Maynard writes Addams about her experience hosting French delegates, life without her husband, and fond memories of Chicago, prompted by her reading of Edna Ferber's So Big, a novel set in a suburb of the city.
Swanwick tells Addams that she cannot write the pamphlet Addams asked, because she has taken over editing Foreign Affairs after the death of E. D. Morel.
Addams tells Catt that the attacks against the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom have been answered by Emily Balch and the World, and that she does not take them seriously.