Gentlemen:

I am not one of your subscribers, nor am I a homosexual. I am an elderly married woman. But I am a friend of a number of homosexuals, and so am fairly acquainted with their unique and special interests.

Your magazine came to my attention, and I cannot fail to be impressed with its aims and objectives. From the standpoint of both a minority group, as well as the majority, they are certainly good..

From what I have gathered from your magazine, it appears that practically all angles and phases of homosexuality are being dealt with as progressively as possible. However, there is one factor which, so far as I have ascertained, has been omitted. This omission, I surmise, is due to almost complete lack of knowledge in this department. I refer generally, to the spiritual factor -but specifically, to the esoteric and occult aspects of homosexuality. Here is a field, vast, vital and utterly important to every homosexual, as well as to every member of the normal society which he or she contacts.

My personal experience in this field, over a period of many years, has been intensive and extensive. In America, unfortunately, there is still almost complete unawareness of these matters. So far as I know, no psychologist, psychiatrist, or member of the clergy of any denomination, has admitted availing himself of the available information. Abroad, the case is different. There, the knowledge of which I speak, is made excellent use of, by people qualified by education, labor and sincerest interest, to employ it.

May I offer the names of five authoritative textbooks, containing this information? They

are:

Sane Occultism, by Dion Fortune

The Problem of Purity, by Violet M. Firth The Esoteric Side of Love and Marriage, by Dion Fortune

Psychic Self-defence, by Dion Fortune The Perennial Philosophy, by Aldous Huxley

The first four are published by RIDER and Co., Publishers, Hutchinson House, Stratford Place, London W. 1, England. The last named by Harper and Brothers, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, New York. Incidentally, for the happiest results, they should be read in the order named. Any reputable and enterprising book dealer in this country can furnish copies of all these books, if they do not already have them in stock.

your most worthy effort to be of greatest possible assistance and encouragement to your readers, you cannot, in all faith, fail to offer this opportunity for this extended and specific understanding to these same readers.

I trust that you will, at some time, publish this letter, letting those who avail themselves of the information given, make their own choices and decisions.

Dear Sirs:

MRS. E. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

Having been away through the summer, I have just returned to find in my mail your letter of June 28; I'm sure the enclosed $2 will be as welcome now as it would have been in June.

I have also just received my copy of "Game of Fools" and want to congratulate both you and the author on a fine job. I hope the venture has proven to be successful, one which may encourage you to repeat it.

Keep up the good work on the magazine. MR. J. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

Hello again-

Since Game of Fools was such a good job all around, I hope you plan to go on in this field. May I make a suggestion? If you do, and I imagine you will, publish additional plays or books in the future, why not alternate between male and distaff efforts? As you've just published a male play, I think the females side should be represented next. My personal favorite among the female contributors to ONE is Jody Shotwell. I don't know if she goes in for play or novel writing, but her stories are darn good. A volume of short stories by her would hit the spot with this 'normal' critter and I believe the female minority' would be nothing short of delirium!

Dear ONE:

MISS D. HUDSON, N. H.

Just finished reading your May issue. When first glancing thru it I was somewhat disappointed by the absence of many of the usual departments. However, after close reading, I found that there was no cause for such a feeling. Jim Margin's story was fine. I think every one of us can learn a great deal from it. While some may argue "why should we hide what we feel compelled to do?" the masking of effeminate traits is essential to the ultimate acceptance of the homosexual by heterosexual society. Besides, most of those "compulsions" are really one's own desire and will-they can be controlled.

MR. F. ITHACA, NEW YORK

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