January 21, 1916
Dear Sister Kelley: --
I am somewhat disconcerted by your letter saying that you could not become one of the twenty delegates.
Of course, the whole object of the committee of five is to prepare the meeting "at the time and place the terms of settlement are made", and the committee of five are expected to attend as a matter of course. You would not be one of the twenty because you would be one of the five, but if you really feel that you could not go the second time it would be hardly worth while for you to go the first.
I am putting this quite bluntly -- you know, don't you, that it doesn't mean that I am not "quite crazy" to have you go with me in the Spring, but the meeting in the Spring is very largely to prepare for the meeting to be held later.
Altogether there will be 35 delegates from America; the original five, twenty elected and ten alternates. Do reconsider the situation. I have [page 2] telegraphed Dr. Jacobs "Doctors consent to April sailing; arrive about the twentieth with at least one of committee".
There is a chance, of course, that Mrs. Fanny Fern Andrews will go over at the same time.
Always devotedly yours,
Jane Addams. [signed]
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