Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
SECTION FOR THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL OFFICE
125 East 37th Street, New York
Saturday Afternoon
Dear Miss Addams
I am back in the office trying to catch up. The work is growing and the staff is small but we have engaged Mrs Cothren for one month to work up the Annual Meeting and a second stenographer to help with the work. We are this week going to organize the New York women into a volunteer working committee. Of course it is much more fun to run after [one's] work and try to keep up than to be obliged to push. Thanks for your cordial letter and your belief in me. In a week or so I can send you a more detailed program of Annual Meeting.
If this enclosed file should be paid kindly O.K. it and return to Mrs Leach.
I think your letter to Miss Royds is just [page 2] right. Do you want me to write to the California members and our few Canadian members and try to have a meeting in California or somewhere on the Pacific Coast? I should think this was more of an International Matter but I am thoroughly interested in the idea and would like to help to set up such a three cornered conference.
Do you know Mrs Mary Andrews Conner of Los Angeles California? Mrs Spencer wants me to make an organizer of her. She will give her services and travel. Is she O.K.? We are very careful these days and aren't going to spoil the good feeling by getting in one wrong personality.
You caused us all to cry out with fear when you wrote of getting money for the International at the Annual Meeting. We are running that Meeting on faith, believing that the money to pay will be given. What shall we do if you take it? I have not arranged for food to be sent to Salzburg so I should say everyone who goes to Europe must pay for her [page 3] own food in advance.
To go back to your idea about a conference I think it is splendid and would like to know what you have done about it beside writing of the plan to Miss Royds.
The Washington Parade seems out of the question. No businessman will give the money (and we have gone into a [businessman's] committee very thoroughly) and no great numbers seem eager to march. That [Woman's] party ended in such a failure that it will be hard to get women back to Washington just now -- traveling is so expensive and that it takes a great deal to move a lot of men or women to one city just to parade. Miss Emma Wold was sent in by the Washington women to lurk over the ground and she sees for herself it won't go. I am so glad you will stay with me [page 4] in April. Mrs Leach wants you too. If at the last an uptown location will seem easier for you I will understand. But I want you always if it is possible.
Affectionately
Mabel H. Kittredge
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