Hooker writes to Robins of Addams' reluctance to take meetings until there was a meeting planned, but volunteered to host a dinner to discuss the matter.
Speranza hopes Addams will take the time to meet with the new acting Counsul General of Italy for Chicago as he is interested in "sociological questions".
Macmillan offers a defense against malicious statements about the company circulating in Chicago. Brett hoped to clarify the issue with Addams, who was a member of the school board and might help.
Brett responds to Addams' previous letter and assures her that she can take however long she wants to with proofreading her manuscript, as long as "it may be in our hands for successful publication at no distant day".
Brett notes that Newer Ideals of Peace can be published as early as December 20, but that they think it should be held to January; he encloses her advance check.
Brett apologizes on some late delivery of Addams' new book, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets and discusses a plan for publication of her new book and the printing of some of that book's material in The American Magazine.
Speranza asks the members of the Committee on Crime and Immigration to inform him of particular questions the committee should consider and that they will convene via correspondence due to the difficulty of scheduling a meeting of the group.
Speranza accepts MacChesney's invitation to serve as chairman of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology Committee, which includes Jane Addams.
Brett writes Addams to propose the idea of selling discounted copies of Twenty Years at Hull House through the Chautauqua Society. He also proposes a new book idea.
Abbott writes Speranza with Jane Addams' opinion that the North American Civic League should conduct an investigation into crime and immigration in New York.
