Editor's Note: The following four letters are related. First is Stella's letter to Mary telling of her and her wife's understanding. After joining FPE, Stella answered a CONTACT ad in a recent issue. The advertiser's wife evidently intercepted it and wrote the third letter to Stella about it. The fourth is the letter I, in turn, wrote to this wife. I print all four as a sort of human interest correspondence. It might prove useful to someone as well as to show the scope of my efforts for FPs.

Dear Mary,

The four copies of TVia were at my P.O. Box this morning. I devoured every word, and read all the issues today. My wife and I discussed some of the articles, and really had an enjoyable day.

There could be no dressing up today, as it is Sunday, and my 16-year old daughter is home, all day.

I, more than ever, want to join FPE, and would appreciate your sending an application at once. I know that FPE is going to be very important in my life, as my wife has had suspicions about me for years, but it is very recent since I have told her the whole story.

Her first reactions were of contempt and non-understanding. She couldn't even bear the thought of her virile husband as a woman. Also she was afraid that if I was a TV, I had to be a HS also. I tried to explain to her that her fears were unfounded. However, I must admit, that I my- self did not fully understand my feelings. I had been a TV for as long as I could remember. I first discovered it when I was 12 years old. I knew I wasn't gay, and had no tendencies towards the HS. In fact I feared them. But I also associated TV's with HS. So it was very difficult to explain to her something I didn't fully understand myself.

Then a wonderful thing happened. I saw the book, "The TV and His Wife," advertised by a mail order book firm. This was four months ago. I read the book in one day. It took the weight of the world off my shoul- ders. To understand what I was completely; to know that I was not alone; and to know there was a magazine "TVia" and an organization “FPE,” where other TV's get together and their wives, seemed like a dream

come true.

My darling wife read the book as soon as I finished it. What a change it made in her. But this can be understood, because of her previous hang-