and still more for the rare pleasure your poems have given me. I do not know whether you will understand me when I say that I love poetry so much that I never read it. I think that poetry is the highest and most exacting of arts, therefore it should be perfect—or nothing. And it is perfect so seldom. But your work is perfect and I appreciate profoundly the privilege you have given me of reading it.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">There is one verse in particular which I would like, presumptuously perhaps, to see used as my epitaph some day. No, I won’t tell you which one.[*] Presumptuously again, I hope that you may try to guess it. You will probably see through it, so I may as well confess that it is a feminine legal trick to leave myself an opening for an opportunity to see you and tell you in person how much I admire your work.</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">Since the book was sent to me from my lawyer when he isn’t a lawyer, I will not attempt here to thank you for your help in matters that were anything but poetic. But I do thank you for your work in the realm that is so far above courtrooms and arbitrations.[**] </span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Sincerely,<br /><br />__________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i>*Reliable speculation is that Ayn Rand is referring to the first four lines in Cane’s poem “Alone, Immune,” published in his collection</i></span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s1">Behind Dark Spaces <i>(Harcourt Brace, 1930). “She was not bound by mortal sight, / The stars were hers, at noon. / Against the malady of night / She stood, alone, immune.”</i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i>**Ayn Rand’s allusion is to the arbitration case Cane’s law firm won for her against A. H. Woods, producer of</i> Night of January 16th <i>on Broadway.</i></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1"><b>To Sarah Lipton</b></span><span class="s1"><b><i></i></b></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"><i>Sarah Lipton (later Sarah Satrin) was one of the Chicago relatives with whom Ayn Rand lived upon her arrival from Russia in 1926. This letter was published only in the Winter 2017–18 issue of </i>The Objective Standard<i>.</i></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><i></i></span>__________________________________________</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">November 27, 1932</span><span class="s1"><i></i></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Dear Mrs. Lipton:</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">I was very, very happy to hear from you. Please forgive me for delaying my answer for such a long time. I have lots to tell you.</span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">I have written to Mrs. Stone [another Chicago relative] several times, but I did not get any answer. I do hope the family isn’t angry at me for something. I hope you don’t think I am terribly ungrateful. I have not forgotten all that the family has done for me—nor will I ever forget it. I also remember that I owe a big debt—and I think I’ll soon be able to begin to repay it. I think—and hope—that I’m going to get on my feet now. </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">I’ve had a pretty hard time. However, I shouldn’t complain, for I have had a job all through this depression. That newspaper article you sent me just about covers all the essential news about me—except that they didn’t get straight the story about how I met Cecil DeMille. They had that wrong. But I did work in the wardrobe at RKO—for over three years. It was not a bad job—not sewing (for I still can’t sew a stitch), but in the wardrobe office. I wasn’t getting very much money—but enough to carry on. The work was quite hard—nerve wracking—a lot of details, a lot of rushes, excitement, and—quite frequently—a lot of overtime. Besides, I had to keep house—try to cook, and wash dishes, and such—at night. But I simply could not give up writing. I came to America to write—and I had not forgotten that. That’s something I’ll never give up. But it was pretty much of a problem—I didn’t have very much time to write and when I did find an hour or two at night, I was so tired that I could hardly get any ideas, my head felt too heavy—and one can’t do one’s best work after hours and hours in a studio wardrobe (the messiest department of a studio). Sometimes, I got up at 5:30 or 6 a.m.—to write a few hours before going to work. All this time I’ve been working on a novel—a real big novel I want to write—about Russia. But I found that advancing as slowly as I did—it would have taken me too long to complete a novel. So—last spring—I wrote two scenarios. I want to try and sell them—and get enough money to live without working for a while—and finish the novel. </span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1">You know how hard it is to sell an original story—especially for an unknown writer—and especially since the talkies. I was lucky enough to get a very prominent firm of agents [Myron Selznick] interested in the stories. They liked them, agreed to handle them and—sold one of them—“Red Pawn.” It’s a story about Russia—and I always have the advantage of saying that I know the subject. All the studios here were interested in Russian stories, but have had trouble finding any, so that helped me.<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Universal bought the story for their star Tala Birell, and signed me on a two-months contract—to write the adaptation or treatment of the story. I did the treatment and also the continuity, that is, the final, shooting script. And I am happy to say that they are very pleased. Right now, they are looking for a director for my story, that is, they have not selected one, yet. As soon as they do, the story will go into production—and I do hope it won’t be long.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">My contract expired, but they liked my work so well, evidently, that they kept me on and gave me another assignment. I have to do the continuity or screen play for a story of theirs, called “Black Pearls.” It is a picture of the South Seas. Several writers have tried to adapt it, but the studio was not satisfied. It’s quite a difficult story to adapt. Now, I’ve got it. I had quite a few headaches over it, but I think I’ve solved the difficulty. At least, I outlined my idea to the supervisor and he liked it very much. So now I’m writing the script and I hope they’ll like it.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">I have not signed another contract, yet—am waiting to see what they’ll do about my “Red Pawn.” If it goes over—I’ll, probably, get a good contract. As a beginner, I’m not getting very much money at present, but it’s more than in the wardrobe and it was worth taking to get a start. </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">Of course, I don’t have to tell you how thrilled and happy I am over it all. I was beginning to think that all my friends will lose all faith in me. It has taken me quite a long time. But I hope that the most difficult part of the struggle is over, now. Such is my “professional” life. As to my home life—I am still as happy as ever—even happier if such a thing is possible. Frank is simply wonderful. I wish you could meet him. I do hope I’ll see you before many more years pass. If I ever get established as a real writer—I’ll take a trip back east. And how about yourself? Do you ever contemplate another visit to California? </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">By the way, if you’re curious about Frank, you can see him in a picture called “Three on a Match.” He has just the tiniest bit in it—but it’s a good, long closeup of him. It’s along towards the beginning of the picture, there are a series of news flashes there and you’ll see the closeup of a man listening in on a radio—with old-fashioned ear-phones on, or whatever you call them, you know, a radio apparatus that you put on your ears to listen in. Well, that’s Frank. If you happen to see the picture, take a look at my husband. . . .</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">I am waiting for a nice long letter from you with all the news about the family. How is everybody? How are the children? They must be all grown up now.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">I’ll close this long letter, before you get tired of reading my terrible handwriting.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">Please give my love to Mr. and Mrs. Stone, Mr. Lipton, Bee and everybody in the family. And please give me Mrs. Stone’s address, I would like to write to her.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">I thank you very, very much for still remembering me—and I hope to hear from you soon.</span><span class="s1"></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Lots of love— <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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“a Russian to correspond with,” if you want to write to the faraway city of Chicago. <br /><br />Regarding your coming to Chicago, I will meet you at the train station, even if you arrive in 1947; even if I am by then the greatest star in Hollywood; I just hope you have nothing against photographers and reporters following me and all my friends around, as is customary with stars—at least I hope that will be the case. But since it will be a long time until that happens, I will be very happy to have “a Russian to correspond with.” I will be very happy to receive news from you. <br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br /><br />AR<br /><br />__________________________________________<br /><br /><em>That seems to be the only letter that AR wrote to Bekkerman, and it was in response to the only letter from him, though in July 1927, he added a line to a letter from her cousin in Leningrad. AR did get occasional news about him from her relatives. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, previously secret documents became available, and Ayn Rand Institute researchers learned that Bekkerman was arrested during the height of Stalinist terror, charged with “counterrevolutionary activities” and executed on May 5, 1937. AR never learned of his fate. For more on Bekkerman and others who inspired characters in </em>We the Living<em>, see “Parallel Lives” by Scott McConnell in </em>Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living,”<em> ed. Robert Mayhew (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004).</em>
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<strong>To Lyolya (Lev/Leo) Bekkerman</strong><br /><br /><em>Ayn Rand arrived in America on February 18, 1926. She stayed with relatives in Chicago for six months, writing the following letter—the earliest discovered—just before she left for Hollywood. It is written to the young man who, at that time, represented her idea of a romantic hero and who would later become the model for Leo Kovalensky, a main character in </em>We the Living<em>. This letter, much edited and written in Russian by AR, was presumably recopied and then sent to him in Leningrad.</em><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> </span><br /><br />August 28, 1926 <br /><br />Hello [written in English] Lyolya, <br /><br />There was a time when I loved that American expression of yours [referring to “hello”] and now I am using it myself, because they don’t have any other expression here. Thank you for your letter. Though a little late, I am fulfilling my promise to you. You said you wanted to have an American to correspond with. I am writing to you as a real “American resident.”<br /><br />I am so Americanized that I can walk in the streets without raising my head to look at the skyscrapers; I sit in a restaurant on very high chairs like in futuristic movie sets and use a straw to sip “fruit cocktails,” brought to me by a real Negro “servant”; I have learned to cross the street without getting hit by a car, while traffic cops yell “come
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Dear Hr.
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Thank you for the letter which you wrote about
me to Mrs. Hays.
I can only say that I shall try to
deserve the recommendation you gave me.
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Please forgive my delq in answering your letter.
so many things have happened to me lately that I have
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finish for lack of funds.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><b>To Channing Pollock</b></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">In the early 1940s, he and AR attempted to create what she called “The Individualist Organization” in the wake of the failed Wendell Willkie presidential campaign. In a previous letter to Rand (dated November 27, 1941), Pollock included a copy of his letter of the same date to Mrs. William Henry Hays, president of the Republican Club of New York City. In that letter, Pollock recommended Rand as a speaker, writing: “I have not heard Miss Rand speak in public, but if she can do so with any degree of the conviction and eloquence with which she speaks in private, and with which she writes, she should be one of the greatest orators of all time. I have never met anyone of more remarkable personality and individuality, or with a more burning conviction.”</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">This letter was published only on the Ayn Rand Institute website.</span></i></p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">139 East 35th Street<br />XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">December 10, 1941</span></p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />600 West End Avenue<br />New York City</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for the letter which you wrote about me to Mrs. Hays. I can only say that I shall try to deserve the recommendation you gave me. I have not heard from the Republican Club as yet, but if I should get that lecture it will not please me more than the things which you said about me.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Please forgive my delay in answering your letter. So many things have happened to me lately that I have been in a sort of whirlwind. The big event in my life is that I have just sold a novel to the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is an unfinished novel on which I have been working for a long time and which I could not finish for lack of funds. Bobbs-Merrill liked it well enough to give me an advance that will permit me to leave my job at Paramount and finish the novel. I cannot say what it means to me—to be able to return to creative writing again. I think you will understand. I am afraid I’m so happy that I’m a little dizzy. I signed the contract yesterday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">When you have the time, I should like very much to hear from you and to see you, if possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">You asked my husband’s first name. It is Frank O’Connor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">He joins me in sending you our best regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">There is no record of Rand speaking to the Republican Club of New York City, but the Ayn Rand Archives collection of her daily calendars doesn’t begin until 1943. </span></i></p>
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349 East 49th street
low York city
August 5,
Mr.
1941
channing Pollock
shoreham,
Ia! York
Dear Mr.
Long Island
Pollock:
Thank you for the
which you sent me.
the National Sxall
copy or your letter to Mr.
Emry
I think that Mr. Emery's idea to have
Business Men's Association publish the
Manifesto might be an excellent one ~
him a long letter about it.
and I have written
Thank you very much for the nice things you said
about me in that letter.
Only, may I make one correction?
I haven't "nearly lost faith in myself."
Do I really
impress you as so tragic a Russian?
I often lose faith
in other people — if there's any left to lose - but never
in myself.
You know that I believe in egotism.
know that you approve of such an attitude.
And I
I saw Hr. Exery when he was in town last, and he told
me that he is arranging some appointments for me with
people who can be useful to our cause.
Last week, I saw
Mr. Gall again.
He was very sorry to have L1SS@d you
when you were in town,
an opportunity to uwet
Mr.
Gall
and he hopes that he will have
you when you are in New York next.
introduced me
to
fir.
Lawson,
the Public
Relations Counsel of the N.fi.A.,
and we had a most
interesting
and Kr.
now
try to
I
talk.
Both fir.
Gall
get financial backing for our
should be very much
interested to
you have in your correspondence with Mr.
Fuller, which you mentioned.
