Addams recalls stories from her childhood meetings with Civil War Colonel John A. Davis, as part of a dedication of a guest chamber at the Abraham Lincoln Center settlement in his honor. The speech was published in a pamphlet on the event.
Addams writes Haldeman that she Yale is conferring upon her an honorary Master's degree, and she sends best wishes for Haldeman's health after surgery.
Linn thanks Addams for sending Twenty Years at Hull-House, noting that he is particularly touched by the passages in the book about his grandfather, Addams' father.
