Margarete Ward
about Gong Hee Fot Choy

Lee Ming died in China in 1928, a very old man, and Mr. Kwan Tsi Ching died in 1932. The night Mr. Ching died; the vision came to me that he called me on the phone and told me of his coming death. A few weeks later a letter came from China telling me he had passed on. To me they are not dead - they are alive and they often visit me and Lee Ming urges me to write his teachings so he can help my people.

Note.

In 1981, as Gong Hee Fot Choy Tells Your Fortune was republished in a new edition, bringing the total copies in print to 500,000, in an interview by the publishers, her husband of 49 years, Edward Arnold Winfield gives some comments about the first edition of Gong Hee Fot Choy Tells Your Fortune.

"She had started to work on Born to the Purple before we were married and in the early '30s she decided to put the fortune telling game Gong Hee Fot Choy Tells Your Fortune together. She wanted to do something that would be an accomplishment. I said go ahead and see if you can get someone to print it.

She got a company in Los Angeles to print the book and we put up all the money. I remember telling her that we were putting hard-earned money into this (it was the Depression then, remember) and I wanted to proofread it myself. The printer didn't proof it at all, I made all the corrections. I wanted to make it perfect but she said no. She said it was good enough and so we went from there. It was first published in 1932 or 1933. I told her she was not charging enough for the book. The cost was $1, and the deluxe edition was $3. "

Born to the purple, the karma of Princess Minerva by Margarete Ward. Published 1938 by Kellaway-Ide Company in Los Angeles.

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