up there in the course of the next few years. Even money seems to
loom on the horizon.
I still want you to have the accumulator built. You simply have to.
It will give you strength and will build up your blood, and you will
enjoy it.
- I •
Forest Hills, New York
May 14, 1943
My dear Neill:
I am enclosing a preliminary draft of our [by]-laws [for
incorporation of the Orgone Institute in the United States]. You know
that I hate such formalities as much as you do, but the more the
influence of the Institute grows-and it does grow-the more necessary
are provisions to safeguard its existence and functioning against the
diverse influences of the emotional pestilence.
I want you to know that the orgone research has cost me $24,0 00
out of my own earnings since 1939. My wife and I are living on about
$200 a month, i.e., much less than a worker in a war factory receives.
This is only to explain the formula contained in the by-laws. It means
only that I would get back the money which I have put in. The discovery
of the orgone has been donated to the International Institute.
The students of our Institute here are reading your books with the
utmost interest and benefit. Your name has spread very far in educational
circles.
Our work is continuing unhampered and with some recognition in
many parts of the U.S. as well as in South America and Palestine. When
the big crash will come again I don't know; but this time I have decided
not to keep quiet, as in Oslo, but to fight back with all our knowledge
and influence.
I would be glad to receive a letter from you as soon as possible about
everything worth knowing. My best wishes to you and all friends over
there, and for a quick finish to this chaos.
. I.