Thoughtful TLS, two onionskin pages, 8 x 11, illustrated personal letterhead, May 31, 1966. Letter comforting an ill admirer. In part: “You either have a religion or you should have one. If you are not Protestant, Catholic or Jewish, you should subscribe to the faith that is all around you in the Book of Nature…God is all around us. His manifestations are everywhere…We have the rhythm of nature. We have inhaling and exhaling…day and night…birth and death. We can’t fully understand these things because our finite minds are too small in power to encompass even the meaning of the stars which glow reassuringly in the heavens to remind us of the divine architecture…you will find many signs that have been given you to show the omnipotence of the deity. The stars at night are a sign so simple that anyone can see them, yet so complex that no one can comprehend them.” In fine condition, with mild toning to the second page and a few chips to the left edge of both. An unusually deep and thought provoking letter in which the lawyer-turned-writer confronts man’s mortality. RRAuction COA.
