Director believed the failed project added to Simons’s disappointments

Evidence

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, 750

Categorization

• QUESTION: Director explicitly speculates the project failure may have contributed to Simons’s suicide — did any later account confirm or refute this?
• XREF: connects to: Henry Simons’s suicide nearly derailed Hayek’s Chicago institute plan — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 749