February 21st, 1918
Dear Lady:
Thank you for your kind letter of February nineteenth with its much needed hope that peace may be arriving. I am very sorry about the difficulty between Miss Eastman and Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Mead, as an old friend of Mrs. Williams, had been asked to explain the matter to her, and the rest of the Board assumed that this had been done or I think we might have avoided it with a little tact. We, of course, regret it very much and are appointing a small arbitration committee of Miss Balch and Mrs. Mead to try to straighten the matter out.
Mary and I are off to California very soon. I wish you were going with us.
Always devotedly yours,
Jane Addams [signed]
[written up left margin] ↑P.S. I thought I had written you that we were not coming to N.Y. in March -- a stern doctor put me in the hospital for a few days last week and [ordered?] me to California for March! We will [see] you here in May!↓
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