ter" that you had not given the Lesbian a fair hearing in WE WALK ALONE and WE TOO MUST LOVE, we feel that you have not given THE LADDER a fair hearing in CAROL. Whilo you were unable to find anything at all of morit in a full year's gratis subscription (we found it only fair to advise you of what was being said about your works), another author found material in the September and October issues worth quoting. Wo refer to Attorney Morris Lowenthal, who quoted from "Open Letter to Assemblyman John A. O'Connell," "Crime Story," and the report on the Mattachine Society's New York Convention in his brief presented to the California Appellate Court in the Vallerga casc.

We are not groat, Miss Aldrich, but we are also not as ridiculous as you would make us out. For anyone can take a pieco, quote from it out of context and come up with inferences that were not in the original.

So you've had a ball, Miss Aldrich, at our expenso. And nonetheless we're flatterod. For as Miss Damon points out in her review of CAROL, this is your best book to date. And we're happy to have been included realizing,

of course, that any praise of our organization and its efforts could easily have led to some blue-pencil editing by your publisher. As you would put it, "It's better to have been mentioned disparagingly than never to have been mentioned at all" by A.A. the Herb Caen of the homophile publishing world.

We are flattered too, Miss Aldrich, because you took our advico. You included in this latest volume "A Happy Life, A Constructive Life." And we admire you too, Miss Aldrich, for letting the last two sontences stand:

"Eight years ago I would have thought it rather incongruous to add the words 'a happy' Lesbian. But despite my own adolescent doubts and fears, despite the thousand and one unhappy Lesbian novels and plays, and despite the Ann Aldrich exposes, believe me, there are such things...." -Del Martin

Copies of CAROL IN A THOUSAND CITIES are available from the DOB Book Service as are all of the 1958 issues inLetter to Ann Aldrich." See pg. 21.

cluding April's "Open