Hoping to
Lawson will
organization.
know what
Eames
news
and Mr.
see you soon again - with my best regards ~
Sincerely yours,
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<p><b>To Channing Pollock</b></p>
<p>349 East 49th Street <br />New York City</p>
<p>August 5, 1941</p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock:</p>
<p>Thank you for the copy of your letter to Mr. Emery which you sent me. I think that Mr. Emery’s idea to have the National Small Business Men’s Association publish the Manifesto might be an excellent one—and I have written him a long letter about it.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the nice things you said about me in that letter. Only, may I make one correction? I haven’t “nearly lost faith in myself.” Do I really impress you as so tragic a Russian? I often lose faith in other people—if there’s any left to lose—but never in myself. You know that I believe in egotism. And I know that you approve of such an attitude.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I saw Mr. Emery when he was in town last, and he told me that he is arranging some appointments for me with people who can be useful to our cause. Last week, I saw Mr. Gall again. He was very sorry to have missed you when you were in town, and he hopes that he will have an opportunity to meet you when you are in New York next.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Gall introduced me to Mr. Lawson, the Public Relations Counsel of the N.M.A., and we had a most interesting talk. Both Mr. Gall and Mr. Lawson will now try to get financial backing for our organization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I should be very much interested to know what news you have in your correspondence with Mr. Eames and Mr. Fuller, which you mentioned.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Hoping to see you soon again—with my best regards—</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
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mo in not the purpose or their work.
in etricly and exclusively economic,
very good job - as for an it soon.
2.
eide.
Their propaganda
end they are doing e
But ge__ must go further.
There is no mass membership organization or our
All of them - including the l.M.A. - merely aek
people to contribute money. ‘mat is why the average citizen
takes no intereet in may of them.
People want to be active,
to do something concrete for our cenee - and no one gives
them anything to do.
You recall the almost desperate plea
in the letters you received in answer to your lectures.
“Please tell us what to do!" - that is the mood of the
people.
when it is answered mereiy by "eend us a check,“
no tender that people turn away, indirrerent and disheartened.
The subversive organizations, the communists and the Neale,
go out after mass membership
enroll people and give them
a. concrete program of activity for their cause.
who in
doing that on our side?
and want.
As vitnese -
Yet that is what the people need
the tremendous response of volunteers
in the
willkiggtwapaign.
people
are
us, but
theyof
must
have
lo
ership that The
offer:
them
as with
concrete
program
pa:-leznal,
W0
50¢
individual
activity.
3g}; is what our organization
3.
There is no orggmxization or our side in the
intellectual field.
And there are hundreds of Leftiat
groups.
arts
As witness -
and in all the
the collectiviet
avenues
trend in all the
or public expreeeion.
who
has
done anything;
to stopactivist
it?
ourthouglt,
organization
would
melce
it possible
for anti-col
art and
literature
to be presented and heard - which in practically impoeaibzbe
3303c
.
These are only the main pointe.
bzr.
not
As to the K.M.A.
-
Gull. who is one or its most influential leaders, did
think that we would duplicate their work.
Quite the
contrary.
He told me be hoe known for e lo
the pro
em I proposed to him. the program o
time that
o
‘organization,
is preo eel
what is needed and needed deeper-ck e y, but the
l.K.A. itee 3', by its very nature, could not undertake it.
He realized that it must be an intelytctuel
organization not one exclusively or manufacturers.
in working now
to help us get financial backing.
He sent me most of their
literature.
It in excellent material - tor school children
interested in economics.
No more then that.
V
\ \
And we're aiming much, much beyond that.
wen,
I think,
this
ehould mum» Mr.
with heat regards,
Eamon.
vlincerely yours; é
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<p>That is not the purpose of their work. Their propaganda is strictly and exclusively economic, and they are doing a very good job—as far as it goes. But <span style="text-decoration:underline;">we</span> must go farther.</p>
<p>2. There is no mass membership organization of our side. All of them—including the N.<span style="font-weight:400;">M.</span><span style="font-weight:400;">A.</span><span style="font-weight:400;">—merely ask people to contribute </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">money</span></span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">That is why the average citizen takes no interest in any of them. People want to be active, to do something concrete for our cause—and no one gives them anything to do. You recall the almost desperate plea in the letters you received in answer to your lectures. “Please tell us what to do!”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">—</span></i><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">that</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is the mood of the people. When it is answered merely by “send us a check,” no wonder that people turn away, indifferent and disheartened. The subversive organizations, the Communists and the Nazis, go out after mass membership, enroll people and give them a concrete program of activity for their cause. Who is doing that on our side? Yet </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">that</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is what the people need and want. As witness—the tremendous response of volunteers in the Willkie campaign. The people are with us, but they must have leadership that offers them a concrete program of personal, individual </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">activity</span></span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></i><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">That</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is what our organization would do.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">3. There is no organization of our side in the intellectual field. And there are hundreds of Leftist groups. As witness—the collectivist trend in all the arts and in all the avenues of public expression. Who has done anything to stop it? Our organization would make it possible for anti-collectivist thought, art and literature to be presented and heard—which is practically impossible now.</span></p>
<p>These are only the main points. As to the N.M.A.—Mr. Gall, who is one of its most influential leaders, did not think that we would duplicate their work. Quite the contrary. He told me he has known for a long time that the program I proposed to him, the program of <span style="text-decoration:underline;">our</span> organization, is precisely what is needed and needed desperately, but the N.M.A. itself, by its very nature, could not undertake it. He realized that it must be an <span style="text-decoration:underline;">intellectual</span> organization—not one exclusively of manufacturers. And he is working now to help us get financial backing. He sent me most of their literature. It is excellent material—for school children interested in economics. No more than that.</p>
<p>And we’re aiming much, much beyond that.</p>
<p>Well, I think, this should answer Mr. Eames.</p>
<p>With best regards,</p>
<p>Sincerely yours,</p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">* A. W. Eames was president of California Packing Corporation.</span></i></p>
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Hr.
Channins Pollock
sborehem,
lee ‘Io:-k
Lens Inland
Dear Mr.
Pollock:
Here
is the letter or Mr.
Ear-rues vmich you sent me.
I am afraid that Mr. Eamea mined the point and did not
understand the nature or our proposed organization at
111.
We would not compete with or duplicate any other
organization.
anyone,
what we want
and the need for it
Kore
1.
to do
is not being done by
is desperate.
are the main pointe:
our side has no
system or belief, no
be defenders of the
"ideology"
hiloeo
r can
no
clear-out
consistent
or life.
Herely £0 claim to
.ay" is not enough.
It is 9.
generality which is being used by eve
dy am! anybody for
I11 aorta of purposes.
What orgmaizat on or our side has
defined a concrete ideology or Ame:-icentsm?
None.
‘rho fin-at
dim or our organization will to intellectual and
hiloeo hie
-
not merely’ political and economic.
We VIII give poop e a
faith - as positive, clear and consistent system of belief.
3 deep that?
Certainly not the N. M. A.
They - and
all other organizations - are merely fighting for the eyatem
or private enterprise and their entire method consists 01'
teaching and clarifying the nature of that system.
It in
good work,
but
it
is not enough.
We want to
go deeper than
that.
we want to teach pegfle, not what the system of private
enterprise in, but Lb; we
1 should believ
in it and tight
for it.
we want to provide 9. e irit »
e£thic%, philoeoghiog,
groundwork for the belief in t
aye em 0
pr va e on erpr so.
The communist: do not owe their success merely to booklets on
the economics of communism.
They provide, first
an intellectual
Justification -
a faith in collective action,
in un-
limited majority power, in a general, levelling equalit ,
in "uneel£iehneee," "service,
etc.
What are the intel ectuel
Juetitieatione for our side?
what
has defined it?
who in preaching
are our moral values?
who
loeo hical individualism?
to one.
And if it
is not preached,
will not
survive.
who could poaeibly acquire a new faith,
econox.
c
ndividueliem
a. tonne of spiritual security, or idealism and dedication
out or l.M.A. literature?
no one - least at all the 3.35.5».
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<p><b>To Channing Pollock</b></p>
<p>July 20, 1941</p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock:</p>
<p>Here is the letter of Mr. Eames<span style="font-weight:400;">[*]</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> which you sent me. I am afraid that Mr. Eames missed the point and did not understand the nature of our proposed organization at all. We would not compete with or duplicate any other organization. What we want to do is not being done by anyone, and the need for it is desperate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Here are the main points:</span></p>
<p><span>1. Our side has no “ideology”, no clear-cut, consistent system of belief, no </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>philosophy</span></span> <span>of life. Merely to claim to be defenders of the “American Way” is not enough. It is a generality which is being used by everybody and anybody for all sorts of purposes. What organization of our side has defined a concrete ideology of Americanism? None. The first aim of </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>our</span></span> <span>organization will be </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>intellectual</span></span> <span>and </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>philosophical</span></span><i><span>—</span></i><span>not</span> <span>merely political and economic. We will give people a </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>faith</span></span><i><span>—</span></i><span>a</span> <span>positive, clear and consistent system of belief. Who has done that? Certainly not the N. M. A. They—and all other organizations—are merely fighting for the system of private enterprise and their entire method consists of teaching and clarifying the nature of that system. It is good work, but it is not enough. We want to go deeper than that. We want to teach people, not what the system of private enterprise is, but </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>why</span></span> <span>we all should believe in it and fight for it. We want to provide a </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>spiritual</span></span><span>,</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>ethical</span></span><span>,</span> <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>philosophical</span></span> <span>groundwork for the belief in the system of private enterprise. The Communists do not owe their success merely to booklets on the economics of Communism. They provide, first, an intellectual justification—a faith in collective action, in unlimited majority power, in a general, levelling equality, in “unselfishness,” “service,” etc. What are the intellectual justifications for our side? What are our moral values? Who has defined it? Who is preaching </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>philosophical</span></span> <span>individualism? No one. And if it is not preached, economic individualism will not survive. Who could possibly acquire a new faith, a sense of spiritual security, of idealism and dedication out of N.M.A. literature? No one—least of all the N.M.A.</span></p>
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Ir.
Ghanning Pollock
shorehezn,
new York
Dear Kr.
Long Island
Pollock:
Thank you for the copy of your letter to Mr. Emery,
which I received today.
I was sorry to hear that fir.
Emery has been puzzled by my silence, but the reason was
precisely what you stated in your letter - the fact that
I have had nothing to report.
I have been waiting from day to day to hear from
Mr. Gall - but have not heard from him up to the present
moment.
I was also waiting for your next visit to New
York and for our planned luncheon with Mr. Gall - I
intended to oonmmnicate with him upon hearing from you.
I got in touch with hiss Gloria Swanson and I an
to see her soon, probably this week.
she is interested
in our cause and could be very helpful.
This is all the
news I have to report
for the present.
I an Vllitlng to
Hr. Emery - and I am really waiting for his instructions
as to our next steps in securing, financial backing.
I do hope that you will be able to come to New York
soon and I am looking forward to seeing you.
I must
reproach you for
Just one
sentence
in your letter to llr.
Emery - the one about "Miss Rand is either disgusted
with my inertia or... "
You really should know better
than that.
After all the time and effort you have put
into our organization,
I hope you are not really doubting
my appreciation.
with best regards,
Sincerely yours ,
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<p><strong>To Channing Pollock</strong></p>
<p>July 7, 1941</p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock:</p>
<p>Thank you for the copy of your letter to Mr. Emery, which I received today. I was sorry to hear that Mr. Emery has been puzzled by my silence, but the reason was precisely what you stated in your letter—the fact that I have had nothing to report.</p>
<p>I have been waiting from day to day to hear from Mr. Gall—but have not heard from him up to the present moment. I was also waiting for your next visit to New York and for our planned luncheon with Mr. Gall—I intended to communicate with him upon hearing from you.</p>
<p>I got in touch with Miss Gloria Swanson and I am to see her soon, probably this week. She is interested in our cause and could be very helpful. This is all the news I have to report for the present. I am waiting for Mr. Emery—and I am really waiting for his instructions as to our next steps in securing financial backing.</p>
<p>I do hope that you will be able to come to New York soon and I am looking forward to seeing you. I must reproach you for just one sentence in your letter to Mr. Emery—the one about “Miss Rand is either disgusted with my inertia or . . .” You really should know better than that. After all the time and effort you have put into our organization, I hope you are not really doubting my appreciation.</p>
<p>With best regards,</p>
<p>Sincerely yours,</p>
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June
Mr.
