THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR
January 11, 1917.
My dear Miss Addams:
We are just finishing your "Long Road of Woman's Memory" and I wish to write you how successfully you have accomplished the work you set out to do in this volume. Whenever I have given courses in what is ordinarily called child study I have called them studies of interests, activities and occupations and I have always included a section on the study of old age. It occurred to me while reading this book that while the major part of your work has had to do primarily with the problems of middle life, yet it might be the case that, just as you have already given us one study which is concerned with youth and another with old age, some time you will give us a book having to do especially with the problems of middle life. Our general drift away from the old idea of formal discipline shows us the need of books dealing with the problems of specific ages.
I am still at work upon the study of defective nutrition. I have a large amount of excellent material and I wish that I knew how to put it in form as you have used material in your latest book. Especially the skillful <is the> organization and of concrete situations around the theme of the "devil baby".
I have just written a review of Mrs. Young's life for the Independent. I appreciate what Dr. McManis has done but I do wish that Mrs. Young could have been written up in such a way that the book could have the appeal equal to that of "Twenty Years [at] Hull House" and "The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer".
Sincerely,
Frank A. Manny [signed]
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