The Hague -- Holland --
Dearest
We are cabling today that we are going on to the continent after all. We have waited here two weeks for the treaty to be signed and at the very crucial moment Mr Hoover came on to Oxford to take his degree and he & his sec'y were able to finish all the arrangements here. We have sold our tickets on the Baltic which sails tomorrow and hope to get off to Rotterdam within a few days.
A group of English Quakers are going in next week so that we are planning to stay put a very short time and will probably get our sailings from Rotterdam for the last of July, being home certainly by the middle of Aug.
I hope that it isn't a foolish thing to do, it seems both to Alice & to me as if it were worthwhile from every point of view. We have been at England longer than we planned of course but it [page 2] has all been very much worthwhile and we have seen many interesting people.
The papers here are much more outspoken on the entire situation than in the U.S.A. I imagine and there is great sincerity of thinking, which perhaps seems greater because of the direct expression which this country indulges in. It is all very stimulating. I have seen something of the economists & settlement people but the exciting thing [was?] the Crane Com. inquiry and similar affairs which are to be found on all sides. Alice has been such a trump and such a fine thing in every situation. Do plan to meet us in N.Y. when we land and perhaps we can spend a few days together at Hadlyme. She is devoted to it and so anxious to have us see it. My love to you & to the Lady. I am always devotedly yours
Jane Addams.
June 24" 1919
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