23,
1941
channing Pollock
Shoreham,
New York
Dear Mr.
Ho,
course,
Long Island
Pollock:
1 have no
desire
that you did not
to
kill
care for
ou.
I am sorry,
Anthe",
but
or
I
egpreciate your honesty in stating your opinion.
Last Thursday, when I received your wire, I telephned
at once to Dr. Ruth Alexander and saw her the same day.
We
had a most
interesting conversation.
She was
quite enthusi-
astic about or project, and she said that she will join us but on one condition: that our organization remain as direct
and uncompromising in its "ideology" as I outlined it to
her.
she explained that she will not belong to any group
which evades or pussy~£oots on magor issues, such as the
issue of defending capitalism.
I assured her that this
was precisely our own attitude.
Last Wednesday I saw Mr.
Association of Manufacturers.
John G. Gall of the National
He was most sympathetic to
the idea or an organization such as we are planning - and
h volunteered the suggestion that he knew several men who
would be interested in giving us financial backing.
I
wrote about this to hr. Emery — he had told me that he would
take care of the financial arrangements.
Mr.
Gall would like very much to meet you,
and askid
me whether you and I would have lunch with him at your
convenience.
the said that he needs but a short notice and could arrange to be free on any day when you are to
be in New York.
I have finished reading
Kan" - and enjoyed it
and cheerful book.
I
“The Adventures of a Happy
tremenously.
It is such a bright
agreed with almost everything in it -
exceyt the chapter on faith.
That is because I think that
there is nothing on earth more important than knowledge.
soméday, when you have the time, I should like
nice long argument with you about that.
to have a
Please forgive me for my slight delay in reporting to
you on all these events to read was the reason.
an extra heavy load or long novels
with best regards,
Sincerely,
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><b>To Channing Pollock</b></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">In Pollock’s previous letter, he wrote that </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Anthem</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> was “obvious” and “artificial” and that “you are bigger than your book—and you can do better.” The edition he read was the 1938 British edition, not the rewritten (and current) edition published in 1946.<br /></span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">__________________________________________</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">June 23, 1941</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Pollock:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">No, I have no desire to kill you. I am sorry, of course, that you did not care for “Anthem”,</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">but I appreciate your honesty in stating your opinion.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Last Thursday, when I received your wire, I telephoned at once to Dr. Ruth Alexander and saw her the same day. We had a most interesting conversation. She was quite enthusiastic about our project, and she said that she will join us—but on one condition: that our organization remain as direct and uncompromising in its “ideology” as I outlined it to her. She explained that she will not belong to any group which evades or pussy-foots on major issues, such as the issue of defending capitalism. I assured her that this was precisely our own attitude.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Last Wednesday I saw Mr. John C. Gall of the National Association of Manufacturers. He was most sympathetic to the idea of an organization such as we are planning—and he volunteered the suggestion that he knew several men who would be interested in giving us financial backing. I wrote about this to Mr. Emery—he had told me that he would take care of the financial arrangements.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Gall would like very much to meet you, and asked me whether you and I would have lunch with him at your convenience. He said that he needs but a short notice—and could arrange to be free on any day when you are to be in New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have finished reading "</span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Adventures of a Happy Man"</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">—</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">and</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">enjoyed it tremendously. It is such a bright and cheerful book. I agreed with almost everything in it—except the chapter on faith.[*] That is because I think that there is nothing on earth more important than knowledge. Someday, when you have the time, I should like to have a nice long argument with you about that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Please forgive me for my slight delay in reporting to you on all these events—an extra heavy load of long novels to read was the reason.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With best regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><i><span>* In her biographical interviews, AR was asked about “important people” she had met during the Willkie campaign:</span></i><i><span> “</span></i><i><span>Well, the most important one that I met at that time was Channing Pollock. Now, he was a very distinguished writer. . . . He had an enormous reputation; he was a famous playwright. Of a very bad kind in one sense. He was crazy about God. You know, all his plays were about religion, or people redeemed by religion. He was a professional religionist. The only good thing about him was that he was a free-enterpriser. . . . And he didn’t mix the religion into it.”</span></i></p>
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do not believe
but he
that it is
suggested that
I
in the proper term for an article,
send it to
an editor
just
as
it
is,
inquire whethr the magazine would be interested and thn
do sueh re-writing as the editor might find necessary.
He
suggested that I consult you on this and ask your opinion
as to whether such a procedure would be advisable.
-fie
pointed out that he has often helped his National small
Business Men's Association by placing magazine articles on
sub eats pertaining to its
adv
sable,
I
us get
future
I
shell,
activity.
or course,
think that Mr.
If you find this
be most eager to do
Emery will really be
started - and I
activity.
able
so.
to help
look forward hopefully to our
with best regards,
Sincerely,
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<p>do not believe that it is in the proper form for an article, but he suggested that I send it to an editor just as it is, inquire whether the magazine would be interested and then do such re-writing as the editor might find necessary. He suggested that I consult you on this and ask your opinion as to whether such a procedure would be advisable. He pointed out that he has often helped his National Small Business Men’s Association by placing magazine articles on subjects pertaining to its activity. If you find this advisable, I shall, of course, be most eager to do so.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I think that Mr. Emery will really be able to help us get started—and I look forward hopefully to our future activity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With best regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,<br />__________________________________________</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400;">* Pollock inscribed his book </span></em><span style="font-weight:400;">The Adventures of a Happy Man</span><em><span style="font-weight:400;">, “To Ayn Rand—the best mind and most inspiring personality I have encountered in many years.” </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400;">** John Gall was later AR’s attorney.</span></em></p>
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June
Ir.
14.
1941
chsnning Pollock
Shorehem,
low York
Dear Hr.
Long Island
Pollock:
Thank you from the bottom or my heart
or A Happy Kan‘ -
for
and for your inscription.
"The Adventures
I have been try-
ing for years to become hardsboiled and to let nothing affect
me too much.
But this did.
I read your inscription and I
feel encouraged for the rest of my life encouragement that
only
the kind or
a creative person needs or understands.
Thank you for writing about me
to De Witt Wallace.
appreciate it immensely, and I would be most
that article, should he be interested.
I was delighted to
Brown about “Life's Too
reawaken your interest
most
anxious
I
to do
learn that you had written to Little,
Short‘.
If I helped in any way to
an make you finish that book -
I
n
selfishly flattered.
I have met Dewitt Emery and have seen him three times
while he was here.
I don't know whether this was at. to
his enthusiasm for our cause or to his being impressed by
me - and I am vain enough to hope it was both.
I really
did not fid him hard or tough at all - he was very charming
and very sincerely interested in our cause.
He promised
definitely that he is with us, and will do everything he can.
He did say that he cannot give it his full time until after
the passage of the Labor Bill on which he is working, but
that would not be necessary, I think, until our organization
actually gets going.
He pointed out very emphatically that
we should have financial backing first or all - and he will
help us to get in touch with the right people.
He will try
to arrange for me to see Helen Prick (who, he said, has something like $500,000,000), also Mr. Ball or the National
Association of Manufacturers, and a few other people.
I
hope that we shall be able to arouse the interest or one
or the.
Mr. Emery promised also to sen us a list or
more names to add to our Committee.
I gave him the two documents I wrote ~ the short
"Declaration" and the long “Manifesto.”
He was most highl
complimntary about them.
He thought that the "Individual st
manifesto" would be very helpful to us if I arranged to have
it published as an article
in some national magazine.
I
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><b>To Channing Pollock</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">June 14, 1941</span></p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock: </p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you from the bottom of my heart for “The Adventures of a Happy Man”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">—</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">and</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">for your inscription.</span><span style="font-weight:400;">[*]</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> I have been trying for years to become hard-boiled and to let nothing affect me too much. But this did. I read your inscription and I feel encouraged for the rest of my life—the kind of encouragement that only a creative person needs or understands.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for writing about me to De Witt Wallace. I appreciate it immensely, and I would be most anxious to do that article, should he be interested.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I was delighted to learn that you had written to Little, Brown about “Life’s Too Short”. If I helped in any way to reawaken your interest and make you finish that book—I am most selfishly flattered.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have met DeWitt Emery and have seen him </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">three</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">times while he was here. I don’t know whether this was due to his enthusiasm for our cause or to his being impressed by me—and I am vain enough to hope it was both. I really did not find him hard or tough at all—he was very charming and very sincerely interested in our cause. He promised definitely that he is with us, and will do everything he can. He did say that he cannot give it his full time until after the passage of the Labor Bill on which he is working, but that would not be necessary, I think, until our organization actually gets going. He pointed out very emphatically that we should have financial backing first of all—and he will help us to get in touch with the right people. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">He will try to arrange for me to see Helen Frick (who, he said, has something like $500,000,000), also Mr. Gall [**] of the National Association of Manufacturers, and a few other people. I hope that we shall be able to arouse the interest of one of them. Mr. Emery promised also to send us a list of more names to add to our Committee.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I gave him the two documents I wrote—the short “Declaration” and the long “Manifesto.” He was most highly complimentary about them. He thought that the “Individualist Manifesto” would be very helpful to us if I arranged to have it published as an article in some national magazine. I</span></p>
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would like to savd the genuine few - who have a very, very
hard battle to r1gnt today.
And if you hold "Life's Too
Short"
as
an example of
"when to
quit" -
your own goint.
You're proving mine.
Too Short
sets the time, not to quit,
in very grim earnest.
Well,
you're defeating
The case of "Life's
but to begin fighting
am I honest?
Forgive me if I made you read such a long letter, but
you asked for my opinion and I wanted to give it in full.
If you don't agree with it - you can give me hell Tuesday.
With
admiration,
Sincerely,
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<p>would like to save the genuine few—who have a very, very hard battle to fight today. And if you hold “Life’s Too Short” as an example of “when to quit”—you’re defeating your own point. You’re proving mine. The case of “Life’s Too Short” sets the time, not to quit, but to begin fighting in very grim earnest. </p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Well, am I honest? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Forgive me if I made you read such a long letter, but you asked for my opinion and I wanted to give it in full. If you don’t agree with it—you can give me hell Tuesday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With admiration,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,</span></p>
<p>__________________________________________</p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />* Readers might recognize this as a parody of Ernest Hemingway’s writing.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">** Pollock’s autobiography was published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1943 with the title </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Harvest of My Years</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. He inscribed a copy: “To Ayn Rand, without whose insistence this book would not have been written.” </span></i></p>
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o, if I have to demonstrate my onesty by criticiz
would rather criticize your editorial in “This week
you,’
Magazine where you wrote on
“knowing the time to
quit."
If
you remember, I objected to it - and you cited "Life's Too
Short‘ as an example or a case where an author should
‘
accept the negative verdict of several editors.
I said than
that I didn't believe this - and I say it mre strongly now.
I am afraid that you are thinking or the tim
when editors
were still men of integrity, discernment andgahievement, and
their opinion could be considered respectfully.
we are long
past that time.
There are still a few editors of that
caliber
left,
but very,
very few.
The
rest?
Well...
What makes me want to scream in this case, is the
insidious iniustice of the whole process.
Our Red "intellectuals"
and our editors play upon the best
instincts of
our authors in order to destroy them.
It is
pletely mediocre writer who never entertains
the value of his work.
The man of talent is
only the comp
any doubts on
alwa s more
severe
crit
with his own writing than any outside
ever be.
himself.
o could
A good writer's girst instinct is always to blam
His own scrupulous honesty makes it difficult for
him to accuse others of dishonesty or injustice.
And thus,
it his work is rejected repeatedly, he accepts the verdict,
even when, in all sincerity, he can find no fault in his
work; he simply accepts that he must have failed somewhere.
He prefers
to
doubt his own standards
of editors.
Thus,
their dirty work.
but
in his
own mind,
rather than the ethics
he
completes for them
So what I want to criticize is not "Life's Too Short‘,
its author's attitude towards it.
I think this work
should be completed and published.
I cannot advise you to
undertake the struggle - because I knw it will be a hard
one.
But if you are too busy with other work to complete
"Life's Too short“ - then, I think, you owe to it at least
the acknowledgment of its value in your own mind.
You must
consider it a victim or the immense injustice of our centuy.
