PLEASE CABLE REPLY TO THIS PART OF MY LETTER
Geneva, February 4th, 1920.
Dear Miss Addams,
I am sending with this the same letter that I am sending to the other members of the Executive Committee.
Are you going to Madrid? Could you represent us there? Do, please, if you can.
If there is no chance of getting you and we could send [Mme] Duchêne or Mrs. Swanwick or Frl. Heymann, or Mrs. Larsen or Madame Ramondt or Mlle Gobat, should you favor doing so? (I have named them in the order of my own preference, yours may be quite different)
If necessary do you think we should pay expenses? Could we do so? Would there be any chance of a special contribution to make this possible?
I hope that it may be possible to organize a meeting at Madrid, quite aside from the Congress, to explain and recommend our [organization] and work, so that I do not regard sending fraternal delegates as an empty form by any means.
Would you join in [authorizing] me to appoint delegates if it comes to that? There may be a hurry in the end. Of course if possible I should act in consultation with the whole Executive Committee but things sometimes get squeezed at the last and I want to be able to make out authentic credentials.
If you are going to Madrid would you go or return via Geneva and have our Executive Committee meeting here at that time? I wrote pressingly long ago about the question of this Executive Committee meeting which should come as nearly a year after the Zurich meeting as practicable and I begin to fear that my letter never reached you.
The English Section want a summer school and Frl Heymann is also much pleased with the idea. We are talking in a provisional way of 2 weeks in August in the highlands near Munich. Do you approve in [page 2] principle? Of these suggested arrangements? Could you come and speak? Do, [so], if you can -- it would make the meeting for all of us. In that happy case we should, I suppose, have an Executive Committee at that time and place.
The thing that presses the most is this question of the meeting of the Executive Committee. Other people's plans hang rather inconveniently on yours.
So please cable reply, unless a letter is on the way. There has been no American mail for a long interval, I think over two weeks. Not even the Consulate knows why.
With love always,
Emily Balch [signed]
↑Enclosed.↓ [page 3]
Part II.
Geneva, February 4th, 1920.
Dear Miss Addams,
I am sending you herewith copies of letters in regard to the Canadian situation which seems looking up. Mrs. Prenter's letter impresses me very favorably, Mrs. Lunde being now married and domiciled in Chicago and knowing what we do of her it seems to me we should now "do business" with Mrs. Prenter. I shall be glad to get your view on all this.
Yours always
Emily Balch [signed]
It is to be noted the Miss Rose Henderson of whom Mrs. Lunde speaks is now cooperating with Mrs. Prenter which seems reassuring.
Enclosed:
Letter from Mrs. Prenter, Jan. 13.
[Letter from Mrs.] Lunde, Nov. 7.
I enclose a copy part of a letter to Mr. Villard about Professor Foerster's coming to America. Can Hull House help to get the greatest possible amount of education for Americans out of his coming.
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