HENRY HAZLITT - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 04/21/1981 - HFSID 264477

HENRY HAZLITT
Hazlitt writes to fellow writers - the Holzers
Typed Letter Signed: "Harry", 1 page, 8½x11. Wilton, Connecticut, 1981 April 21. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mark Holzer, Mt. Kisco, N.Y. In full: "Dear Erika and Hank: This is a letter to each of you. First, Erika, let me thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending Frances and myself a copy of your new novel DOUBLE CROSSING and to congratulate you on its publication. The four endorsements you have got from well known authors on the back of the jacket will insure your book good hearing and we hope it will have the greatest success. I hope to get very soon to the pleasure of reading it. To you, Hank, I am sending a copy of a column I have written for the SILVER AND GOLD REPORT on the confiscation of gold in 1933. You will see that I have drawn very heavily on your first rate account of the episode in the Brooklyn Law Review. (Rather I have drawn on a condensation of that article in the WALL STREET JOURNAL. If there is any way of getting hold of the article itself, I would appreciate knowing about it). I lived through that episode, and even wrote a few things about it, though at the time I was literary editor of THE NATION and my dominant interests were then in another direction. Frances joins me in sending you both our warmest affection and regards. Sincerely, [signature] P.S. I have just been upset by noticing belatedly that in the printed version of my piece SILVER & GOLD REPORT spelled your name incorrectly. It was correct on my copy and when I first read the printed version I did not notice the error - oh damn! I'll write them, but you can never really catch up on these things!" HENRY HAZLITT (1894-1993) was a longtime columnist and editorialist with such publications as "Newsweek" and "The New York Times." He wrote nineteen books, beginning in 1916, and an estimated 10,000 columns. Hazlitt championed free market economics and personal freedom. Economics in One Lesson, first published in 1946, was his most influential book, but he himself considered The Foundations of Morality (1964) to be his finest. ERIKA and HENRY HOLZER are lawyers, writers and conservative activists. Her novel, An Eye for an Eye, became a motion picture (1996). The Holzers also co-wrote Fake Warriors, a guide to unmasking persons who lie about their military service records. One paragraph emphasized with pen mark in margin. Lightly creased. Overall, fine condition.