I am also sending you a watercolour picture I made specially for you.
It isn't art, for I am no artist, but it splashes color about, and I enjoy
doing that. Lots of Orgone blue in it too!
Have been working hard since I returned, finding satisfaction in dis
covering the tensions of kids. Worst case a boy of 4 who can't speak. He
screams when frustrated by a closed door. Parents beat him for shitting
etc. A bad case that may be beyond my skill, but I am attacking his
steel tensions with some success I believe.
I am using the box for a girl of eleven who is anaemic, and one of my
staff (a Communist woman!) sits in it daily for she is also anaemic!
Another staff woman with chilblains used the funnel * twice and all
pain went.
I've forgotten Bourbon and Chesterfields, but my resolution to stop
smoking broke down even at the awful price fags are here. Part of me
is still over there with you both, in dear old Orgonon and pleasant
(^99) -o (^6) .t
Haven't heard a word from U.S.A. since I came home. Yes, a few
letters sent to Times about my article,t all of them favourable.
I took the liberty of sending a Little Man to Sir Stanley Unwin of
Allen & Unwin, one of the best publishers in London. If he wants to
publish it I advise you to agree.
I keep damning the ugly fact that we are 3000 miles apart.
Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear lise,
- I •
December 5, 1948Tut, tut; the moment I leave you you get into trouble again.
I am worried about Reich having to devote all his energy to pest people, §
while I wait here impatiently for my orgone motor to make my light.
Damn 'em all.
- The small, hand-held accumulator that Reich sent to Neill.
t Reich's home in Forest Hills: 99-(>6 69th A venue.
t "Love-Discipline, Yes---Hate-Discipline, No," The New York Times Magazine,
November 7, 1948.
§ That is, the enemies of Reich's work; in this case primarily the agents of the
Food and Drug Administration.