Peter Geshell was a close friend of James Briggs (Wolff’s stepson), whom he had met when the two were students at the Colorado School of Mines. Pete and his wife would become longtime students of Franklin Wolff, and in retirement built a home on Wolff's Lone Pine ranch.
Some important exchanges of letters between Franklin Wolff and Mr. Geshell are posted separately from the file here, which contains the remainder of their correspondence, as well as several letters from Pete’s wife, Ann Elizabeth. There are two letters from the 1940s, which range from a book order to Pete’s thoughts on Pathways Through to Space. The date of the letters then skip to the 1960s and 1970s, and these documents include details on business trips, thank you notes, water issues on the Lone Pine property, and in a letter dated November 11, 1973, some of Mr. Geshell’s thoughts on the statement that the “manifested world is an illusion.”
At the end of this file are some excerpts from Mr. Geshell’s autobiography. These fifteen pages recount some history of his employment in the mining industry, his first meeting of Ann Elizabeth and their marriage, his friendship with Jim Briggs, and the Geshell’s first trip to the Ashrama in August 1941, at which time the couple decided that they would like to retire in Lone Pine. (35 pages)
