(Himself)

An avoidance used instead of the name of a man in authority, such as the president of a club, a faned or the male head of a household, sometimes on the principle of He Who Must Not Be Named.

Herself is a similar substitute.

They are not unique to fandom. Ruth Sawyer wrote Herself, Himself and Myself in 1916.

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944

Pename of an unidentified writer in the SFFan, doubtless editor Olon Wiggins.

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