May 10, 1921
My dear Miss Addams,
I hope you will be able to recall me as one of the many women who sat at your hospitable board in Chicago during the Progressive Convention. I am writing to you this morning at the suggestion of my friend, Miss Sophie Hart, of Wellesley College, who wants you to know what I think of a dear Japanese girl whom I have educated.
Matsuyo Takizawa, who is now in Wellesley College, came to me from Miss Tsuda's school in [Tokyo] and is one of the ablest and finest young women whom I have ever graduated from Dana Hall. I may add that she is one whom I hold in an intimate personal relation because of her remarkable mind and spirit. She has a concentrated purpose to serve her nation and fortunately she speaks extremely well. She can make an impromptu address that interests and holds large numbers, and as a young woman of promise I do not know her superior. On her own initiative she spent last summer living and working with the mill operatives at Lawrence, Massachusetts, thinking my home too luxurious for her best interests, and at Christmas time for the three weeks vacation she went to Washington and worked in the Children's Bureau, under Miss Julia Lathrop. She is deeply spiritual, very mental and charmingly gay, and I feel she [page 2] is already far on the way to a definite and prominent place in the sun of Japan. Miss Hart seems to want Matsuyo to go to the Congress at Vienna and I sincerely hope that any opportunity which will help her on her "high way" may open for her.
With most cordial remembrances of all your goodness to us, I am
Most admiringly yours,
Helen Temple Cooke. [signed]
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