Shaw writes to Addams to clarify the awkward situation between the National and State associations for suffrage in navigating the Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft campaigns.
Shaw congratulates Addams on her nominating speech at the Progressive Party Convention, but notes that she does not share Addams' faith in Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt asks Addams to consider making public the enclosed letter of endorsement from Millicent Fawcett and to write an article or two about the social platform of the Progressive Party.
