Cheever updates Addams on the condition of Emily Greene Balch's health and the activities of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's office in Geneva.
Addams writes that she is feeling better after an illness, and her doctor is allowing her to leave the house. She is upset, however, that she will not see Haldeman in the coming month or two.
Addams thanks Blaine for sending her a check for $1,000, and adds that she is enclosing a clipping from a newspaper which will explain a certain misunderstanding.
Addams's eulogy for Gordon Dewey, the son of her friends John and Dewey. This version, which is likely the one she delivered at a memorial for the boy at Hull-House, is shortened from her original draft.