April 20, 1950

     Mr. L. Ron Hubbard

     c/o Astounding Science Fiction

     New York, N.Y.

     Dear Mr. Hubbard, –

     ...I have waited twenty-four hours to write you so that there would be an interval from my enthusiasm after reading your article on “Dianetics” to cool. It hasn’t. And I’m still in a state of blissful contemplation of an unfolding universe. Today I will buy the book and begin the study but:-

     If Dianetics is the kind of technique you describe, one would need a special kind of technical training to meet the demands of the service it can render. I would like to be trained to be such a technician. How can I do it?

     I have an excellent background for special training, teaching in high school, newspaper woman with a signed column (seven years), syndication, marriage, two children, free lancing, then public relations;