Bonvallet explains to Addams how her family is fairing in the war, including her mother, three sisters, and six nephews. She also discusses her husband and children, as well as her own inability to handle her family's tragedies.
Addams drafts her arguments for the protection of migrant laborers, food supplies, and discusses the different outlook that the working class have towards war. The speech was prepared for the National Conference on Foreign Relations of the United States.
Addams expresses gratitude for Myra and Stanley Ross Linn's holiday gifts. Addams also informs Linn of a recent move by Ernest Adams Young and Sarah Weber Addams Young.
Addams writes Smith about her disappointment in missing Thanksgiving at Hull-House because of a wound, but reports she is improving after working on a speech and seeing the arrival of copies of Twenty Years at Hull House.
