April 27, 1917.
Dear Miss Addams:
Mr. DeForest is back from California; he has been swamped and it is only tonight that Arthur and I have been able to make an appointment with him to go over Survey [matters]. I prepared this memorandum on the record of six months, the opportunity [there?], and the questions of editorial stewardship. It is too long of course to present at a board meeting, and I may send it out in whole or in part in advance. Will you be good enough to give me your criticisms or suggestions -- with great fullness and frankness; and with my assurance that anything you may say will not be misconstrued by me.
However imperfect and [illegible] this document is, it is a very serious attempt to do my best to think through a complex situation and [observe not] only the letter but the spirit of this venture to which we all have given so [much].
Mr. DeForest will of course call [a meeting] of the [Board in a week] or ten days. I hesitate to even raise the question of your making another trip East, but if developments in the interval indicate that the whole future service of The Survey is at stake, I may urge you to do so.
Here is an encouraging note from Mr. Baker.
Sincerely,
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