Gentlemen:

I have just finished reading a book which I feel would be of interest to our people, though only a page or two, out of more than four hundred, is about homosexuality; but the author is a man of such breadth and nobleness of mind that his reflections on world affairs, politics, and religion are richly rewarding reading for us whose problems touch upon many of these

areas.

The book is "My Dear Timothy," an autobiographical letter to his grandson, by Victor Gollancz, wellknown British publisher and humani tarian. I would like to quote two of his remarks on homosexuality:-

“Condemnation of people for the way they are made, and in which they must accordingly express them selves, is both contemptible and blasphemous."

I wonder whether homosexual love may not sometimes be purer (purer in heart) than average heterosexual love; and whether to give everything and demand nothing, after the fashion of chivalry, may not more commonly be the mark of it."

These are generous words, indeed, from a heterosexual; let us try to emulate his magnanimity; let us try to deserve it.

Dear ONE:

MR. A.

DETROIT, MICH.

some psychiatrists have a little piece of paper saying, "John Doe attended school." I believe this is necessary because how would we know. They try to make us believe that homosexual people have a very unusual mental development. One part of the brain is capable of grasping the greatest of all thoughts but the other part is so infantile it can't grasp even the simplest fundamental thought. I wonder why such odd people as we are don't have a skull arrangement, sort of expanded on one side and bashed in on the other. Some day maybe Eve Elloree will draw a picture with this type of skull. A doctor could be standing beside him with a hammer explaining how he could hammer in the overdeveloped part

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and it would bulge out where it was bashed in. That might have a lot of humor. Then again maybe we would get the medical men mad. How very difficult, trying to keep everybody in good humor!

Dear ONE;

MISS J.

KANSAS CITY, MO.

At Cherry Grove (Fire Island), this last weekend, I had the fun of inventing a new cocktail, made the same as a "Pink Lady," but substituting vodka for gin, and called a "Lesbia. (She's still a lady, but tantalizingly different.)

The ingredients, incidentally, require rebalancing, to taste. If, after testing the recipe, you like it, why not print it in ONE?

Hi, Friends:

"Greta" N.Y.C.

Thanks for 2nd Issue of ONE Confidential. I liked the human interest letters most, and hope you can add some more next issue. That is an important service and I hope you have found someone who can find time to answer them.

The August-September issue is very good, especially the fine tribute to Kinsey.

Enclosed is a small contribution to the Legal Fund or other pressing needs.

Hope you add more pages of letters in issues of ONE, too, for I bet everyone reads those.

Gentlemen:

MR. B.

SAN FRANCISCO

"The Winner" by Marlin Prentiss is one of the best pieces of fiction you have had yet. I hope you will have many more by this author.

MR. R. YAKIMA, WASH.

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