NEW YORK, JULY 14, 1915.
My dear Miss Addams:
I did not want to bother you while you were so busy in New York, with the idea regarding which Mr. Lochner telegraphed you, and <as> to which you told me to inform him that you would not consent. I did not have an opportunity to telegraph him on Friday night and it seemed that when I did telegraph him, he had already started East.
May I urge upon you the advantage to our cause which such a series of meetings would achieve in the cities between here and Chicago.
The Navy League is just organizing a "campaign of education" with illustrated lectures, etc., throughout the Middle West. Your [traveling] across the continent, speaking from the train or in meetings as you go would be carried in all the local press out there as a front page story, and would be a most excellent opening for any newspaper campaign which we are able to produce in opposition to our friends of the Navy League.
I know that the personal equation in this makes it difficult for you to accept the limelight position, but for the cause in which we labor, is it not necessary to obliterate personal feelings entirely? I hope that you will be able to grant the petitions of those of us who are working to rouse the public mind on this question, and that you will be willing to undertake this disagreeable task.
Very truly yours,
L. Hollingsworth Wood [signed]
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