Addams invites Blaine to a private meeting of nurses, settlement folk and members of the Board of Charities to discuss the Board of Health's clinical service trial.
Addams writes Blaine with news of taking the Rockford Summer School to Chautauqua, New York, and asks for an opinion of the chapter Educational Methods fromSocial Ethics and Democracy.
Addams congratulates Blaine and the City Homes Association for their hard work and remarks on a discussion she had with Charles Eliot about the closed shop.
Addams asks Blaine for her annual Hull-House donation, so that they may cover costs of Christmas refreshments and invites her to hear a talk on glass factory work.
Addams thanks Blaine for the flowers, describing the staff of Hull-House as battered and worn from the holidays. Addams sends Blaine a silver box made by the boys in the shop.
Armstrong writes to Addams about the differences between gender segregated and non-segregated classes and how women and men teach these classes differently.