Dear Editor'

LETTERS

My Dear Virginia:

It is now almost two years since I read of you in a short report in the Financial Times of your late night television interview when you were in London, and now I am very excitedly looking forward to meeting you this Autumn. These have been very momentous times for me, since dur- ing this period I have read about a dozen copies of TVia (bought at enormous expense from one of these little book shops in Soho) and have experienced the lovely birth and emergence of Jacquelaine from the shadows where her brother never really understood what it was all about. I have read so many of your articles now, and really feel that. I know you and many of the girls quite well from your photos, and it really is quite remarkable how completely I have been able to identify myself with the TV scene you describe so nicely. My story is so much a carbon copy of so many that I will not bore you with the details, except to say "how blessed is your name and all the work you have done for girls like me." Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I'm sure you will be amused with my story of how I got in touch with the girls of the Beaumont Society in the UK. After reading of your visit to London, when, I realised FPE and TVia were the living proof that I was not some sort of nut case, I searched out a source of TVia. I read 58, 59 60 all with great excitement and then got some earlier issues 38, 42 etc and got to know and recognise many of the girls including Alga and Sylvia of course. Then I think 59 came along with the notes of your Eur- opean visit and your reference to Beaumont. That set me off again, but the one thing I didn't do was of course the obvious thing of writing to you. Instead I hunted around without success until you published a letter from Margaret Elizabeth which referred to "Pamelas letter to the Ob-

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