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and the Femme Mirror. So if you don't get a current number just when you would like to be reading something, for heavens sake order an old one to fill in with. Help yourself and help me too.

2) About the 1st of February or as soon as I can get to it I'm going to take a drastic step in trying to solve the problem I have been talking about. I am going to start at one end of my desk and editorial table and push a large part of what is on it off into the waste basket. Primarily I am referring to letters. I am going to make a desperate attempt to keep current on letters owed from sometime back. I'd like to be able to answer all letters and chat with everybody but since this is impossible and actually would threaten the continuation of the magazine if I tried, I have decided to wipe the slate clean and start all over again. SO if you have a letter in my file awaiting a reply please write and ask the question again so that it will be in the current pile and I can handle it. This is a desperate and inconvenient but necessary step.

3) Now as to letters themselves. I like to read your letters and to learn about your lives and problems and I do read them, but these parts that you require an answer to are simply going to have to be systemitized a bit. Some kinds of problems require elaboration and discussion, but if it is at all possible to so phrase your questions that they can be answered yes or no or by checking off one of several possibilities, please do so. Please further write them on a postcard if they are the kind that can go in the open mail or on a separate sheet of paper if they can't. Please stamp the card and include a stamped envelope with the question sheet. Such a precedure will enable me to take care of the needs of more people faster and your cooperation is sincerely solicited.

when you

Lots of you refer to "the Chevalier 'Staff' " write. You must realize that the "staff" consists of Mary and Virginia and that Mary mostly handles only the recording of orders and preparing them for mailing. Questions involving orders will get a note from her but that is her area. She only works with me 2 days a week. Everything else, opening and reading the mail; answering questions where necessary or giving counsel; reading and editing manuscripts; organizing the magazine, and getting it to and from the compositor first and the printer second; handling all FPE mail that comes thru for

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