Dear Brother:

Herewith my answer to those few pessimists whose letters I read once in a while. in our ONE magazine. And for whatever reason the publication of ONE should ever be discontinued, I do NOT wish a refund. Enclosed $60.00 check for twenty years of ONE. Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sir:

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I would like to have a list of any authors. such as James Barr who have written books on the homosexual theme lately.

Jeffersonville, Ind.

To name a few: Charles Jackson, Harrison Dowd, Blair Niles, Edgar Box, Douglas Sanderson, Fritz Peters, Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood.

Dear Friends:

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Put me down for two copies each of the first two issues of ONE when you have them reprinted. Also send me an additional copy of the issue of ONE that contained the review of the article in MR. about communists being homosexuals.

Gentlemen:

Los Gatos, Calif.

Our foundation is incorporated for the help of those who by reason of psychosexual maladjustment "are in trouble with themselves, the law or society." For that reason, we are naturally interested in seeing what is being done by those who are working in the field.

I should be glad to know the cost of subscription to your periodical, so that I can place the possibility of subscribing thereto before our Board at its next meeting.

The George Henry Foundation, Inc. New York, N. Y.

Dear Sirs (or Ma'ams, as the case may be): So you WEREN'T. grateful! Did you have to smear this ungratefulness across the front cover? From a strictly business point of view this is bad publicity for you and bad psychology for your readers. A positive approach, in my estimation, would have been better. Something like: "Look! A gain has been made, small to be sure, compared to the crimes against unjustly imprisoned homosexuals, but still a very important gain: the right to read and subscribe without fear!"

Dear Friends:

S Angeles, Calif.

You are indeed to be congratulated on your recent victory with the Post Office Department. Three cheers for all your good work; and for OUR side!

Kansas City, Mo..

Dear, dear gentlemen, One and all:

I've been reading you since April and I'm happy to see you're growing better with each. issue. Now that I'm back to writing, I thought you might like a story such as the one enclosed. If you can use it, count it as a contribution from one who feels ONE is doing a very good, as well as a very necessary job. James Barr

Dear Sirs:

New York, N. Y.

It is not all of us who are privileged to participate in significant endeavors.

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Bishop, Calif.

EXCERPT FROM A REPLY TO A LETTER IN WHICH A FRIEND ASKED FOR A DONATION TO ONE:

I'm not sending you a check to help support the magazine you wrote about simplyand I hope I won't offend you by being quite frank about it because I can't see what possible need there is for such a magazine or how it could possibly do any good. I haven't seen it, to be sure, and so have no real right to form any judgment about it; but I can imagine the kind of articles that will appear in it: a certain percentage of them will drag in various tag ends of Plato and infer, without being able actually to say so, that he advocated homosexuality as an institution; others will point to great artists, writers, and musicians of the past who are known to have been homosexual, and the inference will be: "See! These men were great because they were homosexual!" Others will refer to the necessary clinical impartiality and tolerance of the great psychologists, and the inference will be that a scientific necessity should be transformed into the everyday attitude of the man in the street. It will be a beating of the drum with no one around to hear: certainly such a magazine will never acquire any circulation, except as a bit of curiosa, among the great heterosexual majority. It will be a magazine for homosexuals, read by them and catering to them, and as such it can do little to contribute to any broadscale increase in the understanding of the problem as it exists in our society. It seems to me that the desire to understand and the effort to understand must come from and be made by the other side. But we must also be sure that we ourselves understand ourselves: we must be quite certain what aspects of homosexuality we can accept, and what aspects we must reject with the rest of mankind. For the difficult fact is that homosexuality in all of its manifestations cannot be accepted by anyone in foto, even a homosexual.

P.H.D.

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