John H.Herz 193 Nelg@on Road
Scarsdale, N.Y.
January 18, 1961
Professor Martin Wight
The London School of Economics
London.
Dear Professor Wight:
I just have finished reading your review of
my book, “International Politics in the Atomic Age",
in the December issue of the American Political
Science Review, and I wish to thank you very cordially
for it. TI appreciate not only the kind words you
have to say about it but perhaps even more the great
care with which you have discussed some of the under-
lying problems and issues. I have had very few
reviews which have dealt with my book with so much
sympathetic understanding and interest. |
As our common friend Kenneth Thompson just
tells me, you were here in this country last year.
I am very sorry that I did not know this. I would
greatly have appreciated a chance to make your
acquaintance and talk with you about problems of
common interest and concern. It seems to me that
the world situation is getting gloomier all the
time, and that people concerned about it should
get together and try to devise ways and means, if
any. I do hope to have an opportunity, here or in
Europe (where I usually am during summers), some-
time.
Thanking you again, and with kind regards,
sincerely yours,
(J.H. Herz)
THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
From the Dean of the
School of European Studies STANMER HOUSE
STANMER
Tel.: Brighton 56855 BRIGHTON
SUSSEX
llth April 1962.
Professor John Herz,
193 Nelson Road,
Scarsdale,
New York,
U.S.A.
\
Lean bupessur Harz
How very nice of you to send me the book in paper—back, I was
delighted to see it and hope that my small word may have helped in
bringing it about.
It was a disappointment not to see you when you were with your
family in England last summer. I was then, and still am, deeply immersed
in the interesting problems of getting this new University started,
Yours umcerely
Min Wi
John H, Herz 193 Nelson Road
Searsdale N.Y, \
September 27, 1962
Professor Martin Wight
Dean, School of European Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton, Sussex,
Dear Professor Wight:
I have taken the liberty of giving your name
as one of my references in an application for a
research grant fwom the Rockefeller Foundation
which I recently submitted to the Foundation,
Knowing of your interest in my previous studies
I have thought that your opinion on my project would
be of great value to the Foundation, and I should
greatly appreciate your giving it. I hope that
this does not prove to be much of a bother.
I hear from time to time about your recent
activities as a university-builder; guess it
must be @ most provocative and gratifying task.
I wish you the best of success.
With kind regards,
your plat Ly,
(John H, Herz)
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX,
Stanmer House,
ry > 1 Be
prign von 9
Sussex.
Sth October 1962.
Professor J.H. Herz,
193 Nelson Road,
Scarsdale,
New York,
@ Nei Rapessor Roce,
Your welcome letter comes only a day or two after I have written
an enthusiastic reply to the enquiry from Gerald Freund on behalf of
the Rockefeller Foundation about your project. It was good of you to
give my name as a reference, but as I said to Freund I felt it was
something of an impertinence for me to give an opinion of your plans.
Your project excites me immensely. I really think that you are one
of the few people who is pushing forward the boundaries of thought on
these matters,
University building, as you guess, is an exciting but sometimes
frustrating activity. J wish I had more time for my own "Power Politics",
but it grinds on slowly. My great book on international theory (for which
Rockefeller gave me a grant a couple of years ago) may well have to be
discarded because you will have said it all first! I say this half
seriously.
Yours Suncerely
Nanda boro
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