Albert Joseph Kennedy to Jane Addams, March 14, 1921

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NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SETTLEMENTS

20 Union Park, Boston, Mass.

March 14, 1921.

Miss Jane Addams,
800 South Halsted St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Miss Addams:

I enclose a transcript of the minutes of the Executive Meeting held in New York last month. You will notice that you are asked with Miss Ellen Coolidge to serve as delegates upon an International Committee to consider the wisdom of forming an International Federation of Settlements. I hope very much that you will be able to serve.

Have you heard further from the Educational Settlements' Association? I have been rather afraid that Mr. Elcock and his associates might seek to monopolize the international organization. For that reason it has seemed best to ask someone like Mrs. Barnett to call together a group to consider the advisability of forming an international association, the persons to be invited, the character of the articles of the association and the functions to be carried on. I have not yet heard from Mrs. Barnett on this matter but expect a letter within a week.

It was suggested in New York that you serve with Dr. Elliott and Mr. Woods on a committee to outline what settlements in this country feel to be a desirable type of international organization. I hope that Dr. Elliot by this time has seen you and talked the matter over. If not, I will ask him to get in touch with you at the earliest possible moment.

I also enclose an outline to serve as a basis for making up a program to be followed at Waukegan. I can think of no one better fitted than Mr. Pond to lead a discussion on settlement building. There are a number of houses which are thinking about bricks and mortar and I think such a group might gain a great deal from the right kind of statement and discussion.

I am also hopeful that Miss Smith can be persuaded to tell us about the [page 2] results of her long experience in the music school. Will you speak to them or would you prefer that I approach each of them directly?

I hope that you are to be in the East in the near future so that it may be possible to discuss some of these things directly.

Sincerely yours,

Albert Kennedy [signed]