Haldeman tells Addams of her trip to Dayton, Tennessee, including eating in a Thompson Restaurant, a chain of restaurants that began in Chicago. This letter may not have been sent.
Balch asks Addams for guidance on issues to be discussed at the upcoming Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Executive Committee meeting and discusses her travels in Europe.
Addams offers praise of John Dewey' and his work for social welfare, criminal justice reform, education, and peace. The speech was given on October 19, as part of a seventieth birthday celebration in New York and published in the Survey.
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.