William Thomas                      
                   1440 N Street N.W. Apt.410          
                     Washington, D.C.  20005             

                        December 17, 1988

Becky DeLanoy
1031 Garden Drive
Villa 7
New Port Richey, Fla
                    34652

Dear Mom:

     Got your Christmas card and present.  Thank you very much.

     Not too much to write about on this end.  Things are pretty
much the same, for Thomas anyway.  He has become a creature of
habit.  Almost all his time is spent on paperwork for the courts.

     Maybe it is not all in vain.  Judge Green seems to be taking
us more seriously than Judge Oberdorfer did.  We have another
hearing scheduled for January 9, 1988.  That hearing could be very
crucial to us ... one way or the other.

     Don't know whether you know our friend Sita.  She is an
elderly lady who has befriended us over the years, primarily by
allowing us to store our paperwork in her apartment.  She was hit
by a car, and has been in the hospital for some weeks now.  She is
scheduled to be getting out on Monday, and it appears that Ellen
and I will be nursing her until she is again ambulatory.

     Other things are going on besides my legal morass.  Ellen is,
of course, active.  She has been working on several projects
concerning homelessness.  Among other things she's been putting
together a video.  I might have been a little misleading; actually
the woman didn't buy us a video camera, she bought herself a video
camera which she allows Ellen to use.

     I'm going to cut this short as, as usual, I'm doing a lot of
other writing.

     Hope you might get up to see us someday.

     Wishing you the happiest of holidays, and coming new year.

                              Love, your son,


                              Thomas   
 
William Thomas                      
1440 N Street N.W. Apt.410          
Washington, D.C.  20005             


Becky DeLanoy
1031 Garden Drive
Villa 7
New Port Richey, Fla
                    34652