looking after and I am strict with her about the Akku. I have it in my
little office and wonder if it would be good to have it in the bedroom so
that Ena would get an O.-laden atmosphere. You said once not to have
it in the bedroom. Warum nicht [why not]? What is the objection to
having a bedroom full of orgones?
So Peter grows? It will be fun to see him again. IF I get lectures, IF
we get a passage, IF the British Govt. allows us to travel.
- I •
Forest Hills, New York
February 20, 1948
My dear Neill:
Many thanks for your letter of February 12th. I saw
Constance on Wednesday. She has changed quite a bit.
The Press will send you some Cancer Biopathys. But please, do not
try to make any propaganda for it. If the book is good, then it will
make its way, and if it is not, then let it die. I am afraid you are still
underestimating the recognition I enjoy in this world. But I have to
confess that it is a quite different type of recognition, a noiseless one,
so to say.
We shall be very glad to have you at Orgonon again this summer
with Ena and the child. But I have to sell the cabin on the lake, be
cause I need the money to put up a building on the Hill. We shall find
a nice place for you to live in at Orgonon itself if it can be arranged. By
the way, I stopped drinking whiskey.
The Little Man will be printed and distributed, after all. If I had
listened to what people told me about the Sexual Revolution and
Character Analysis in 1928, these books would never have been pub
lished. It took them 20 years, it is true, to break through, but they
did break through. The same is true for the Little Man. I had a well
known artist· make some drawings for it. They are very good and you
will enjoy them. When is your book coming?
•••- William Steig.