Dear Miss Addams
I do love having your book from you & thank you warmly for it. When we meet I shall ask you to write my name in it. I like it very much indeed & think it will be a record we shall all be glad to have. You have managed to convey the moral suffering of a person isolated in time of stress without appealing for pity. Your description of the Ford episode is full of humor & we shall be glad to place your sketch of President Wilson beside all the others. Walter Weyl's still seems to me to be the best of those others.
I enjoy the New Republic, which I also owe to you, & the "House" has it after me. We are slowly crawling up in attendances & consequently in "takings" & I am somewhat anxiously watching the race between time & our dwindling funds. If we can survive a year, I think we shall be a going concern. But in London a small new venture is almost invisible.
We have just had a Russian meeting & a Deputation of the House & so on. People are spiritually tired. I wonder if you too find that so. [page 2] Many people have dropped doing anything & ↑with regard to↓ of some others, I am constantly reminded of Swinburne's sentence -- "We feed on hopeless hope."
I expect nothing much of Genoa. George's is a deathbed repentance. He would do good now when he has no power.
I was glad to hear of your venture in getting those three women over to speak & I hope Mrs Robinson will make good.
We are having an Easter school & it rather looks as if we were going to have it empty! It will be dreadful if that is so. But people are all sitting tight at home, having no money.
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