Spencer tells Addams that she won't be able to attend the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section meeting in New Orleans and details her plans for the meeting and suggestions to take on the chairmanship.
Spencer offers Addams advice about the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section and warns about aligning the group with radical and militant movements.
Addams describes the poverty of the Hull-House neighborhood in the early days of her work there. She discusses the lack of security and loneliness of the elderly, as well as child labor.
Karsten tells Balch that Addams hopes that she will not resign from the American Committee of Five of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, and provides news of the peace movement.
Balch tells Addams that Florence Kelley has been elected to represent the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on the Committee on the Nationality of Married Women.
Rowe, the secretary for Illinois Governor Richard Yates Jr., writes to acknowledge receiving Addams' letter regarding Florence Kelley, and to arrange a meeting in Springfield.
Addams encourages Post to go abroad as an alternate delegate of the Committee of Five and tells her about the difficulties she and others have been having securing passports.
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.