Record of a Friendship

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[The following letter was not sent.]

Organon

Rangeley, Maine

My dear Neill:

[ 1951 ]

October 26th, 195 I

After long and strenuous thinking about you, I found out,
painfully enough, that you have not the slightest awareness of the fact
that I have discovered the life energy as a function of the cosmic energy
within man, some 12 years ago. This means opening a way for a com­
plete re-evaluation of all human judgments and values acquired over the
past 8000 years.

• I •

[Telegram]
OCTOBER 20, 1951
ALEXANDER NEILL
MANY HAPPY RETURNS. PLEASE UNDERSTAND LIFE ENERGY DISCOVERED
BY ME WILL KEEP YOU GOING FOR A LONG TIME TO COME ALSO CAUSING
MISUNDERST AN DINGS ABOUT INF ANTS BASICALLY BEING HEAPS OF COS­
MIC ENERGY.

Summerhill School
Leiston, Suffolk

My dear Reich,

• ••

October 22, 195 I

Many many thanks for your thoughtfulness in sending me a

birthday telegram. Yes, I hope that Orgone Energy will give me many

more birthdays. I feel it will now that the Box is well made. I don't feel

old most of the time. But I can't run after a bus as I used to do, yet

can dance a whole evening without tiring. On the other hand, friend, I

do nothing new, discover nothing new, introduce nothing new in my

school. S'hill will be 30 years old at Xmas, and I guess I should be

content to sit down and look back and say: I did some good work in the

past, but it is good to live even if the main work is past.