Addams sends Breckinridge three letters about lynchings, including one from Oswald Garrison Villard that encloses a newspaper clipping about a brutal lynching in Florida.
Kalbach expresses his disappointment that Addams cannot serve as a representative to the Congress on Public Assistance in Antwerp and asks for a recommendation to take her place.
After Addams declined an invitation to speak at the Industrial School Association in Detroit, Hatch writes in the hopes of scheduling another time and to solicit ideas for a replacement.
Addams thanks Breckinridge for sending her a report on education, encloses a letter about the issues of rural education, and notes that she has lost faith in her writing project.
Replying to a letter Palmer had sent to Jane Addams, Breckinridge asks permission to send a worker from a United Charities to check on Palmer's impoverished family member.
Addams thanks Breckinridge for sending The Three Plays by Brieux and mentions that she may send a copy of the manuscript of her new book,A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, for suggestions.
