 On 26 June the agents returned to supervise the destruction of the promotional material , including 251 copies of Reich 's books . The American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release criticizing the book burning , although coverage of the release was poor , and Reich ended up asking them not to help because he was annoyed that they had failed to criticize the destruction of the accumulators . In England A.S. Neill and the poet Herbert Read signed a letter of protest , but it was never published . On 23 July the remaining accumulators in New York were destroyed by S. A. Collins and Sons , who had built them . 
