June 4" 1919
Dearest
Harriet Herrick yesterday had one of her old heart attacks in the street & is now at the hospital at Neuilly. She had called on us at 11.30 A.M. and had a provisional engagement to lunch with Dorothy North and me at 12 as Alice and [Jeannette?] were going off together. When she didn't come I concluded that it was because we were late for she is very careful about her one o'clock engagement. At half past three an agitated Red X lady came in to say that she hadn't [page 2] turned & that no one knew where she was. A search was made by the U.S.A. military police who found her at the hospital at half past five where she had been conveyed by a nurse who found her. Alice and I saw her last night. She did not seem nearly so ill as after her attack in Chicago and today when I saw her the doctor thought that she could leave in a few days. Alice went on to England this morning, I am staying on partly because the rest of the Committee are so insistent that I should and partly because [page 3] I didn't want to leave until I knew how Mrs Herrick was coming on. She is just as sweet and dear as she can be and full of high purpose about always having a regular job, but I have a suspicion that we ought to bring her home with us. Her Red X job ends on the 31" of June but she has a prospect of something here with the Y.M.C.A. until fall [although] they may not take her now that she has been so dramatically ill. Our plans are up in the air and I am beginning to believe that we will sail home on the 22d of June as we first [page 4] planned. The uncertain state of the Peace negotiations makes Mr Hoover doubtful about our original scheme -- [although] the amt of food to be bought with that Quaker $30000, is enormous.
Of course it is interesting here but I shall be glad to be out of it which I will sure to be by Saturday or Monday. I was in bed myself for two days with a digestive upset but am all right again. My dearest love to you -- Always yrs
Jane Addams
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