Letters, [1932] July 16 and [July 16?], [n.p.], to [Samuel Johnson] Woolf, [New York?].

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Letters, [1932] July 16 and [July 16?], [n.p.], to [Samuel Johnson] Woolf, [New York?].

Concern his answers to questions to be used in an article Woolf was writing (published in New York Times, July 24, 1932), including the difference between communism and socialism, his actions if elected President, a person's choice of vocation, the existence of private property, and the future of great fortunes under socialism.

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