Letter from Frederic Hastings Smyth to Herbert Cahoon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947 May 16 : typescript signed.

Expressing pleasure that Cahoon liked an article on art published by Sam Caumann, the wife of whom "is a niece of Rabbi Wise [Stephen S. Wise, 1874-1949, American Reform rabbi, Zionist leader, and founding member of the NAACP] and has a Ph.D. in Logic from Harvard"; thanking him for his generous contribution and asking him to write "something revolutionary" next time; expressing the need to expand their mailing list and put it on a subscription basis, but acknowledging that the five hundred copies presently produced "are just absolutely all I can manage"; musing that "we have hit upon a rather unusual combination of theological theory applied to Marxist analyses", in which "many hundreds, at least" would be interested, but which is at the moment prohibitively costly to print in their bulletin; saying that Cahoon's trip West "sounds marvellous" and that "when you are in Portland [Oregon] please look up The Rev'd William S. Van Meter his wife Jane; commenting that Seldon [Edwin Seldon, 1917-1984?] "gets around" and that he hopes he "is not being too inconsiderate of his mother".