Dear Miss Addams:--
Your note gave me more pleasure than anything for a long time, and the reading of your book has brought the most satisfactory hours that I have had since the Armistice.
The note in which you spoke of Princeton, Illinois, suddenly called up the life of the little town which in many ways was good and certainly was good fun.
This last book I have admired in some ways as I did “A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil.” In each of them you handle the most difficult problems, and I do not know of anyone who could have dealt with either of them in a way both so fine and so thorough. The “Peace and Bread" has moved me more than anything else you have written because, among other things, it helps one to get clear again the sense of fellowship.
Your words and guidance have always been a great help, but during the war and since, for some of us at least, they have helped more than ever before. What Lincoln wrote about the “costly sacrifice” I believe ought to be true.
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