You must not help the second-raters in power by granting
them the benefit of the doubt at the expense of your own
work, at the cost of vindicating their bad judgment by
questioning your own.
or course, personally, I wish you
would finish "Life's Too Short‘ and make them publish it.
And -
I think it
is best not
to
advise young people
to learn when to quit.
They could learn it in a society
of honest man, where the positions or authority and decision
are held by men whose Judgment can be respected.
The kind
of society we had yesterday.
That
day.
Today - young people have to
is not what we have togo through a living
hell and rely on nothing but their own faith in themselves.
At the price or a thousand self-deluding meddocrities, I
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<p>So, if I have to demonstrate my honesty by criticizing you, I would rather criticize your editorial in <span style="font-weight:400;">“</span><span style="font-weight:400;">This Week”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">magazine where you wrote on “knowing the time to quit.” If you remember, I objected to it—and you cited “Life’s Too Short” as an example of a case where an author should accept the negative verdict of several editors. I said then that I didn’t believe this—and I say it more strongly now. I am afraid that you are thinking of the time when editors were still men of integrity, discernment and achievement, and their opinion could be considered respectfully. We are long past that time. There are still a few editors of that caliber left, but very, very few. The rest? Well . . . </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">What makes me want to scream in this case, is the insidious injustice of the whole process. Our Red “intellectuals” and our editors play upon the best instincts of our authors in order to destroy them. It is only the completely mediocre writer who never entertains any doubts on the value of his work. The man of talent is always more severe with his own writing than any outside critic could ever be. A good writer’s first instinct is always to blame himself. His own scrupulous honesty makes it difficult for him to accuse others of dishonesty or injustice. And thus, if his work is rejected repeatedly, he accepts the verdict, even when, in all sincerity, he can find no fault in his work; he simply accepts that he must have failed somewhere. He prefers to doubt his own standards rather than the ethics of editors. Thus, in his own mind, he completes for them their dirty work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">So what I want to criticize is not “Life’s Too Short”, but its author’s attitude towards it. I think this work should be completed and published. I cannot advise you to undertake the struggle—because I know it will be a hard one. But if you are too busy with other work to complete “Life’s Too Short”—then, I think, you owe to it at least the acknowledgment of its value in your own mind. You must consider it a victim of the immense injustice of our century. You must not help the second-raters in power by granting them the benefit of the doubt at the expense of your own work, at the cost of vindicating their bad judgment by questioning your own. Of course, personally, I wish you would finish “Life’s Too Short” and make them publish it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">And—I think it is best not to advise young people to learn when to quit. They could learn it in a society of honest men, where the positions of authority and decision are held by men whose judgment can be respected. The kind of society we had yesterday. That is not what we have today. Today — young people have to go through a living hell and rely on nothing but their own faith in themselves. At the price of a thousand self-deluding mediocrities, I</span></p>
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what I mean?
Is there an point, reason or excuse for
this sort of thing?
Yet it is being published every day
and blown up into best-sellers.
An accident?
I don't
think so.
A deliberate intention.
The intellectual revolution of the
seconderater.
ing
is not to
superiority
The best method of destroy-
denounce
it.
It is to
establish
standrgds of superiority that destroy all standards.
It
is to hail as superiority its very antithesis: the small,
the meaningless, the average.
And they can get away with
it only on one condition: that intelligence not be allowed
to function, that a good, healthy, questioning mentality
not be allowed to speak anywhere.
Because one single
'Why?" or "What the hell?" would destroy the whole
hysterical tribe of glorified nonentities.
our literature,
our
theater ad all our arts
one gigantic conspiracy against the mind.
against
mind as
are now
Not even merely
the great mind, but against an mind, against the
such.
Down with thought and up with the emotions.
when thought is destroyed — anything goes.
the privilege
of the
equal, even the
Gertrude stein.
superior few.
Thought
is
In emotions we're
all
animals.
Look at such a pheomenon as
She is being published, discussed and
given more publicity than any real writer.
Why?
There*s
no financial profit in it.
Just as a joke?
I don't think
so.
It is done - in the main probably quite subconsciouslyto
destroy the mind in liégrature.
It is not surprising, therefore, that most of our
editors and other literary authorities are Red.
I don't
believe that they are all in the pay of Moscow.
The
trouble is deeper and.more vicious than that.
We are
living in the century of the Second-Rater.
rater is always pink ~ by sheer instinct.
The second»
He has to glorify;
equality and he has to push his own equals to the front.
If
this is not so — why, then, are all those dashing heroes of
the current autobiographies, such as Vincent Sheean, Walter
Duranty, Hegley Farson, why are they all pink?g_If there
is no deliberate plan behind it all - wouldn'tAbe reasonable
to suppose that at least one of those heroes would be con»
servative or neutral?
But there is not a single one.
And there, I think,
Short" is not published.
is another reason why "Life's Too
Not only are you a famous con-
servative, but you are a man of achievement.
That,
monstrous as it may sound, is the reason why eEEE3rs are
not interested in your autobiography.
They want the autobiographies
nver will.
of mn who have never achieved anything and
There are some exceptions to this rule, but
not many.
Of all the autobiographies published, the
number of those whose lives are really worth recording is
far inferior to the number of those whose lives weren't
even worth living.
That is the ghastly reversal of all
values that we are nu facing.
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<p>what I mean? Is there any point, reason or excuse for this sort of things? Yet it is being published every day and blown up into best-sellers. An accident? I don’t think so. A deliberate intention. The intellectual revolution of the second-rater. The best method of destroying superiority is not to denounce it. It is to establish standards of superiority that destroy all standards. It is to hail as superiority its very antithesis: the small, the meaningless, the average. And they can get away with it only one condition: that intelligence not be allowed to function, that a good, healthy, questioning mentality not be allowed to speak anywhere. Because one single “Why?” or “What the hell?” would destroy the whole hysterical tribe of glorified nonentities. </p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Our literature, our theater and all our arts are now one gigantic conspiracy against the mind. Not even merely against the great mind, but against any mind, against the mind as such. Down with thought and up with the emotions. When thought is destroyed—anything goes. Thought is the privilege of the superior few. In emotions we’re all equal, even the animals. Look at such a phenomenon as Gertrude Stein. She is being published, discussed and given more publicity than any real writer. Why? There’s no financial profit in it. Just as a joke? I don’t think so. It is done—in the main probably quite subconsciously to destroy the mind in literature. [**]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">It is not surprising, therefore, that most of our editors and other literary authorities are Red. I don’t believe that they are all in the pay of Moscow. The trouble is deeper and more vicious than that. We are living in the century of the Second-Rater. The second-rater is always pink—by sheer instinct. He has to glorify equality and he has to push his own equals to the front. If this is not so—why, then, are all those dashing heroes of the current autobiographies, such as Vincent Sheean, Walter Duranty, Negley Farson, why are they all pink? If there is no deliberate plan behind it all—wouldn’t it be reasonable to suppose that at least one of those heroes would be conservative or neutral? But there is not a single one. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">And there, I think, is another reason why “Life’s Too Short” is not published. Not only are you a famous conservative, but you are a man of achievement. </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">That</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">monstrous as it may sound, is the reason why editors are not interested in your autobiography. They want the autobiographies of men who have never achieved anything and never will. There are some exceptions to this rule, but not many. Of all the autobiographies published, the number of those whose lives are really worth recording is far inferior to the number of those whose lives weren’t even worth living. </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">That</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is the ghastly reversal of all values that we are now facing.</span></p>
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over them together,
and he said:
”lhy,
it's wonderful!‘
well?
You wanted to know why it has not been published?
I think I know it - and it's not a cheerful reason.
It has
ot been published - not because of faults, but because of
its chief virtue.
It reads like the conversation of a very
intelligent man.
You feel a clear, bright, cheerful mind
behind every sentence.
There is no mush, no portentous
platitudes, no vague, loud generalities of the kind that
sound deep and mean Just exactly nothing.
The writing has
such remarkable economy - nothing said but what has to be
said an not
an adjective
over.
Also,
the writing is simple -
with the most deadly simplicity of all: the simplicity of
intelligence.
I say “deadly” because that is just what
intelliwence represents to the contemptible second—raters
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are fiiinly in charge of our literary life
I don't
think that most editors
or deliberately vicious
about it.
at present.
are conscious of it
But I do
think that
their
instinct - they'd call it their "Taste" - objects automatically to any manifestation of pure intellect, of brains. It is
not even a question of subject matter.
The sufiflect matter
of "Life's Too Short" is simple and human enough; it can
be understood by and would appeal to the most un-intellectual,
average reader; there is nothing "difficult" or "highpbrow"
about it.
The intellectual quality is in the writing.
It
appeals to the emotions through the mind.
The effect it
creates in the reader is
s:
a
a w as, charming man
there is looking at us from between the lines.
But the
process of reading between the lines is an intellectual
en 0
ent.
It is
subtle.
It requires inteIlIgence
E5
crea e
and to appreciate it.
not necessarily an abstract,
ponderous, "philosophical" intelligence.
But a simple,
easy, cheerful mental process accessible to any mind, provided that mind wishes to be exercised»
There is the secret.
The minds of our present-day ”intellectuaI§"Hb not wish to
function.
else.
what
They dread it.
And they resent it
they want is emotion,
above all
but not intelligent
emotion.
Just pién, cheap, sodden emotion that requires
no thinking, that‘hould vanish the instant thought was
applied to it.
I can best make this
read,
appalled,
clear by an illustration.
the kind of autobiographies
I have
that are being
published today.
Autobiogr
hies of nebodies full of nothing
at all.
Great big life-stalks of second-rate newspaper-mn
who use world events
as a background for their nasty little
personalities.
Like this: "And when I saw the fall of Vienna,
it reminded me of a day seven years earlier when I met Jimmy
Glut: in a dive in Singapore, and over a glass of absinthe
I said:'Jimmy, what is the meaning of life?‘ and Jimmy
answered: ‘Hell, uh knows, you old bastard?'”
You see
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2.<br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">over them together, and he said: “Why, it’s wonderful!” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Well? You wanted to know why it has not been published? I think I know it—and it’s not a cheerful reason. It has not been published—not because of faults, but because of its chief virtue. It reads like the conversation of a very intelligent man. You feel a clear, bright, cheerful mind behind every sentence. There is no mush, no portentous platitudes, no vague, loud generalities of the kind that sound deep and mean just exactly nothing. The writing has such remarkable economy—nothing said but what has to be said and not an adjective over. Also, the writing is simple—with the most deadly simplicity of all: the simplicity of intelligence. I say “deadly” because that is just what </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">intelligence</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">represents to the contemptible second-raters who are mainly in charge of our literary life at present. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I don’t think that most editors are conscious of it or deliberately vicious about it. But I do think that their instinct—they’d call it their “Taste”—objects automatically to any manifestation of pure intellect, or </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">brains</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;">. It is not even a question of subject matter. The subject matter of “Life’s Too Short” is simple and human enough; it can be understood by and would appeal to the most un-intellectual, average reader; there is nothing “difficult” or “high-brow” about it. The intellectual quality is in the writing. It appeals to the emotions </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">through the mind</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;">. The effect it creates in the reader is this: what a wise, charming man there is looking at us from between the lines. But the process of reading between the lines is an </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">intellectual enjoyment</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;">. It is subtle. It requires intelligence to create it and to appreciate it. Not necessarily an abstract, ponderous, “philosophical” intelligence. But a simple, easy, cheerful mental process accessible to any mind, provided that mind wishes to be exercised. </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">There is the secret. The minds of our present-day “intellectuals” do not wish to function. They dread it. And they resent it above all else. What they want is emotion, but not intelligent emotion. Just plain, cheap, sodden emotion that requires no thinking, that would vanish the instant thought was applied to it.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I can best make this clear by an illustration. I have read, appalled, the kind of autobiographies that are being published today. Autobiographies full of nothing at all. Great big life-stories of second-rate newspaper-men who use world events as a background for their nasty little personalities. Like this: “And when I saw the fall of Vienna, it reminded me of a day seven years earlier when I met Jimmy Glutz in a dive in Singapore, and over a glass of absinthe I said: ‘Jimmy, what is the meaning of life?’ and Jimmy answered: ‘Hell, who knows, you old bastard?’”[*] You see</span></p>
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349 East 49th street
new York city
Jun 8,
1941
Ir. chsnning Pollock
shoraham. L. I.
