Record of a Friendship

P.S. Telfer [the osteopath] is a bit pessimistic about Akkus in England

owing to the long winter damp. I have the same doubts.

Organon

Rangeley, Maine

My dear Neill:

• • •

March 22, 1951

Please let me know whether your M.P. friend had any success.

Could you find out who the crackpot was who wrote the slander in the

New Statesman?

It has been known to us for a long time that accumulators work

much better in dry than in humid climates. The only way to get around

it is to build more layers.

How are you? Write often, please. We here went through a hell of

three months with the Oranur experiment. * It's too complicated to

describe in a letter.

Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

• ••

March 23, 1951

The M.P. who took up my case with the U.S. Embassy has got

so far as to get the consulate to send the case to headquarters in U.S.A.

But I have but little hope of success. Much depends on the Paris con­

ference. If it means peace maybe the U.S.A. will stop being fanatical

about visas, and if it means war, then, visas are a very minor

consideration.

My two weeks of nature cure made me lose ten lbs. weight. Now I

can sit in the O[rgone] A[ccumulator] with the feeling that I am not

asking it to do what it can't do. I see a danger that folks will use the

O.A. as a lazy way to get well without doing anything but sitting in it,

making no effort to help get themselves well. In short, use it as a

* A series of experiments designed to determine the effects of orgone energy

(OR) on nuclear energy (NR).