May 24, 1971

Dear "Stella,"

We received your letter today and I have a few things I'd like to say to people like yourself. You are sick and are in very bad need of profession- al help. As you don't know, I am a nurse and we put people like you in an insane asylum or on the Psycho ward in the hospital. I know my husband must have answered that ad by the reference to your letter but no letter from you or your B+ wife could convince me what you're doing is nor- mal. You'd better seek help from a Professional Doctor or find an old fashioned altar and pray to God for his saving power to save you from a Devil's Hell. That would be the best fullfillment you or your "sisters" could ever get. I hope and pray if you ever "dress" again there will be a Policeman close by to nab you and “undress" you in front of so many people it will make you feel as low as an animal. There are too many or- ganizations like this to devour our citizens and I'd like to see all of them cleared away.

No, your wife had better not write to me for what you do is your bus- iness and I am a F― or Z- wife and I won't ever believe anything could convince me to believe what you're doing is right. If my husband desires this kind of life he has my blessing with a divorce. I wouldn't want to expose our daughter to anything so disgusting.

I am Mrs.

Sincerely,

Sincerely, Louella (and I am a female, not Tom, Dick or Harry)

Dear Mrs.

The letter you recently wrote to "Stella" in Florida as a result of her answering a letter of your husband's, has been sent on to me as the pub- lisher of the magazine and the fountainhead of the effort to help trans- vestites to understand themselves and their wives and parents to under- stand them.

Your letter was pretty “hot” if you know what I mean and you vented a lot of unwarranted steam and accusation at Stealla. Your reaction was, unfortunately, not unlike what one would expect from a wife suddenly discovering something that she didn't understand and didn't like. How- ever, we always hate that which we don't understand so your reaction