New York
Dear Hr. Pollock:
Thank you for your letters an - most enthusiasticallyfor the manuscript of “Life's Too short.”
no, I have not
been ill,
but
almost wish I had -
pleasanter the the activit
this last week.
I will exp
ad,
I
think,
it would have been
which has kept me busy during
sin it to you when I see you -
,
you will forgive my silence.
I have waited to write
"Life's Too short”,
to you until after I had read
which I have
just finished.
This
is
going to be a long letter, because the subject deserves it.
I shall be delighted, of course, to see you on Tuesday the
10th.
(Incidentally; I am only too happy if you find it
covenient to "use my flat as an office,
ae you put it.)
I have several things I would like to discuss with you in
connection with our organization.
I must say there that
it was great news to hear that Dewitt Emery may become our
executive secretary.
It would be splendid.
Thank you for
the printed copies of our "Declaration."
I have given a
for out to some "prospects" - and I should like to tell
you about
I
their reaction when I
have not received
see you.
"The Adventures of a Happy Man‘
as yet - and I am terribly sorry to think that it probably
was lost in the mail.
with your permission, I should like
to
inquire
How,
Let me
at
I
say,
the post office -
am most
first,
eager to
that
I
I have not done
speak about
so
as yet.
“Life's Too short.‘
felt very honored by your wanting
my opinion of it.
since you challenged m "honesty", I
tried to bend backwards in being honest; I tried to forget
my admiration for all your other works an to read it as
severely and unsympathetically as I could, Just hunting for
flaws and for things to dislike.
And - I couldn't find an,
I think "Life's Too short“ is one of the most charming,
gracious,
clever and entertaining things
I have ever read.
There‘: my honest opinion - and I have to say it, even
though you might dlstrust my honesty from new on.
In all
sincerity,
I would have preferred to
find something to
criticise in it.
But I read it with delight — and I only
wished there were more of it.
I told my husband some of
the charming little incidents from it,
and we
laughed
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><b>To Channing Pollock</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">349 East 49th Street<br /></span>New York City</p>
<p>June 8, 1941</p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, L. I.<br />New York</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Pollock: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for your letters and—most enthusiastically—for the manuscript of “Life’s Too Short.” No, I have not been ill, but almost wish I had—it would have been pleasanter than the activity which has kept me busy during this last week. I will explain it to you when I see you—and, I think, you will forgive my silence.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have waited to write to you until after I had read “Life’s Too Short”, which I have just finished. This is going to be a long letter, because the subject deserves it. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">I shall be delighted, of course, to see you on Tuesday the 10th. (Incidentally, I am only too happy if you find it convenient to “use my flat as an office,” as you put it.) I have several things I would like to discuss with you in connection with our organization. I must say here that it was great news to hear that DeWitt Emery may become our executive secretary. It would be splendid. Thank you for the printed copies of our “Declaration.” I have given a few out to some “prospects”—and I should like to tell you about their reaction when I see you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I have not received “The Adventures of a Happy Man” as yet—and I am terribly sorry to think that it probably was lost in the mail. With your permission, I should like to inquire at the post office—I have not done so as yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Now, I am most eager to speak about “Life’s Too Short.”</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> Let me say, first, that I felt very honored by your wanting my opinion of it. Since you challenged my “honesty”, I tried to bend backwards in being honest; I tried to forget my admiration for all your other works and to read it as severely and unsympathetically as I could, just hunting for flaws and for things to dislike. And—I couldn’t find any. I think “Life’s Too Short” is one of the most charming, gracious, clever and entertaining things I have ever read. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">There’s my </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">honest</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">opinion—and I have to say it, even though you might distrust my honesty from now on. In all sincerity, I would have preferred to find something to criticize in it. But I read it with delight—and I only wished there were more of it. I told my husband some of the charming little incidents from it, and we laughed</span></p>
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this our first
and clearest aim - we will be nothing but
"just one more of the games"
Also, we must avoid all
generalities, compromises. "softening up " and attempts to
pacify or appeal to too many different viewpoints.
They all
do that - and fail.
Unless we stick very clearly, militantly
and decisively to our basic
px-imiploa
;.~2-1nc1;>1es -
and
keep
these
clear-out - we will become another ineffectual
patriotic organization.
I am glad that you hate orcloz-ed the copies of our
Deolaratiom
I have had no luck at all with printers hero.
Th»
prices
gnotecl were much higher
than yours.
You write that you have inscribed for 7:9 ex copy of
‘The Adventures of a. Happy Mm," last Tuesday.
since
receiving your letter,
have been v‘9.1tm:;; fur {Lt - but
it has not arrived as yet and I hope that nothing has
happened to 5.2:.
I do want to thar.-1: you for doing; this,
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it - even thouatz
I am sorry that you would not let :29 buy my own eopy.
1‘h'€§'e are so few authors whom I like to "sup;'.vn1't‘.."
mo
I ma looking forward most eagerly to reading;0*
the
unpublished atxtobiogragnhg v.:l~.5.ch grow. prc»z'.~.1sar?. tn
.
read.
And I will be "honest" -- but I am sure I won't
fiat} it d1tm"T2E£’ to be.
I an enclosing; a list of the addresses you needed
for our latent names.
on the list you sent me I did not
find the; n:a;n.e of Gael Snyder who was on our first list.
If you have not written to him, I would avggest sending
mm an invitsxtisn, bocazma he would be very good for us
to have.
He can be reached 0/0 The lsiaomillan company.
with my best regards -
in the name or both mconnors.
Sincerely,
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">2.<br /><br />this our first and clearest aim—we will be nothing but “just one more of the same.” Also, we must avoid all generalities, compromises, “softening up” and attempts to pacify or appeal to too many different view-points. They all do that—and fail. Unless we stick very clearly, militantly and decisively to our basic principles—and keep these principles clear-cut—we </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">will</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">become another ineffectual patriotic organization. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am glad that you have ordered the copies of our Declaration. I have had no luck at all with printers here. The prices quoted were much higher than yours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">You write that you have inscribed for me a copy of “The Adventures of a Happy Man,” last Tuesday. Since receiving your letter, I have been waiting for it—but it has not arrived as yet and I hope that nothing has happened to it. I do want to thank you for doing this, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it—even though I </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">am</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> sorry that you would not let me buy my own copy. There are so few authors whom I like to “support.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am looking forward most eagerly to reading the unpublished autobiography which you promised to let me read. And I </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">will</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> be “honest”—but I am sure I won’t find it difficult to be.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am enclosing a list of the addresse</span><span style="font-weight:400;">s</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> you needed for our latest names. On the list you sent me I did not find the name of Carl Snyder who was on our first list. If you have not written to him, I would suggest sending him an invitation, because he would be very good for us to have. He can be reached c/o The Macmillan Company.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With my best regards—in the name of both O’Connors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,</span></p>
__________________________________________<br /><p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">* Nicholas Roosevelt (1892–1982) was a diplomat and journalist.</span></i></p>
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llr.
charming Pollock
anon-chum.
low York
Dear M1‘:
Long Island
Pollock:
I was terribly sorry to hear of the hardships which
our oggsnisation work has imposed
n you.
I realize
fully how buss you are and I can o
y express my admiration
for the ideal om which caused you to nndert
this extra
work.
0:‘ course,
you should
he earnest
forced tgfintinue
do so much
sine;1e-handed.
My not
most
s .>".-"cation to
is
that we do not '.‘:9.1t mush longer for our "17-ems."
we can
proceed with those we have.
They are prominent enough to
insure the ;roe3tig;e of the organization and to I‘|3‘.”lC>V9 from
it any suspicion of “rocket.”
If we now call 6. meeting of
those who have agreed to join us, we can take out our
inoorporation papers,
raise
the necessary funds -
detail, routine work i‘ro:u tau.
I rsall
do
1 large number of pronimmt men is abooiutol‘
tho bo¢3inr;in5.
What we need most is mzalitz, not
ns in all social matters.
The other
names
will
when they see us going; ahead.
It you prefer to
wait
and remove
t believe that
ecoeeary at
qr.-antit-3 join us
r. e. oonoroto 1:-roggrarz of action.
a little
longer for the latest
answers‘ I would suggest that we meet at least with these
or our
r.o.noo" who are here in New York.
‘Buoy could suggest
other names -
and take over some or the work and oorrespondenod
which you are carrying alone at present.
I can help on that,
or course, but my name is not prominent enough to sign alone
to the original invitations.
I would be afraid to go through "who's
in search
of new names
because names as such are not what we want;
we want ;"2G0{: o who
are widely known as representing our
prinoiples: and we must be ve
certain of the political
viewpoint of those we invite
a serve on our CO.3;“.1t1300;
a prominent person whore: we migght invite merely for the
sake oi‘ his prominomo could do us more harm than good.
I
think Mr.
Nicholas Roosevelt's opinion that our
organization ";.>ou1d be just one more of the same" is a.
very important criticism for us to roznozabor.
we must
make it very ole” that we intend to formulate and
re
».
a basic IDEOLOGY oi‘ Jlndividunlism and
up.‘
on, 9. comp
pnilosoplfi of Hrs re-stated in the terms of the twentieth
century.
to organization is doing that.
If we don’ t make
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<p><b>To Channing Pollock<br /></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">May 27, 1941</span></p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />Shoreham, Long Island<br />New York</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Pollock:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I was terribly sorry to hear of the hardships which our organization work has imposed upon you. I realize fully how busy you are and I can only express my admiration for the idealism which caused you to undertake this extra work. Of course, you should not be forced to continue to do so much single-handed. My most earnest suggestion is that we do not wait much longer for our “names.” We can proceed with those we have. They are prominent enough to ensure the prestige of the organization and to remove from it any suspicion of “racket.” If we now call a meeting of those who have agreed to join us, we can take out our incorporation papers, raise the necessary funds—and remove detail, routine work from you. I really do not believe that a large number of prominent men is absolutely necessary at the beginning. What we need most is quality, not quantity—as in all social matters. The other “names” will join us when they see us going ahead on a concrete program of action. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">If you prefer to wait a little longer for the latest answers, I would suggest that we meet at least with those of our “names” who are here in New York. They could suggest other names—and take over some of the work and correspondence which you are carrying alone at present. I can help on that, of course, but my name is not prominent enough to sign alone to the original invitations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I would be afraid to go through “Who’s Who”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">in search of new names, because names as such are not what we want; we want people who are widely known as representing our principles; and we must be </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">very</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span><span style="font-weight:400;">certain of the political view-point of those we invite to serve on our Committee; a prominent person whom we might invite merely for the sake of his prominence could do us more harm than good. </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-weight:400;">I think Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt’s</span><span style="font-weight:400;">[*]</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> opinion that our organization “would be just one more of the same” is a very important criticism for us to remember. We must make it very clear that we intend to </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">formulate and propagate</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">a basic </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">IDEOLOGY</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">of Individualism and Capitalism, a complete philosophy of life re-stated in the terms of the twentieth century. No organization is doing </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">that</span></span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">. </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">If we don’t make</span></b></p>
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public good comes
attempt
I
from individuals - we have to
it.
an anxious
to have your opinion or the
manifesto, so I am sending it to {on while I am
working on the short "declaration , which will
bu ready and mailed. to you tomorrow.
Sincerely yours,
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">(2)<br /><br />public good comes from individuals—we have to attempt it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am anxious to have your opinion of the Manifesto, so I am sending it to you while I am working on the short “declaration”, which will be ready and mailed to you tomorrow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
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Ray 15
1941
Hr. Ghennina Pollock
600 west End Avene
new York City
D061‘ Ml‘.
P0110013
Here it in.
This may not be the rinel version,
but it includes all the baoic issues which, I think,
should be stated to mke our "ideology" clear and
consistent.
This is what
see
someone do.
all alone.
I have been waiting for years to
I really never intended to do
I can tell you now that
it
I was plain
scared when you asked me to
do it. An also
flattered.
I had thought that ou Comittee
would undertake the writing or some such document
as its first action.
But I suppose I was contra»
dieting myself there - one can't do those
things
collectively.
Someone has to start.
However,
this is the point where I need all the "collective"
help possible.
I think that after you have read it
and we make such changes as you suggest, we will
have to submit it to our Cozrmittee, get their reactions and dvico and than formulate the final
hepo before it is published or made public.
when
it is rellaeed, I think it should bear the signatures
of our Committee - let us be the aianre of e not
Declaration of Inependence.
