[ 1948 ]
Summerhill School
Leiston, SuffolkMy dear Reich,214February 24, 1948I wish I could grasp what your attitude to publicity really is. I
see that you don't want me to try to interest any scientist in the work.
Good. I got that. But in my book I've given a list of your books and
where they can be got in London. Is that allowed or isn't it? Let me
know so that I can cut it out of the proofs if you want me to. You say:
Let them come to us, not the other way round, but still you do send
your books out to be reviewed by scientific journals.
Re our trip to U.S.A. nothing is settled yet. I'm sure we can fix up
about living when we come, but I am alarmed about your no longer
drinking whiskey, for with my non-smoking and your non-drinking
that talk in your cabin from 4 p.m. onwards is going to be a bit dull.
The Little Man. I can't make up my mind about it... I advised
waiting publication because I thought that if the State was against you
owing to the Brady article, the Little Man might play into their hands,
for they might cry: "See, this man is mad; he thinks we are little men
and implies that he is a big man. The Brady woman was right, so let us
crush this man."
You say I still underestimate your recognition. I possibly do because
you are always alarming me about all the enemies and their work,
giving me the impression that the chief ones who "recognize" you are
the FBI, the Food & Drug Dept, etc. You tell me more about your
enemies than your friends, and in summer actually gave me concern
that the Ku Klux Klan or hired gangsters might invade your Orgonon.
My book* is being printed but it may take a year to get it published.
Already I want to change what I wrote, and in a year's time it will be
painful to me to look at it.
Had a good lecture on "Sex and the Adolescent" last week. Over
200 people were turned away. Haire in conversation at his house said
that you haven't given proof that cancer has any connection with sex
repression.
Ena and I find that the chief result of the Akku in cases of grippe is
* Neill sent Reich a copy of The Problem Family in manuscript. In his diary,
Reich comments: "A very good book written by a child 64 years old; honest;
playful; frank; full of love for children."