Announcement

I have something of sufficient importance to tell you that I want to do so separately and not in the Editorial Emanations section.

I have what I think is very good news. I have made arrangements with Sherbourne Press to publish the Wives book. In fact it is already at the lino- typers and books are promised for delivery in August. Their price will probably be $3.00 as before. The book will be a soft cover book but one of the better type and slightly bigger kind- about the size of Reader's Digest and well put together. The revised edition is considerably bigger than before and if Chevalier had published it, it would have had to be $4 so this is an advantage.

But the important thing about it is that they will print 10,000 where I would have printed 500 or 1,000. With their merchandising and distributing arrangements they will get it noticed by and into a lot of libraries and better type book stores across the country which will mean that many more of our sisters will find it than ever could have otherwise. Moreover, with the title as it was before "The Trans- vestite and his Wife... it will take the homosexual taint away from it and it may get read by a lot of people who would otherwise pass it by as a gay type book. Personally I am very pleased at the prospect. Reference is made in several locations in the book to TRANSVESTIA and Chevalier Publications with the address given so we should have an influx of new friends this fall.

Many have sent in money for the Wives book and it has been returned saying that its appearance

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