Manley,
Jane Addams is very anxious to see you. She's [at] the Continental (Room 405). But if you can, meet her at a tea in her honor at Mme Duchene's, at 5 this afternoon. The whole bunch will be there See enclosed.
10 Quai Debilly -- previous name of street
Avenue de Tokio -- new name
(just beyond Place de [illegible], facing the river.)
Lewis Gannett [page 2]
Paris, April 22, 1919
A group of American women has just arrived in Paris on their way to attend the Second International Congress of Women, which will be held in Switzerland early in May. In the group are: Jane Addams, of Chicago; Emily G. Balch, formerly professor at Wellesley College; Dr. Alice Hamilton of the Federal Department of Labor, recently appointed assistant professor in the Harvard Medical School -- the first woman to become a member of the Harvard faculty; Mrs. Florence Kelley of New York City, general secretary of the National Consumers' League of which Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, is President; Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston; Miss Rose Nichols of Boston; Mrs. Louis F. Post, wife of the Assistant Secretary of Labor; Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula, Montana, formerly Congresswoman from Montana; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, representing the colored women of America; and Mrs. John Jay White, also of Washington.
Miss Rose Schneiderman of the Women's Trade Union League, Miss Lillian D. Wald, of the Henry Street Settlement of New York, and other American women already in Paris, will join them.
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