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Fantasy Amateur, v. 4, issue 3, June 1941
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The Fantasy Amateur Page Three EDITOR'S MESSAGE A request on behalf of my successor. . . . In re extra copies of your publication: the editor would appreciate their receipt. Mailings, said our President last time, go astray. We've lost only one mailing during the present fiscal year, so perhaps the five extra suggested by Mr. Tucker last year would seem inordinate. But there are other uses for extra copies. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Cole, of the National Amateur Press Association, published a fine printed paper, the Olympian, dedicated to the late Mr. Lovecraft. They had not printed enough to distribute to FAPA as well, but offered to give a copy to each of those that desired. Mr. Cole wanted to see a mailing; that was impossible. But courtesy demanded a sending of one each of extra copies to him. You have an acquaintance that is an amateur journalist, and that would benefit by FAPA membership? We naturally can not send a mailing, but a few typical copies might give him interest. Some of you--the editors of Polaris, Horizons, Sal, and the like,--sell extra copies outside. Naturally, we have no desire to break your market with complimentary copies sent to the editor; for there can be no check on his honesty, and there will always be the fear that your copies will be misused. So an amendment to require more than the fifty already required would be inadvisable. Your next editor would appreciate a prepayment of postage. Five FAPApers have arrived with insufficient postage, costing the treasury a shade more than half-a-dollar's postage. It is embarrassing to the secy'--treasurer to ask for postage of the errant members. Two of these--to the tune of forty-five cents--were from the same member. Please do not ask my successor in office to hold up the mailing until your particular fan journal arrives. The constitution provides a definite mailing date, the first Saturday of the mailing month; and all members should be aware of this day--giving you three months. No, please don't ask for a delay in the mailing, and avoid embarassment to both. And you who have things to go in the Amateur--messages, critic's reports, and the like--I beg of you to get them to your new Editor with time and to spare. It is excusable to wait for a couple of months to attend developments--why not? But please don't make your Editor beg and wheedle. An orchid or six, if I may, to Mr. Lowndes and to Mr. Rothman. Both have always been prompt; Mr. Lowndes? critic's report for the March mailing arrived two weeks after the mailing was in his hands, and Mr. Rothman has been kind enough to take care of mimeographing these stencils, plus stencilling the membership list and the Secretary's report. Thanks to you both. And an item of trivia: two members have been attempting to procure copies of back mailings. Will those of you with back issues for sale kindly contact the next Editor? A ten per cent brokerage fee will be charged for the benefit of our treasury, just in case the dues-raising amendment fails to pass this time. All. Love, Elmer A word of warning to prospective officers: two of your present board have had to trade in their old teeth on nice new shiny dentures. Watch out, candidates! (Say, Juffus: is triple-interlineation innovation?)
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The Fantasy Amateur Page Three EDITOR'S MESSAGE A request on behalf of my successor. . . . In re extra copies of your publication: the editor would appreciate their receipt. Mailings, said our President last time, go astray. We've lost only one mailing during the present fiscal year, so perhaps the five extra suggested by Mr. Tucker last year would seem inordinate. But there are other uses for extra copies. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Cole, of the National Amateur Press Association, published a fine printed paper, the Olympian, dedicated to the late Mr. Lovecraft. They had not printed enough to distribute to FAPA as well, but offered to give a copy to each of those that desired. Mr. Cole wanted to see a mailing; that was impossible. But courtesy demanded a sending of one each of extra copies to him. You have an acquaintance that is an amateur journalist, and that would benefit by FAPA membership? We naturally can not send a mailing, but a few typical copies might give him interest. Some of you--the editors of Polaris, Horizons, Sal, and the like,--sell extra copies outside. Naturally, we have no desire to break your market with complimentary copies sent to the editor; for there can be no check on his honesty, and there will always be the fear that your copies will be misused. So an amendment to require more than the fifty already required would be inadvisable. Your next editor would appreciate a prepayment of postage. Five FAPApers have arrived with insufficient postage, costing the treasury a shade more than half-a-dollar's postage. It is embarrassing to the secy'--treasurer to ask for postage of the errant members. Two of these--to the tune of forty-five cents--were from the same member. Please do not ask my successor in office to hold up the mailing until your particular fan journal arrives. The constitution provides a definite mailing date, the first Saturday of the mailing month; and all members should be aware of this day--giving you three months. No, please don't ask for a delay in the mailing, and avoid embarassment to both. And you who have things to go in the Amateur--messages, critic's reports, and the like--I beg of you to get them to your new Editor with time and to spare. It is excusable to wait for a couple of months to attend developments--why not? But please don't make your Editor beg and wheedle. An orchid or six, if I may, to Mr. Lowndes and to Mr. Rothman. Both have always been prompt; Mr. Lowndes? critic's report for the March mailing arrived two weeks after the mailing was in his hands, and Mr. Rothman has been kind enough to take care of mimeographing these stencils, plus stencilling the membership list and the Secretary's report. Thanks to you both. And an item of trivia: two members have been attempting to procure copies of back mailings. Will those of you with back issues for sale kindly contact the next Editor? A ten per cent brokerage fee will be charged for the benefit of our treasury, just in case the dues-raising amendment fails to pass this time. All. Love, Elmer A word of warning to prospective officers: two of your present board have had to trade in their old teeth on nice new shiny dentures. Watch out, candidates! (Say, Juffus: is triple-interlineation innovation?)
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