4th Letter

“Shannon Barry~

I got the money you sent me. Thank you.”

(I sent her a few dollars for stamps and stationary)

“I've received so many letters and cards from you its hard to answer or keep them all. You said that your costumer for the show had brought you a long dress and beads to wear and I thought that a typical image that really never suited me. Although I was wearing a below the knee nice Albert Nipon dress under my robe—(I got the dress at a consignment store)—I generally wore them at all. The 60s, of course, were a notorious time for the mini mini and I've often been seen in outfits I can’t imagine wearing now. I never wore a mu mu or empire waist dress except to bed, and I and the girls I knew at the ranch didn’t wear petchuli (sp?) oil or beads. I don’t remember EVER wearing beads, not in the Haight, not in Hollywood, certainly not at the ranch, in the desert or in the woods. I didn’t own earrings or rings. Still don’t. I guess its hard to costume me—whoever or whatever me is supposed to be for whom and what and whatever.

L. Fromme

Pronounced w/ a long O Froh-me”