Record of a Friendship

[ 1949 ]

Orgonon

Rangeley , Maine

My dear Neill:

260

October 2 I, 1949

I received the number of the Journal of Sex Education * which

contains the slander, together with your reply. I wondered why you did

not say point blank that you are using an orgone accumulator for your­

self and your family with some benefit.

Would you kindly try to find out the name, profession and back­

ground of competence of this fellow who is, to all appearances, either

a pervert or a delegate of the C.P.

Summerhill School

Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

• • •

October 28, 1949

You ask why I didn't mention our own use of the Accu in my
reply to that interview. Simply because such a reply would cut no ice,
and would be attributed to blind faith. Whereas your doctors can give
definite seeable results ... tumours lessening or disappearing. But I
wouldn't have done so for myself [i.e., written a reply to the bad
review], for, as you know, we differ about fighting back, and I have
seldom if ever replied to a bad review of my books. I regret that you
do so much of this-to me-negative fighting; it takes you away from
genuine work, and the papers and journals have always the last word.
I've always ignored my enemies, and I don't think they ever did me any
real harm. But this will take up an evening in O[rgonon] next summer,
this argument. The J .H.H.'st are unbedeutend [insignificant]. Flies
annoy a cow but they don't seem to hamper her milk supply.
Sure, put me down for a talk on education next conference. I am
hoping that education will come more forward than it did last summer
and that the medical and scientific men will share the talks with the
self-reguln. guys.
Life goes on here as strenuously as usual. We sit in the Accu daily,

* Edited by Norman Haire.

t The author whose review had so angered Reich.