I hope you won't find that I am too mush of an
Intellectual Egotist in this Innireato a which, or
course, I a.
Frankly and proudly, not epologetically.
some people might say that we should not come right out
with such a doctrine.
But I think we must.
Evasion
and ccmromise have killed all pro-capitalist movements
so far.
I think the tragedy of Capitalism from the
beginning has been the lack of a consistent idology
of its own.
It moved on the strangest mixture ct
Gollaotiviat-Christian-Equalitarian-Humanitarian
concepts, the worst mental hedge-podge in history.
Are we to be the ones who will clear it up?
I don't
know.
It sounds presumtuoua.
But that is what I
would like to see us do.
And since I preach that all
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<p><strong>To Channing Pollock</strong></p>
<p>May 1, 1941</p>
<p>Mr. Channing Pollock<br />600 West End Avenue<br />New York City</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Pollock:</p>
<p>Here it is [the Manifesto]. This may not be the final version, but it includes all the basic issues which, I think, should be stated to make our “ideology” clear and consistent.</p>
<p>This is what I have been waiting for years to see someone do. I really never intended to do it all alone. I can tell you now that I was plain scared when you asked me to do it. And also flattered. I had thought that our Committee would undertake the writing of some such document as its first action. But I suppose I was contradicting myself there—one can’t do those things collectively. Someone has to start. However, this is the point where I need all the “collective” help possible. I think that after you have read it and we make such changes as you suggest, we will have to submit it to our Committee, get their reactions and advice and then formulate the final shape before it is published or made public. When it is released, I think it should bear the signatures of our Committee—let us be the signers of a new Declaration of Independence.</p>
<p>I hope you won’t find that I am too much of an Intellectual Egotist in this Manifesto—which, of course, I am. Frankly and proudly, not apologetically. Some people might say that we should not come right out with such a doctrine. But I think we must. Evasion and compromise have killed all pro-capitalist movements so far. I think the tragedy of Capitalism from the beginning has been the lack of a consistent ideology of its own. It moved on the strangest mixture of Collectivist-Christian-Equalitarian-Humanitarian concepts, the worst mental hodge-podge in history. Are we to be the ones who will clear it up? I don’t know. It sounds presumptuous. But that is what I would like to see us do. And since I preach that all</p>
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The
rianiteeto
took twelve hours Saturday and
fifteen yesterday - I go
for meals.
I shall have
at
it
it with inter:-u_-;t1ons only
finished tomorrow and mail
it to you as soon as it is typed.
It 1:111 be quite a
bit longer than 2,500 words, because 1t must pnaent
the whole groundwork of our "Party Line" and be a beam
document, such as the covrnmist ??an.t1'esto was on the
other side.
However, I cum: the problem can be solved
by having two Eiexzitestouz that is, 9. very short declaration
of our pr1T1'éIp-lea and aims - for the purpose of recruiting
members, and the complete text for those who Join.
I
shall have then both ready to eubmit to you within the
next few days.
I do not
think that recruiting; will prove to be
I major problem.
Once started, it will so on its own
momentwn.
The need is there.
so is the audience.
Just
let peogle know what m are doing and we won't have to go
after then - they will come to us.
As far as ra.nk-andfile membership is concerned, I believe I can get hundreds
within a ten days.
The major
our Committee together.
And I
started.
step,
I
omit tell you how happy I
think,
1s.to
get
an that we have
stnoerely yours,
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">(2)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The Manifesto took twelve hours Saturday and fifteen yesterday—I go at it with interruptions only for meals. I shall have it finished tomorrow and mail it to you as soon as it is typed. It will be quite a bit longer than 2,500 words, because it must present the whole groundwork of our “Party Line” and be a basic document, such as the Communist Manifesto</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">was on the other side. However, I think the problem can be solved by having </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">two</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> M</span><span style="font-weight:400;">anifestos; that is, a very short declaration of our principles and aims—for the purpose of recruiting members, and the complete text for those who join. I shall have them both ready to submit to you within the next few days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I do not think that recruiting will prove to be a major problem. Once started, it will go on its own momentum. The need is there. So is the audience. Just let people know what we are doing and we won’t have to go after them—they will come to us. As far as rank-and-file membership is concerned, I believe I can get hundreds within a few days. The major step, I think, is to get our Committee together.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">And I can’t tell you how happy I am that we have started.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
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April
28,
3.941
Ir. cumming Pollock
600 west End. Avenue
Ion York: City
Deer litre Pollock:
My compliments
and congratulations on the letter
which you are sending out.
I think it is excellent
and I111 get the kind or response we need.
our 113% of names looks very impressive -we will get 0.11 or most or them to join us.
the mucosa: of which you were not certain:
can-1
I hope
Here
are
or
o o The Faaomillan Germany
60 Fifth Avenue
New York City
James Trualow Adams
o/o Amerioofla Future,
205 East 42nd Street
Inc.
new York City
Dr.
Kaake
c/o Amerxcen Economic Foundation
tianna Building
Cleveland,
3.
8.
Ohio
Pettonglll
o/o America's Future,
205 East 42nd. Street:
Inc.
New York City
I have
thought or three more names,
to Lothrop Stoddard and none.
to you over the telephone.
in addition
Sheeen whom I mentioned
They are:
H.
L.
Iienoken
(I believeMary
he can
be 2-esxched
throu7‘h
the American
nerouty),
Roberts
Rinehart,
c o Farrar
3: Rinehart,
Dr. Ruth Alexamier, c/o American iiconomic Foundation,
100 East 42nd Street, New York City.
Gets
Than}: ion for the 00,7;-,' of "‘.“:hy Hate The .1-ion who
Ahead?
I enjoyed reading it very much.
I think
it 13 good - because 3.1: presuxxlsa an Laportant thought
whfizfi 19 not being stressed often emudlx today.
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<p><b>To Channing Pollock</b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">“The Individualist Manifesto” was an 8,000-word statement of AR’s ethical/ political philosophy, which has not been published. She also wrote a 1,500 word version entitled “The Individualist Credo,” published in the January 1944 issue of </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Reader’s Digest</span><i><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> as “The Only Path to Tomorrow" (re-worded without Ayn Rand's approval). A proper version is published in </span></i></i><span style="font-weight:400;">The Ayn Rand Column</span><i><i><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></i></i></p>
<p><i><i><span style="font-weight:400;">__________________________________________</span></i></i></p>
<p>April 28, 1941</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Channing Pollock<br />600 West End Avenue<br />New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Pollock:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">My compliments and congratulations on the letter which you are sending out. I think it is excellent and will get the kind of response we need.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Our list of names looks very impressive—I hope we will get all or most of them to join us. Here are the addresses of which you were not certain:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Carl Snyder<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">c/o The Macmillan Company<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">60 Fifth Avenue<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">James Truslow Adams<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">c/o America’s Future, Inc.<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">205 East 42nd Street<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Haake<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">c/o American Economic Foundation<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Hanna Building<br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Cleveland, Ohio</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">S. B. Pettengill<br /></span>c/o America’s Future, Inc.<br />205 East 42nd Street<br />New York City</p>
<p>I have thought of three more names, in addition to Lothrop Stoddard and Mons. Sheean whom I mention to you over the telephone. They are: H. L. Mencken (I believe he can be reached through the American Mercury), Mary Roberts Rinehart, c/o Farrar & Rinehart, Dr. Ruth Alexander, c/o American Economic Foundation, 100 East 42nd Street, New York City.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for the copy of “Why Hate The Man Who Gets Ahead?” I enjoyed reading it very much. I think it </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">is</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> good—because it presents an important thought which is not being stressed often enough today.</span></p>
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directing oozvmitteeo
I am firmly convinced that
it we could get together - as you suggested in our
convereation - about fifty men or good reputation
and standing in their various professions,
our political convictions would be accomplished right
enthusiastic
that the
and,
perhaps,
groundword for
who
the most important
there.
I am still
share
step
naive enough to believe
the
entire program or the
organization could be laid out at one such meeting
(probably a long one).
It you find time on your lecture tour to
write to me and send me the names 01' these men, I
will go to see them, and I an very willing to do
all the explaining, contacting, arranging and
general running around.
I can get any number or
young people to do all the "ground" work.
But it
I proceed
with
these 1;X3.
realize
what
a long
our
you
1'.people
would on
take
toown,
achieve
the effectiveness which A committee oi‘ prominent
men would give us.
I am sending this letter special delivery
in order that it may reach you before you leave.
I
wish you great success on your tour and I know that
there
are a great,
who will
appreciate
goat many people left in America
the
ideas you represent.
Thanking you for your courtesy and
understanding,
sincerely.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">directing committee. I am firmly convinced that if we could get together—as you suggested in our conversation—about fifty men of good reputation and standing in their various professions, who share our political convictions—the most important step would be accomplished right there. I am still enthusiastic and, perhaps, naive enough to believe that the groundwork for the entire program of the organization could be laid out at one such meeting (probably a long one). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">If you find time on your lecture tour to write to me and send me the names of these men, I will go to see them, and I am very willing to do all the explaining, contacting, arranging and general running around. I can get any number of young people to do all the “ground” work. But if I proceed with these young people on our own, you realize what a long time it would take to achieve the effectiveness which a committee of prominent men would give us. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am sending this letter special delivery in order that it may reach you before you leave. I wish you great success on your tour and I know that there are a great, great many people left in America who will appreciate the ideas you represent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for your courtesy and understanding,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely,</span></p>
__________________________________________<br /><p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">* “To All Innocent Fifth Columnists” was AR’s 5,000-word critique of those whose silence aids collectivism. (“The totalitarians in this country do not want your active support . . . . All they want from you is indifference.”) It has been published in </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Journals of Ayn Rand</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">, ed. David Harriman (Penguin: New York, 1997). </span></i></p>
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Ir. chsnnins Pollock
600 west End Avenue
lei York City
DOII‘ K1‘:
or
me.
P0110038
Thank you for your letter and the copy
"what can we Do For Democracy?‘ which you sent
It was
an intellectual
treat
for me to read
your lecture.
one has so tew occasions nowadays
to see in print ideas such as yours - and so well
expressed.
I was very glad to hear that
on approved
of my “To All Innocent Firth Columnists .
And I
shall be only too happy it you find that you can
use any or it in your lectures «- with or without
credit.
I do not care at all about credit, but I
care tremendously to have these ideas spread in
every possible manner.
‘
I realize
the difficulties that would
confront you if you headed a national organization
such as I have in mind.
But my plan would not necessarily burden you with a big administrative
ob.
Your contribution would be "ideological" or
tellectusl guidance, at the head or a committee
somewhat on the order of the Advisory Board which
you suggest in “what can We Do For Democracy?"
since our "ideology" (I hate the word, but it’:
the most expressive one to convey my meaning)
would be very much in line with that or your
lectures, your work on such a committee would
demand some time and thought, but no additional
writing or research or slackening or your own
writing; and lecturing activities.
The exedutive
and administrative side of the organization could
be turned over to other men - under the guidance
or the committee.
The
first problem,
or course,
would be
to select the members of this committee.
11', upon
hxrther consideration, you find that you are willing
to make an attempt toward an organization or this
kind, I would ask you to think over the names of
those whom you consider the right people for the
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<p><b>To Channing Pollock</b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Channing Pollock (1880–1946) was a successful Broadway writer, responsible for such shows as the </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Ziegfeld Follies </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">of 1911, 1915 and 1921 and other plays, many of which were turned into films. <br />__________________________________________</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">March 7, 1941</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Channing Pollock<br />600 West End Avenue<br />New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Pollock: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Thank you for your letter and the copy of “What Can We Do For Democracy?” which you sent me. It was an intellectual treat for me to read your lecture. One has so few occasions nowadays to see in print ideas such as yours—and so well expressed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I was very glad to hear that you approved of my “To All Innocent Fifth Columnists”.</span><span style="font-weight:400;">[*]</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> And I shall be only too happy if you find that you can use any of it in your lectures—with or without credit. I do not care at all about credit, but I care tremendously to have these ideas spread in every possible manner. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I realize the difficulties that would confront you if you headed a national organization [upholding individualism] such as I have in mind. But my plan would not necessarily burden you with a big administrative job. Your contribution would be “ideological” or intellectual guidance, at the head of a committee somewhat on the order of the Advisory Board which you suggest in “What Can We Do For Democracy?” Since our “ideology” (I hate the word, but it’s the most expressive one to convey my meaning) would be very much in line with that of your lectures, your work on such a committee would demand some time and thought, but no additional writing or research or slackening of your own writing and lecturing activities. The executive and administrative side of the organization could be turned over to other men—under the guidance of the committee. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The first problem, of course, would be to select the members of this committee. If, upon further consideration, you find that you are willing to make an attempt toward an organization of this kind, I would ask you to think over the names of those whom you consider the right people for the</span></p>
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Dr.
