Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge to Jane Addams, March 13, 1920

New York, March 13, 1920

Miss Jane Addams,
Hull House,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Miss Addams:

The American Academy in Rome, the highest institution of Arts and Classical Studies owned by the people of this country, is celebrating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of its foundation by securing an endowment which will make it safe and strong for centuries to come.

The Academy has amply justified the vision of its founders by furnishing some of the most brilliant American architects, painters, sculptors, scholars in archaeology, classics, and history. It has also been conspicuous and influential in strengthening friendly relations between Italy and the United States.

It is now the Academy's intention to open its doors for the Fellowships in the Fine Arts to the women of America, and to establish Fellowships in Landscape Architecture and Musical Composition, as well as to extend its educational value by increasing the volume of its publications. It is also necessary to make the Academy better known to all thoughtful men and women of this country, to make them realize the priceless treasure they possess -- a treasure well worthy of comparison with the [page 2] French and other National Academies in the Eternal City.

The endowment necessary to provide the income for these needs may be summarized as follows:

The Endowment Committee implicitly trusts in the appeal which the history of the Academy, its aims and its hopes, as expressed in a book which we are sending you, will make to you, and confidently relies upon your cooperation.

Very truly yours,

S. B. P. Trowbridge [signed]

Chairman.

ENDOWMENT FUND COMMITTEE