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and interested. He even ordered a copy of Understanding Cross Dressing which was something of a victory. Late in the afternoon I was picked up by one of the London girls and driven to Farnsworth, about 60 miles southwest of London, to the home of a couple who put on a party for me. They had about 30 FPs there and about 10 wives. It was a great party and I remembered a lot of the girls from three years ago when they had done the same thing.

Got back to the hotel and bed about 2 a.m. Sunday morning. When I opened my eyes and looked at the clock it said four o'clock. Since it was a brand new travel clock I'd just bought the day before I was afraid that it wasn't working right so I checked my watch-—still on L.A. time so I had to subtract four hours from its reading (the same as adding eight) and it came out to four, too. I couldn't believe it and put on my robe and went downstairs to check with the landlady. She saw me coming down the stairs in nightie and robe and with mock scolding she said, "Do you know what time it is?" I said no, that was why I'd come downstairs. She replied that it was four o'clock, in a tone of considerable disapproval. So, trying to catch up on my jet lag I had slept most of Sunday away. However, there was enough of it left to walk down to Speakers Corner in Hyde Park and listen to the various speakers expound on religion, race, communism or whatever. Quite an experience.

Most of the following week was spent in walking around Sohos Adult bookstores trying to find a guy who owed me $180 for the last two years. Didn't find him but made a contact and got paid anyway. Also went to see the two big accounts I have in London and had a nice visit with both of them. Found that there were a couple of TV mags being published over there so I went to see the publisher to work out a representation arrangement for the American market which I did. I won't be selling them myself because they aren't the type I want to be involved with but since I know others who would be in a position to be distributors I arranged the representation.

Since I have another book (not about TVism) coming out of my head I had prepared an outline and mailed it off to about a dozen American publishers in Boston and New York since I would be in both cities on the way home. But I also walked my legs off on London pavements making the rounds of the publishing houses there. I found that they were having a London Book Fair at the Hotel Grosvenor and

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