The lost World War II letters of Edythe Eyde, who started America's first lesbian publication
Edythe Eyde was a secretary at a war dog training center in California in 1944 when she encountered a wounded veteran. He was on crutches after suffering injuries in the Pacific and Eyde invited him to her family's house and baked him a chocolate cake. Edythe described the encounter in a letter dated Aug. 23, 1944, one of the many times she wrote to her cousins as World War II raged overseas. Her letters ...



