Geneva, Febr. 6th, 1925.
Dear Miss Addams,
I thank you for the authorization to use your signature; Lady Aberdeen suggests to present the joint letter to the Secr. General of the League of Nations by a ↑joint↓ deputation. It is possible that Mme. Duchêne -- who will be here the 19th for a Council Meeting of the Save the Children Fund -- will be able to represent us. If it cannot be arranged for that day, I shall have to go for our League.
I was sorry not to have cabled you as soon as Miss Raven had accepted to manage our house; but as you had written me that you are hoping one of my three candidates will accept, I thought it was not necessary (and not having received any money from Chicago in January, I had to be economical).
I am pretty sure the [Boyntons] would not have accepted it; their health is so extremely delicate, that they did not even dare to come here for some weeks, for fear that the house was not warm enough. I cannot imagine either of them as responsible for a rather complicated household, so undecided and [page 2] unreliable are they in appointments. Miss Dunlop will tell you that Miss Ella B. arrived more than an hour late to her own lecture. I had to invite her three times to lunch, before she once held her promise etc. This is no criticism, they certainly have other good qualities, but it is not what one could call the [mentality] for the direction of Maison Internationale. I hope that Miss Raven will prove what she has been before: simple, industrious, helpful and conscientious.
We are preparing a public lecture of Pierre Cérésole on the practical experiment in alternative civilian service which was made under his leadership at [Sorens?] Switzerland. I am planning for a private meeting with Mme. Duchêne, which ought to be the day before unfortunately, and the day after Mrs. Emmott from the Friends' Society will be in our house and speak at the Friends' [center].
Gertrud Woker is sailing the 25th, and she and Dr. Sahlbom will meet in Paris before; the German Section is ready to send 2-3 representatives, if a meeting of the Committee against Scientific Warfare can meet at the same time.
I am working hard to make the Half-yearly report a legible document and to issue a News Letter in February too.
Please find enclosed a very sad, but most wonderful document.
With kindest regards
Sincerely yours
Vilma Glücklich
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