Record of a Friendship

Forest Hills, New York April 5, 1948 My dear Neill: I just received your letter of March 30th. I understand your depression very ...

although I won't enjoy sitting in your cabin drinking Canadian rye while you drink orange juice! You always complain that I unde ...

[ 1948 ] Summerhill School Leiston, Suffolk My dear Reich, (^224) May I, 1948 I am not pleased with the way our relationship is ...

or twelve years my work had developed quite a bit, with a score of im­ portant medical practitioners around and being talked abo ...

will have enough seminars and lectures to cover expenses in connection with your travelling. Summerhill School Leiston, Suffolk ...

my new book ... so that if the worst does happen, it won't be lost to humanity! But I'm not quite so pessimistic as I sound. We ...

hits them before they hit you, so to say. I wish it could have a wide circulation in England. Good woick, wise guy! The only thi ...

My love to the obsetvatory. Send me a picture of the finished building, that is if friend Collins· isn't too old by the time the ...

orgone energy and orgone institute, is closely connected with the general human evasiveness in these questions. We are slowly pr ...

I am also sending you a watercolour picture I made specially for you. It isn't art, for I am no artist, but it splashes color ab ...

Times Mag. tells me they had a lot of letters about my article. One schoolboy wrote asking for 50 copies "so that I can send a c ...

a desert with no real active, eager fighting helpers around. There is some basic hesitancy or reluctance to stand up clearly and ...

up, owing to the exciting life here, is a problem next day, whining, ill-tempered ... and in her case there is no question of an ...

losigkeit [lack of intercourse] and that is very true. No, Neill, I am afraid there is no escape from the one conclusion that th ...

I say again that our gangster group of boys, 8 to I2 or so, is hateful and destructive if late to bed. I must watch to see if th ...

Summerhill School Leiston, Suffolk Dear /lse, 1949 January I, 1949 Zoe tiresome at bedtime, keeps getting up. Ena suggests owing ...

disturbances in children as the cause of trouble are to the incidental lack of sleep as all the water in all the oceans of the e ...

I am much worried about money. I have my own private account in the bank and the school has its own. Lately there has been a los ...

grown-up human being and the newborn little baby-I repeat, the only and sole difference-is that the little kitten and the newbor ...

me the only question is: Can this blocked kid ever catch up with life? And that is what has resulted from your work-that I can't ...