December 31, 1920.
My dear Miss Addams:
I enclose a fresh copy of the resolutions that we are most anxious to have you present in person to Mr. Harding. Will it be possible for you to stop at Marion on your way home from your next trip to Washington? I think Mr. Harding goes South next week, but will be home by the middle of the month. I feel, of course, that resolutions of this kind cannot have very much effect, and would have no effect at all, and in fact never reach him, if sent by mail; but I do think that if you personally went to him, using these resolutions more as an excuse for an audience than anything else, and then told him what the Women's International League is, and how women of all countries are looking to him to do away with Armament, and even back of that, to work toward conditions that will do away with reasons for war. In other words, no one in America can speak for women of America as well as you, and I do think the voice of the women should be heard at this time when men and men's opinions are coming before him in such numbers.
As to expense, the League Treasury will stand for that. Only tell us that you can undertake the trip. It wouldn't be much out of your way as you journey from Washington to Chicago.
The next committee meeting is Thursday, January sixth, and I would like to have your answer at that meeting; also your final opinion as to the date of the annual meeting.
Very affectionately,
Mabel H. Kittredge [signed]
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