Roger and Patricia Olds were siblings who visited the Wolffs at their Lone Pine ranch. Roger lived in Chicago, and Patricia, who had a Masters in Reading Education, was an elementary teacher in Waltham, Mass. before she became a marketing specialist for Hewlett Packard. Eventually she took the position of librarian at the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers in New York City. Patricia was a friend of John Lilly, and as he recounts in his introduction to the Julian Press edition of Pathways Through to Space, it was she who originally introduced Mr. Lilly to this work. As one learns from a letter here, it was Patricia’s mother who had originally recommended Pathways to her!
Their correspondence begins with a postcard sent by Roger from a Benedictine monastery in Spain—he relates that both he and Patricia are seeking some seclusion (he at the monastery, she at a nearby island). Next is a postcard from Tehran, where Roger states he is now travelling alone. The remainder of the letters in the file are from, or to, Patricia, and one includes an article that Patricia thought the Wolffs would find interesting (“Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap” by Clare W. Graves). (33 pages)
