NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SETTLEMENTS
August 16, 1922.
Dear Miss Addams:
We had a wonderfully fine conference at London. The quality of the thought was high and the relations established by the representatives from the different countries valuable and illuminating. A Continuation Committee which is to be composed of four delegates from each country was authorized. Three officers were elected. Mrs. Barnett was asked to serve as honorary chairman, you were acclaimed chairman and Captain Ellis was asked to serve as secretary. Your nomination and election was an absolutely spontaneous expression of the will of all delegates and the most delightful piece of sentiment in the entire conference. The American delegation was greatly honored by the election and we all trust that you will be willing to serve.
I am much disappointed that we were able to secure so little publicity on this side. There is a great deal of English publicity of a not very valuable sort. The London papers played up the title speakers, such as Lord [Milner] and Lord Astor. There was some French publicity. We made strenuous efforts to secure the presence of representatives of the Associated Press. I wrote an article which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Evening Post and the Boston Transcript. The Survey is publishing something about the conference.
The Conference Committee voted to publish a report of the Conference in a small volume of about one hundred pages which will contain a digest of the material under Headings such as labor, [page 2] education, etc. We will have opportunity to secure a certain amount of publicity through this pamphlet.
Mr. Woods has passed on to me your letter about Miss Sheepshanks. I should be glad to know of the topics most interesting to her. The program is very full and it would be well, I think, that her remarks dovetail into the main subject matter of the conference. The [cooperative] movement abroad in distribution and in housing is very impressive. A number of houses are starting [cooperative] enterprises. The other subject in Miss Sheepshanks' list which would interest delegates is, I think, experiments in housing. Have you seen the article which Miss Warbasse published in the American Review of Reviews for February? There is a most attractive account of [cooperative] homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Some of the late buildings of the London County Council have significance for us.
We are going to have a very good meeting on music with Mrs. Schenck of New York, Dr. Max Schoen of the Carnegie Institute, Mr. Zanzig of the Department of Music of Harvard and others present. We have never had the pleasure of hearing from Miss Smith at any of our conferences. Can you tell me how to reach Miss Smith and suggest any method of inducing her to attend the Conference?
I should be very glad of any suggestions which you may offer about the program or speakers for September. I placed your name on Sunday morning, thinking you would prefer the early part of the day rather than the afternoon or evening.
Faithfully yours,
Albert Kennedy. [signed]
↑The Boston papers are now asking for interviews about the International Conference. The Globe publishes one on Sunday. Can you manage a Chicago story?↓
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