Virgil J0:-den.
mu.-.1 onel
Intmatrial Conference
Boartii, ‘.—;:é.-‘.v“ Park Avenue, Maw ‘irtgrk City.
(This last organization cannot send out outside publicity material, but
La‘. Jordan can he gresstly 1ru=.~1p.'E‘ul and is an exxtlluaiaatie
admired of "'I%*1e God of the ”-Siiachine" which he has read.)
In conclusicn,
191; me
say that
"me God of
the
’f¢Ia<:h3.nn"
1:3 a heck mat will live forever and will have a great
influence cm the thinking; of mankind.
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is can
an take
become
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a ggreat: of
commercial
it nms and.
asset
stand
— whieh
be‘u3.nri 5.9
it,
a
pr-o;.ver reward for its
auttxor
with my host v-isksws for
and géublislxer.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">4.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Virgil Jordan, National Industrial Conference Board, 247 Park Avenue, New York City. (This last organization cannot send out outside publicity material, but Dr. Jordan can be greatly helpful and is an enthusiastic admirer of “The God of the Machine” which he has read.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">In conclusion, let me say that “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is a book that will live forever and will have a great influence on the thinking of mankind. But if you, as a publisher, take advantage of it now and stand behind it, it can also become a great commercial asset—which is a proper reward for its author and publisher. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">With my best wishes for success,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
<p><br />Ayn Rand<br />__________________________________________</p>
<p><i><span>AR’s final assessment of </span></i><span>The God of the Machine</span><i><span> was expressed in her review of the book in the October 1964 issue of </span></i><span>The Objectivist Newsletter</span><i><span>. It is, she wrote, “a brilliant and extraordinary book that narrowly misses greatness.” Though stressing the virtues of the book, AR points out some relatively minor organizational and philosophic flaws, but concludes her review: “The battle </span></i><span>[for human liberty]</span><i><span> is not over—and in that great line of heroic and intellectual effort, </span></i><span>The God of the Machine</span><i><span> itself is another illustrious link.”<br /></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-weight:400;">AR and her husband returned to California in December</span></i><i><span style="font-weight:400;">.</span></i></p>
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Ton publishers reéected it — because it was "too s‘tI*oz1¢§",
“too intellectual , nd they said it would not sell.
Look
at it now.
It has sold abaut 26,000 copies at thia writing,
has had seven printlnga
growing every
week.
in
six months,
fine original
and he
sales
are
exgloitution campaign of
my p'.1b15.sh«3r's was not large - but: may die! inform the
public of the nature of my book.
Ehe public did the rest.
From the fan mail I am getting, I know that it is not the
story or any particular literary merit of mine, but the
idea of the book, the philosophy of inciividualism, t;1:_xa,t: is
aeixing the book.
The idea answers a pubiic awed.
“fine God
of the fiachine" would answer it much more effettively ~
greciselg because
Incidentall
of
the
it
,
don't let
a
“too
machine"
the head of
the
avwrage
it to many people,
formal education.
atanding
is nt fiction.
anyone
tell you that
"ihe God
difficult
to undaratand” or
reader.’
I hava given copies of
"above
mat of them men and women without
They nad no trouble reading and under-
the beak.
They were enthusiastic
about
it.
As a prafizical sugpeaticn, I would like to urge you
to make mimeographed pubxicity relea&aaq;on& the lines of
this letter — and send them to editors, columnists, political
commentators ali over fine aoanbryg aa well as to industrial
leaders, and even to book stores.
But ggg just to book
reviewers and she usual brads channels.
‘$1939 alune will
not do
the
job.
I would
have
to be
along
suggest
large,
these lines,
I would
the help of
that you
but
take
a few
must be mogt
for full
sugwast
the
they
ada ~
they don't
carefully
wordad
affect.
that yam discuss
man listed below.
the book and enlist
It wculfi be
uaat helpful
if you met than in peraan.
I have syoken to them about
"The God of the macnine“, but a C0uVG?u&tiQfl with the publisher
could have better practical results.
Thaaa men represent
organizations with tnousada of 353 members.
If yau make
tha proper arrangements, they would sand out cireulara and
pub.Licfx.ty to
readers mash
this
for my
Mr.
295
their rnemh‘m:'snipa ~—- a roaaay-made field of
lntereated in the subjeat.
They are doing
beak.
Frea u.
‘
Clark,
Madison avenue,
Dr.
E.
Rumely,
Committee for Constitutiona “overnmenb,
205
East éand straoa.
350
Fifth avenue.
Mr.
Merwin K.
American Eoonandc foundation,
New Ygrk City.
New
Kart,
Yark City
National
New York City
Ecunomic Uouuuil,
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">3.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Ten publishers rejected it because it was “too strong”, “too intellectual”, and they said it would not sell. Look at it now. It has sold about 25,000 copies at this writing, has had seven printings in six months, and the sales are growing every week. The original exploitation campaign of my publishers was not large—but they did inform the public of the nature of my book. The public did the rest. From the fan mail I am getting, I know that it is not the story or any particular literary merit of mine, but the </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">idea</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">of the book, the philosophy of individualism, that is selling the book. The idea answers a public need. “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">would answer it much more effectively—</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">precisely</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">because it is not fiction. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Incidentally, don’t let anyone tell you that “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is “too difficult to understand” or “above the head of the average reader.” I have given copies of it to many people, most of them men and women without formal education. They had no trouble reading and understanding the book. They were enthusiastic about it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As a practical suggestion, I would like to urge you to make mimeographed publicity releases along the lines of this letter—and send them to editors, columnists, political commentators all over the country, as well as to industrial leaders, and even to book stores. But </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">not</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> just to book reviewers and the usual trade channels. These alone will not do the job. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I would suggest that you take a few ads—they don’t have to be large, but they must be most carefully worded along these lines, for full effect. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I would suggest that you discuss the book and enlist the help of the men [conservative business leaders] listed below. It would be most helpful if you met them in person. I have spoken to them about “The God of the Machine”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">but a conversation with the publisher could have better practical results. These men represent organizations with thousands of members. If you make the proper arrangements, they would send out circulars and publicity to their memberships—a ready-made field of readers most interested in the subject. They are doing this for my book. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Fred G. Clark, American Economic Foundation, 295 Madison Avenue, New York City </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dr. E. [sic] Rumely, Committee for Constitutional Government, 205 East 42rd Street, New York City </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Mervin K. Hart, National Economic Council, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City</span></p>
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head. of the
Research Department
at
the National Heath-
quartars of the Asscclated. “mlicie clubs.
If; was my job
to rm: and spread literature in support of capitalism.
At that
leotual
time I :s:.‘.w the dc:-sperate public need for intolammunition.
We received letmz-3 by the thousands,
begging as for informatian.
Ponple said in effect that
they wanted to detand free enterprise, but did. not know
how to
it; t.hc.;-; get :tu:rn;<>d by collr-.~c%:3.v1st arggumants
and had no answars.
They begged us for answers.
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*1at: whenever we sun
out some mild, ineffectual, conprou
n!.1sing‘p1»:ace at camp
heuevur we 5n:
cut
writing
- we go
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gn literature, we got no response.
a clear, strnng, consistent piece of
reqxzests
up with
the
for thousamia of reprints,
demand from laeal
clubs
we
and
private individuals.
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situation 1a true now -
only more so.
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is a1f.u.g;;e: xix ;..«=n..?::3.2.c. cio.:u:»_nd for r-m:m.m3.t1on a.;;a5.nst eollectivism,
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simply go5.n_g begging.
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weak, muddled, unccnvincing and ineffectual that
has been diaappointezd too often and in now wary.
b)
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is not
smother
"znidd.le-or-the-road”
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the public
but
an
the nature
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the how; that
five mariers .:'.~:m:m.1nit10n in any argument
mm collectivists. the book that will answer their every
quesstion ancl tell them evrarzrtirxingg they «want to knew about
A.:ner3.ca.nism - philosophically, historically, economically.
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general
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this.
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">2.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">head of the Research Department at the National Headquarters of the Associated Wilkie [sic] Clubs. It was my job to find and spread literature in support of capitalism. At that time I saw the desperate public need for intellectual ammunition. We received letters by the thousands, begging us for information. People said in effect that they wanted to defend free enterprise, but did not know how to do it; they got stumped by collectivist arguments and had no answers. They begged us for answers. More than that: whenever we sent out some mild, ineffectual, compromising piece of campaign literature, we got no response. Whenever we sent out a clear, strong, consistent piece of writing—we got requests for thousands of reprints, we could not keep up with the demand from local clubs and private individuals. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The same situation is true now—only more so. There is a huge public demand for ammunition against collectivism, an actual public hunger—which no one tries to satisfy. There is a market which is simply going begging. “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is the answer—and a potential gold-mine for its publishers, if properly exploited. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">But to do this, you must inform the public that: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">a) It is </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">not</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> just another book on free enterprise. So many of them have been published and they were so bad, weak, muddled, </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">unconvincing and ineffectual that the public has been </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">disappointed too often and is now wary.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">b) It is </span><span style="font-weight:400;">not </span><span style="font-weight:400;">another “middle-of-the-road” mess, but a clear, strong, </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">fighting document. (Don’t soften the nature of the book—</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">stress</span></span> it.<span style="font-weight:400;">)<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">c) It is </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">the</span></span> <span style="font-weight:400;">book on capitalism and individualism, the book that will </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">give readers ammunition in any argument with collectivists, the </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">book that will answer their every question and tell them </span> <span style="font-weight:400;">everything they want to know about Americanism—</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">philosophically, historically, economically, morally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><span>If </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span>this</span></span><span> </span><span>were told to the public—through a clear, well-thought-out campaign of publicity backed by a few intelligent ads—(such a campaign would not even need to be too costly, merely well-planned and through the right channels)—there would be no stopping the sale of the book. The response would astonish you—not merely response from “important” men and intellectuals, but from average people and the general public. Let me assure you of this. I know. </span><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />As a minor illustration, let me mention the fate of my own book “The Fountainhead.”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">It is a novel on individualism.</span></p>
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East 55th street
new York City
November
M‘. Earle Ha
G‘: P: P‘utn5.m'S
28,
1945
SODS
2 West 45th Street
Mew Ybrk City
Dear
Mr.
this
To
to
Ba1ch:'
supplomsnt our racant conversation, I am writing
urge upon you my conviction on to tremendous
historical importance and the great commercial possibilities
of "The God of the Hachine" by Isabel Paterson.
"The Gad of
the
Machine“
is
ths graatast book written
in the last three hundred years.
It is the first comylete
statement of the philosophy of individualism as a political
and eccnomic system.
It is the basic document of capitalism.
book
Np historical rnvemant has
that stated its grinciples
ever succaeded without a
and gave shape to its thinking.
without a formulated system of thetght, n consiatent human
action is possible; such action can result only in selfcontradictory confusion and ultimate
has never had this basic statement.
tragedy.
Capitalism
That is why the American
system, which gava fiankind tha greatest, ungrecefiented,
miraculous blessings, is now in the process of destroying
itself.
Men do not knnw what they had, what they are losing
and how
is
they
are losing it.
They had no book
to
tell tham.
But they have the book now.
"me God or the machine"
a document that could literally save the world -tif
enough ‘eagle knew of it and raad it.
"the God of the
Machine" does for capitalism what the Bible did for
Christianity — and, forgive the comparison, what "Dan Kapitalfi
did for Comwunism or “Mein Kampf” for fiazism.
It takes a
book to
save or destroy
Theta is
a vast
the world.
a tremendous
audience,
waiting
market for
and
ready
~
"The God of the
but it must be
Machine",
raached
in the proper way.
