a piece of material and send it to the typist. (c) She types it to the correct page size on our standard IBM typewriter and returns it to me. (d) I then put it in files according to the type of materials, such as stories, histories, articles, etc. (e) Finally when it comes time to make up an issue I go through and try to pick out an assorment of types of material to provide a balanced issue. This has to be correl- ated also as to length, interest, etc. (f) Pictures are then sent to the printer, special screen prints sent back which I arrange and paste up. (g) All pages are then numbered, the table of contents written up and the whole bit sent to the printer. Of course, somewhere in the meantime I must myself assemble Ed. Emanations, Virgin Views, the ads, and filler material used at the end of stories. Thus with all this it may be that material will lay in the "to be Edited" file for some time or in the typed but as yet unused files still longer. So please understand my problems and don't be annoyed.

VI.

When

DISCONTINUANCE OF THE CLIPSHEET: In my younger days I used to collect clippings of anything having to do with impersonation whether it was criminal, homosexual (as at drag balls), transsexual (as with Christine) or on rare occasions transvestic. I did this be- cause it enabled me to live out some of my desires vicariously. I started TVia, and knowing that many others had done as I had and collected clippings I decided to start a clipping service in which we could all see the clippings if they were sent in and copied. Thus began the Clipsheet. However, I hadn't reckoned on the pacifying and soothing effects of TRANSVESTIA. I am very complimented that

it has had such effects, but they have spelled the death knell of the Clipsheet. What I mean is that as readers became aware that they were not alone, got out of the locked room, began to understand and accept themselves and generally got the pressures under control the need for vicarious experience lessened. Thus the need for the Clip- sheet lessened too. Less material was sent in and fewer subscribed to it. Thus it's reduced importance was a testimonial to the increased importance of TRANSVESTIA itself. I'm glad that it is so. So we will discontinue the Clipsheet. I am not yet sure whether there will be one more issue or not, depends on several things not clear at this writing. For one thing, it depends on the rate at which satisfactory stories are received (See next section). Those who have paid for any Clipsheets in advance will be credited proportionally toward the new stories. Since they will be $1.50 each there will be a credit adjust- ment one way or the other to come out even according to the follow- ing:

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