Dear Virginia,
Enclosed is Money Order for one Clip Sheet and the next TVia if it ever comes out. The last one was not up to the old ones by a long way. The true history was good, but the fiction punk and impossible. Also too bad you had to fill in space by the usual letters laying it on with a trowel. How long since you have printed one that disagreed with you?
As you don't want any stories from me (I seem to be cast out into outer darkness for good) I am sending what I do finish to Conny, and at times getting quite good ones in return. But while I usually agree with Susanna whose articles are about the best thing in TVia now. If I get enough ambition, which is lacking these days, I would like to write my ideas on the subject and hope to have them in print.
I certainly do not want any picture TVia while you are gadding around too much at the expense of FPE and doubt if many do want it. Why not figure out some scheme to prepare as much as you can of your own, include a story, as you must have some possibly good, have Susanna as usual and leave it in some shape that Sheila, Fran etc. could finish it ready for the printer. The idea is not impossible.
As far as I can make out, and my NYC connections are good, there is no chance of anyone around there starting a TV magazine, not even the TV bookstore they talked about. So it is very necessary to keep TVia going. The magazine probably does more good getting TV's in touch even though there is about no more "Contact" than your exhibitions on TV and radio. No doubt you get a flood of letters from lonely TV's but disgust so many "normal" people, I doubt if the good you do balances it.
Sincerely,
"A sister"
Ed. Note: This letter is not a current one it got mislaid and just surfaced. I print it both because of the challenge to print something that is not complimentary but also to illustrate that an Editor's life like Gilbert and Sullivan policeman's "is not a happy one." That is, even when you win with one reader you lose with another. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. There are not too many negative letters in TVia for the very simple reason that I don't get many. That doesn't mean that the mag is perfect but just that those who don't like it just
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