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Sun. Jan 13/57 Dear May, Many thanks for letter & postcard & for the opportunity to read your admirably written "tract" on Socialism & the home. The last must have required a huge amount of work in order to cover the subject so adequately. I'm returning it & the leaflet by that turncoat Spargo. How useful he could have been had he held fast! I'm wondering what disposition you will ultimately make of what must be a remarkable collection of leftist material both old & recent perhaps you will welcome a sugges- tion. I am, as opp. offers, sending mine to the Social Science Institute, Harborside, Maine - i.e. to Scott & Helen Nearing. They incorporated the Inst. in order to transfer what they have to it. They paid me the compli- ment of inviting me to be one of their corporation & board of directors. Just now as you doubtless know, S. & H. are in Japan on their way around the world! They plan to visit Hong Kong, Singapore, Siam, Burma, Indonesia, India (at some length - Helen once spent a year there & I believe