your school. I would suggest that we discuss this problem at our next
meeting.
My best wishes.- I •
Summerhill School
F estiniog, North Wales
November 18, 1943
My dear Reich,
Your double letter most interesting, especially the Einstein
one. I can't understand that incident. As you know, the psychologists are
divided into two lots ... Lot A considers you a genius, Lot B a madman.
If Einstein thought that your discoveries were sound and new, no talk
by an enemy would affect him. So that apparently he rejected your
whole concept of life and science .. OR FEARED IT.
Re journals etc. sent to me. You complain of my attempts to have you
appreciated here, but what was I to do when Wolfe kept sending me
journals and books? Sell them? I tried, but no bookseller would take
them. Lewis, the biggest medical booksellers, took a few books and
sold about seven. I had no. idea what you wanted of me. True,
Constance's lending library was good and still is good. But from this'
desk I see about two dozen No. I Journals on a shelf, and I still don't
see what I was supposed to do with them if not to send them to likely
people who might learn frot? them. One mother of a child here is in a
publishing office. She borrowed a book to read and showed it to her
firm. They asked a well-known non-Freudian analyst to read it. I got
his report, but am forbidden to rrien�ion his name. He wrote:
"The last 100 pages is a most valuable 'account of R's new thera
peutic technique which is based on his recognition of nerVous dis
order. I found this unique and a most valuable contribution to our
knowledge and I regard it as a most important statement with which
I am in full agreement, from the �tandpoint of my own theory and
practice which I have arrived at, of course, independently. If the
whole book were as sound and constructive as the last 100 pages I
would unhesitatingly recommend its publication here."He then gives quotations.