January 24th, 1918
My dear Miss Van Winkle:
I am enclosing a copy of the address which in the main, I have been giving. I vary it for almost every audience. In Cincinnati, for instance, they had had a great deal of detailed instruction and wanted the more general international point of view. In other places, of course, it is necessary to be much simpler; but I think the copy I am enclosing is on the whole what I have been giving most of the time, although I always speak without notes.
The first part of the talk, as you see, is made up very largely from pamphlets issued by the Department and the latter part, beginning where I have indicated with a cross, is on the general international aspect of food conservation. As I understand the situation from what has been said by the Bureau of Information and others since the President's last address, we are all desired to emphasize the possibilities of reconstruction after the war. I myself received the other day a very friendly letter from the President in reply to resolutions I had forwarded to him.
If the first part of my address is too closely copied from the pamphlets issued by the Department and you would like to have me write something more general for publication, I should be glad to attempt it. I am enclosing a letter from the New York Evening Post, similar to other letters I have received. I suppose there would be no objection to my sending in advance a copy of my address.
I am planning to leave with a friend, Miss Mary Smith, for California on March first. I will be at the Antlers Hotel, Colorado Springs, from Sunday, March third, to Sunday, March tenth. I will be in Southern California from March fifteenth until the end of the month. My address there will be care of the Mission Inn, Riverside, California. I could take any speaking engagements for Colorado or California falling within these given dates. The speaking engagements for Food Conservation that I have on hand are in addition to the one at Cornell, several in Chicago: February 17th, before the Chicago Ethical Society and February 27th before the Chicago Woman's Club.
Thanking you for your many courtesies, I am,
Faithfully yours,
Jane Addams [signed]
↑P.S. I am sorry that my copy is so poor that I shall have to send it on Tuesday. J. A.↓
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