was not surprising. I take the liberty of writing this to you in the hope that you will make the effort necessary to understand.

In your letter you said that "if that's the kind of life my husband de- sires then he has my blessings with a divorce." This would seem to in- dicate that you were not previously aware of this subject and thus could not know much about it. You also mentioned your daughter. These two statements indicate further that you fear for the wellbeing of your daugh- ter and that you may consider divorcing your husband. If your daughter is old enough for you to be concerned about her in this sort of area it must indicate that you and your husband have been married for some time. One should not terminate a marriage of any standing simply be- cause a situation about which you have very little information crops up. A broken home, furthermore, could well be more damaging to your daughter than that which you seem to fear so much.

Do you have any desire to learn about something that is new to you or do you simply wish to maintain a highly prejudiced attitude based on no clear knowledge and probably a great deal of misconception. I think you owe it to yourself, your husband and your daughter at least to make an attempt to learn something about a condition before you condemn it so severely. It would be like those who condemn an epileptic as dangerous, insane etc. because they know so little about the true nature of the con- dition. So please, in the interest of all of you, continue to read this letter and read the leaflets that I am including with it. Much better still than that would be for you to invest $4 and buy the book "THE TRANS- VESTITE AND HIS WIFE - A Discussion From Both Points Of View." You can order it from this company. This book was written to try to help wives like yourself understand this pattern. In addition to my contribu- tion to it, it contains an article by a medical doctor, a Catholic Mon- signor, and about a dozen letters by wives of transvestites telling how they came upon the problem and how they learned to understand and live with it. Your position at the moment is understandable. You are greatly hurt, incensed and wrought up about the subject. Primarily, probably because you see something in it that isn't there. I refer to homosexuality. This is a common misconception that any male who would wear a dress was a homosexual. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As a matter of fact I now have in press in a Psychiatric Journal an ar- ticle covering information on 504 cases of heterosexual cross-dressing. This is more cases than can be found in all the world's medical literature put together. It gives some indication of the amount of help Stella, or myself or others would probably get if they went to a psychiatrist as you

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