RANSVESTIA

SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE!

Yes, something does because I can't be in two places at once. This little piece is by way of warning you not to be panicked by delays in pub- lication and receiving things for the rest of this year. It's going to be a busy year for me and when I'm in one place I can't be somewhere else or be doing other things. Here is what is lined up for me from May I on. May 6 - 12 American Psychiatric Association convention Honolulu.

May 31 - June 4 Society for Scientific Study of Sex meeting in Las Vegas to read a paper on TV-TS differentiation.

June 23-25

June 15 - 21

Aug. 25

Sept. 8-10

Sept. 19

Nov 6

American Library Association Convention Las Vegas - invited to speak on Sunday the 24th

Middlewest trip to give seminar at Institute of Sex Research (Kinsey) in Bloomington, Ind. and prob- ably make some appearances in Chicago on the way. St. Louis on the way back to consult with Psychia- trists at Washington University in St. Louis about joint research.

(or thereabouts) Leave for Europe but will do appear- ances in the States on the way.

Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia for Erickson Foundation Seminar on Transexualism.

Due in Beirut, Lebanon, for beginning of Middle Eastern tour. Ending in Athens Nov. 5.

(approximately) In Copenhagen, Paris and London meeting with FPE groups in all three places.

It should be clear that this pretty well breaks up the year. I will do my best to get issues of TVia and Supplements to the FPE Directory out in the intervals in between but since one has to depend on printers, etc, it is hard to keep an eye on things when you are away. So, if you don't get as prompt service as you are used to, you will know why. Mary works about twelve hours straight on the one day she can give to Chevalier, and when I am gone this is not enough as the things that I usually do she has to take on extra such as making up deposits, going to bank, making up and mailing the commercial shipments, checking up on the printer, filling the postal meter at the P.O., etc. She will, of necessity, fall behind but she will do the best she can as she always has so bear with her, please.

If too much time goes by and you wonder if we got an order or if it was shipped, ask the question on a postcard so all she has to do is say yes or no or give a date, etc., and mail it back. Don't make her pour through a long letter to find out your question and then to take time to write a letter in return. Virginia