Director, stunned by the dreadful news, wrote Hayek: "By now you will have learned of the great tragedy which has befallen us. My own loss is great in any event. It is magnified by the regret that I allowed myself to be persuaded to go on with your project. This may have taken Henry Simons' thoughts away from other problems. But rejection of the project by the administration added but another to the many disappointments he received from the University."

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 750