Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk
My dear Reich,
May 26 , 19 50Your friendly advice not to lecture in August touches me, but,
alas, I shall be completely under the dollar compulsion.
Ena and Zoe will have to return in late Sept to open the school, but I
don't want to stay as long as last time, for Summerhill affairs, staff and
finances, are so difficult that I can't leave Ena to have all the responsi
bility alone. I'd like to sail in October not November. We'll have long
talks about the future, a most worrying business.
I think I spoiled my Accumulator by adding layers of steel wool and
asbestos wool. I ordered rock wool and the manufacturers wrote they
were sending asbestos wool which was called rock wool in England.
But I have a nasty fe eling that asbestos wool absorbs moisture. Ena says
she doesn't feel anything in the Box now. And she doesn't look well. I
hope the trip will restore her a lot.
Orgonon
Rangeley, Maine
My dear Neill:
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June 5, 1950I rejoice in your having found out that the accumulator is not
just a simple box, but a scientific instrument. You are quite right,
material that absorbs humidity will spoil the functioning of the
accumulator.
We shall see about Ena's troubles here at Orgonon.
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Forest Hills, New York
June 29, 1950
My dear Neill:
I just had a letter from Complex and from Paul Goodman to
you. I suggest you forget Goodman. He is one of those intellectuals who
does everything only in the form of words. What he suggests in his
letter, for example, the derivation of social requirements from the
needs, like separate rooms for young couples, has been done repeatedly