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October 17, 1972

Dear Mother,

I am surrounded by sleeping men, so I cannot get on to my typing, alas, so I will pen a letter to you. Peter has a friend Freddie (they are both homosexuals) who often spends the night, one on the living room couch and one on the floor. Dean and I watched TV most of the night (there are some terrific old movies on from about 8:30 on to 4 or 5 a.m., and while I usually resist watching, last night they were too good). Dean has worked with or has known personally or knows a lot about a large number of the actors of the older films and he tells me about them. My greatest shock was in discovering that the Perry Mason star, Raymond Burr, had a high-pitched voice in real life and is a homosexual. He was once invited to a party at Burr's home and left quite hastily in horror.

We left the hospital and did not return. Some of the young doctors made an awful mistake in treating his foot we found out from another doctor, who lives just up the street. This doctor is an amazing man (he is a surgeon, a

Transcription Notes:
There are a few words that I couldn't recognize. -I'm a different transcriber, and I was able to identify and fix these