↑Would you send this on to Mrs. Cheever 557 Boylston St Boston as it would interest her & it takes so long to write.↓
Dearest J.A.
I wish this were reaching you in time to bring you Easter greetings. I send them in [thought].
It is many days that I have been meaning to write to tell you with what absorbed interest I read your [bookt] book. Mlle Gobat is now at it. I am writing Macmillan to send us some copies for sale here. We had very good success in selling Women at the League.
It is curious to me how I moved through all [those war days] understanding, as it now seems to me, so little and now holding it so chaotically in my mind. It was the following your untangling of it all and your interpretations of what the various peace moves were aiming at that interested me enormously for one thing.
Then the analysis of the mental processes and states that we went through [page 2] in standing against the current. Of course each [wiser] history would be somewhat different. I fear I suffered less from compunction in going against the group-will, depended more on contact with other pacifists to steady me, and perhaps wobbled more at that, and was more perplexed than you seem to have been over the poser -- “but what if Germany wins, now that Russia is not, and by means of [militarized] schools creates a [prussianized] population through all Western Europe (France & Belgium). After a long period of degradation will there not be ultimately bitterer violent conflict?”
Then all the “bread” part is very fine I am only gradually and partially taking it in.
What steps are you taking to have the book spread abroad? Is it very well reviewed? Mrs. Schreiber-Krieger asked if I could have a copy sent to
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