Record of a Friendship

just dismiss the whole thing as pseudo-science. I want to know how
science reacts to you in U.S.A.
Your observations on your son are most interesting. So far, no one
has solved the problem of why kids cry so much up to 3 years old. I
look forward to a book Babies, by W.R. Much needed. So far the only
good one I know is Homer Lane's Talks to Parents and Teachers, 1925.
He was an American and my first analyst. America never discovered him.
I have just come back from a branch S'hill I founded in Essex,· and
when I return to Leiston I think of taking a house halfway between the
two schools and having a bit of private life in my oid age. Perhaps have
a family, although it is a bit late at 60 perhaps.
Thanks for the photos of mother and child. I look forward to meeting
them both.

Orgonon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill:

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September 1 I, 19 44

I have just received your letter of August 30th. It is too bad

that you cannot provide the metal, and that I am unable at present to

send you one of our accumulators. But I promise you to keep three

accumulators-one for grown-ups, one for 6--10 year-old children, and

one "shooter" for healing wounds-in readiness, to be sent off to you

as soon as it is possible.

You ask about the reaction of science in the U.S.A. It is far better

than in Europe; though they are still keeping silent, I know that they

listen very attentively to what we have to say. Some, of course, are very

fiendish, but other groups are expressing their admiration. A palpable

indication was given when I was asked to join, together with my

laboratories, the register of "American Men of Science" which registers

only experimental natural science. But I would suggest that we do not

wait for any approval, but simply go on with our work. Recently, I was

informed by a medical doctor in Palestine that he has built an accumu­

lator and has achieved already some very amazing results on sick people.

• Named "Kingsmuir," it was in the charge of Lucy Francis, who had been the
  nursery-school teacher at Summerhill. Elsewhere, Neill refers to her as "my infant
  mistress."