Record of a Friendship

(Ben Green) #1

Washington * did not tum up for work as scheduled, the motors dis­
appeared together with Washington in a most mysterious fashion-a
much too long and complicated story to be told in a letter. The observa­
tory has been completed with the last few touches still to be done. (A
beauty ... )
A nurse from the New York Memorial hospital for cancer turned up
at Simeon Tropp's office with a lump in her breast scheduled for opera­
tion and was freed of the tumor within a few days.
Peter went to public school here in Rangeley on Sept. 6th for the
first time and loved it.
Preparations are being made for the convention in 1950.
Dr. Raphaelt has fallen in love with this region and with Orgonon
and has conceived the plan of a hospital at Orgonon (I had made the
plans for it in 1943 already). Several doctors want to transfer their
lives here.
A new worry of where to get 200,000 dollars arose. Selling of
Christmas trees and bringing to market of accumulators is contemplated.
I wrote my first paper on orgonometric equations.
We hate to go back to N.Y. and would like to stay here. But Tropp
and Willie:!: told me that I must go back to N.Y. because I am still
needed badly since I am "so handy."
This is not all. Now, how have you been and Zoe and Ena? Why did
you not write lately? You are not cross for some reason, are you?
Would you like to review Anna Freud's new papers in the book on
education? Thanks for your nice little article. It will be published in the
Bulletin.


Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk


My dear Reich,


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September 15, 1949

Your letter today. I wrote you weeks ago and wondered why I
wasn't hearing from you. Your news of Bill surprises me. Am I


  • Bill Washington, a mathematician who was working for Reich.
    t Chester M. Raphael, M.D., student of Reich's and medical orgonomist.



  • James W. Willie, psychiatrist and student of Reich's.

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