As you can see now « and most particularly
since the lflfit election ~ the American geople are desgerately
anxious to gresarve the system of free enterprise.
But they
are bewildered and confused.
They would grab a book that
would give them tha arguments and wnmunition they need.
But
they must be told that this is the book.
During
the preaidential
campaign of 1340,
I normed aa
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<p><b><b>To Earle H. Balch, editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons</b></b></p>
<p>139 East 35th Street<br />New York City</p>
<p>November 28, 1943</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Mr. Earle H. Balch<br />G. P. Putnam's Sons<br />2 West 45th Street<br />New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Balch:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">To supplement our recent conversation, I am writing this to urge upon you my conviction on the tremendous historical importance and the great commercial possibilities of “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">by Isabel Paterson. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">“The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is the greatest book written in the last three hundred years. It is the first complete statement of the philosophy of individualism as a political and economic system. It is the basic document of capitalism. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">No historical movement has ever succeeded without a book that stated its principles and gave shape to its thinking. Without a formulated system of thought, no consistent human action is possible; such action can result only in self-contradictory confusion and ultimate tragedy. Capitalism has never had this basic statement. That is why the American system, which gave mankind the greatest, unprecedented, miraculous blessings, is now in the process of destroying itself. Men do not know what they had, what they are losing and how they are losing it. They had no book to tell them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">But they have the book now. “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">is a document that could literally save the world—if enough people knew of it and read it. “The God of the Machine”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">does for capitalism what the Bible did for Christianity—and, forgive the comparison, what “Das Kapital”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">did for Communism or “Mein Kampf”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">for Nazism. It takes a book to save or destroy the world. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">There is a tremendous market for “The God of the Machine”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">a vast audience, waiting and ready—but it must be reached in the proper way. As you can see now—and most particularly since the last election—the American people are desperately anxious to preserve the system of free enterprise. But they are bewildered and confused. They would grab a book that would give them the arguments and ammunition they need. But they must be told that </span><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-weight:400;">this</span></span><span style="font-weight:400;"> is the book. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">During the presidential campaign of 1940, I worked as</span></p>
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<p><b>To Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan of Fighting Funds for Finland</b></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight:400;">Finland was engaged in the short Winter War with the USSR. </span></i>__________________________________________</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">160 East 89th Street<br />New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">February 15, 1940</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan<br />Fighting Funds for Finland, Inc.<br />120 Broadway<br />New York City</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Sir,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Enclosed please find my contribution to your fund for the purchase of armaments for Finland. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Allow me to express my admiration for your work in behalf of a great cause.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sincerely yours,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />AYN RAND</span></p>
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2.
pointed,
that he may not have my
possible,
but it does not look
ideas
at
tnat way
He 1oves"!he Fountainhead", he
admires
all.
It's
right now.
my
style of
writing, and he is crazy about Roark.
He says there's
no one in Hollywood who can write dialogue as I do.
Whatever he decides to do with the story later, this
much I can hold to his credit.
fie told m that he fell
in love with the book, that he started reading it and
couldn't pgt it down and dropped all his other business
until he had finished it.
I heard a corroboration of
this from one of his other writers.
Five days
finished the book, warmers had bought it.
This
after he
I am to write my own screen version as I please.
doesn't mean that it will be the final version —
and the battles will probably
start
after I finish it -
but at least I'll have a chance to present my version.
Blanks has given me noobjections and no restrictions,
except on the sex side - we'll have to be careful of
the Hays office and treat such scenes
fiape scene through tactful fade-outs.
As
to
the working conditions of
as
my famous
a Hollywood writer’:
life - they are exactly as one would imagine a Hollywood
writer's life, with all the trimmings.
I have an office
the size of a living room, with another office outside
and a secretary in it.
Nobody can come in without being
announced by my secretary and she answers mg telephone.
The grandeur and the glamor and the pom and circumstance
are simply wonderful.
or course I love it — for the
moment.
But I won't exchange it for the pleasure of
writing as I please.
I haven't gone Hollywood yet.
As to sunny California - Iihflave a miserable cold
ad it's pouring outside.
It's cold, wet and nasty.
I hate Hollywood as a place, just as I did before.
It's overcrowded, vulgar, cheap and sad in a hopeless
sort of way.
The people on the streets are all tense,
eager, suspicious and look unnapyy.
The has—beons and
the would—bes.
I don't think anything in the world
is worth
this kind of
struggle.
I miss New York, in a strange way, with a homesickness I've never felt before for any place on earth.
I'm in love with New York, and I don't mean I love it,
but I mean I'm in love with itsl Frank says that what
I love is not the real city, but the New York I built
myself.
That's
gistful,
n it.
romantic
And this
since you were
true.
Anyway,
I feel
tenderness ‘ for
it —
.
means you,
to
the most unbearable,
and for everybody
a greater extent
than most,‘
the man who let me built my New York.
,
S0 - all my love to you, aleo to Betty, “little Dominique”
and little Archie.
Since this will have to serve as a
.
Ghbistmas card - Merry Christmas and a happy New Year iron
both or on
to
all or you.
4Love,‘
2’
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<p><span style="font-weight:400;">2.<br /><br />pointed, that he may not have my ideas at all. It’s possible, but it does not look that way right now. He loves “The Fountainhead”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">, </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">he admires my style of writing, and he is crazy about Roark. He says there’s no one in Hollywood who can write dialogue as I do. Whatever he decides to do with the story later, this much I can hold to his credit. He told me that he fell in love with the book, that he started reading it and couldn’t put it down and dropped all his other business until he had finished it. I heard a corroboration of this from one of his other writers. Five days after he finished the book, Warners had bought it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I am to write my own screen version as I please. This doesn’t mean that it will be the final version—and the battles will probably start after I finish it—but at least I’ll have a chance to present my version. Blanke has given me no objections and no restrictions, except on the sex side—we’ll have to be careful of the Hays office and treat such scenes as my famous rape scene through tactful fade-outs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As to the working conditions of a Hollywood writer’s life—they are exactly as one would imagine a Hollywood writer’s life, with all the trimmings. I have an office the size of a living room, with another office outside and a secretary in it. Nobody can come in without being announced by my secretary and she answers my telephone. The grandeur and the glamor and the pomp and circumstance are simply wonderful. Of course I love it—for the moment. But I won’t exchange it for the pleasure of writing as I please. I haven’t gone Hollywood yet. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">As to sunny California—I have a miserable cold and it’s pouring outside. It’s cold, wet and nasty. I hate Hollywood as a place, just as I did before. It’s overcrowded, vulgar, cheap and sad in a hopeless sort of way. The people on the streets are all tense, eager, suspicious and look unhappy. The has-beens and the would-bes. I don’t think anything in the world is worth this kind of struggle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">I miss New York, in a strange way, with a homesickness I’ve never felt before for any place on earth. I’m in love with New York, and I don’t mean I love it, but I mean I’m in love with it. Frank says that what I love is not the real city, but the New York I built myself. That’s true. Anyway, I feel the most unbearable, wistful, romantic tenderness for it—and for everybody in it. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">And this means you, to a greater extent than most, since you were the man who let me buil[d] my New York. So—all my love to you, also to Betty, “little Dominique” and little Archie. Since this will have to serve as a Christmas card—Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from both of us to all of you.</span></p>
<p>Love,</p>
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590 North
Hollywood,
Hossmore
California
December 18,
1945
Archie my darling!
Yes,
that‘s
still how I feel
about my one editorial
genius.
I guess distance does that - and slight homoaieknesa.
By the time I crosod the continent, you
became a kind of shining legend in my mind.
how you
and Isabel Paterson star for flew York and for all
the best
that's happened to
me
in New York -
and I
miss you terribly.
Everything has
continues this way,
battles,
grand.
if
The
gone wonderfully so far, I hope it
and I hope IIdon't get spoiled for
there are
trip
was
to be battles
~
but
sheer luxury -
I
simply set
so
far
it's
and
gloated all the way - I'm not quite used yet to the
mink coat standard of living - but travelling in a
private conpartment will teach anyone the pleasure of
capitalism.
Just look at all the wonderful gadgets
next time you're on,a train, see how cleverly designed
they are - and see if you don't feel like blessing
private enterprise, as I did for three thousand mles.
(And forever.)‘~-‘
.
M3} 4
my grand surprise in H011’ led was 3
Blanks,
wthe producer who is to do "The*'ountainhead.
How I
don't want to be rash, but I could almost say that I
think maybe he is almost an Archie Ogden -only I don't
use that comparison promiscuously.
It was Blanke who
discovered the book, that is, he read the book itself,
not a synopsis, then he went to the heads of the studio
and demanded that they buy it.
Doesn't that remind you
or another man in my
est?
You know, it is very strange
how "The Fountainhead‘ keeps illustrating in real life
its own thesis.
It will be my fate, like “oark's, to
seek and reach he exceptions, the prime movers, the
men.who do their own thinking and act upon their own
Judgement.
The Tooheya
and the Clifton Fadimans don*t
count - and may God damn them.
One man out or thousands
is all I need - all an new idea needs - and these on,
the exceptions, will and do move the world.
Whatever Ia
do
in my future career,
I will
always have to
seek and,
‘
reach an Archie Ogden.
You were the first andythe most\lt\
eloquent symbol or what I man.
so whenever I come upon,
that wonderful miracle upong men,
I*l1
give
it your namo;g_
\
or course I know it's too early for me to Judge
Blanks, my producer. I won't know until the script is‘
finished.
I fully realize
that I
my be
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‘
terribly disap-
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<p><b><b>To Archibald Ogden</b></b></p>
<p>590 North Rossmore<br />Hollywood, California</p>
<p>December 18, 1943 <b><b><br /></b></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Archie my darling:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Yes, that’s still how I feel about my one editorial genius. I guess distance does that—and slight homesickness. By the time I crossed the continent, you became a kind of shining legend in my mind. Now you and Isabel Paterson stand for New York and for all the best that’s happened to me in New York—and I miss you terribly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Everything has gone wonderfully so far, I hope it continues this way, and I hope I don’t get spoiled for battles, if there are to be battles—but so far it’s grand. The trip was sheer luxury—I simply sat and gloated all the way—I’m not quite used yet to the mink coat standard of living—but travelling in a private compartment will teach anyone the pleasure of capitalism. Just look at all the wonderful gadgets next time you’re on a train, see how cleverly designed they are—and see if you don’t feel like blessing private enterprise, as I did for three thousand miles. (And forever.) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">My grand surprise in Hollywood was Henry Blanke, the producer who is to do “The Fountainhead.”</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">Now I don’t want to be rash, but I could almost say that I think maybe he is almost an Archie Ogden—only I don’t use that comparison promiscuously. It was Blanke who discovered the book, that is, he read the book itself, not a synopsis, then he went to the heads of the studio and demanded that they buy it. Doesn’t that remind you of another man in my past? You know, it is very strange how “The Fountainhead”</span> <span style="font-weight:400;">keeps illustrating in real life its own thesis. It will be my fate, like Roark’s, to seek and reach the exceptions, the prime movers, the men who do their own thinking and act upon their own judgment. The Tooheys and the Clifton Fadimans don’t count—and may God damn them. One man out of thousands is all I need—all any new idea needs—and these men, the exceptions, will and do move the world. Whatever I do in my future career, I will always have to seek and reach an Archie Ogden. You were the first and the most eloquent symbol of what I mean. So whenever I come upon that wonderful miracle among men, I’ll give it your name. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Of course I know it’s too early for me to judge Blanke, my producer, I won’t know until the script is finished. I fully realize that I may be terribly disap-</span></p>
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book in the best way possible
to him.
So honor is
all
I have
to
reL
on now.
Honor, honesty and integrity are matters of intelligence,
reason and action, not of good will, oxntion, sentiment, desires,
instincts and mush.
Let the conscience of whoever is concerned yourself, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Baker,
tell you what must be done now;
All
I
can
add is
that
my life
Miss
is
at
Reynolds
stake.
and
Also
all
others
yours.
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<p>book in the best way possible to him. So honor is all I have to rely on now. Honor, honesty and integrity are matters of intelligence, reason and action, not of good will, emotion, sentiment, desires, instincts and mush. Let the conscience of whoever is concerned—yourself, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Baker, Miss Reynolds and all others—tell you what must be done now.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">All I can add is that my life is at stake. Also yours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;"><br />Ayn</span></p>
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