Strand Hotel.
My dear Mrs Lovett --
I think the lecture courses are of the very best we have ever had at Hull-House and I do hope that it is coming out well in attendance as I should think that the current events [illegible] would be crowded to the roof. I am very grateful for letters from H.H. and find myself restless when they are too long delayed, but I do not know why I find it so difficult to write. I imagine it is due to the astounding variety of new impressions, one of which waylays the other in rapid succession. We have been hurrying a little to keep ahead of the heat which we are told may envelope us at any moment [although] so far we have never really suffered from it. Fortunately at Ceylon we will be so near the equator that nothing more can be done about it and from then on will be going steadily north until we reach [Peking], so that we will take a more leisurely pace. [page 2]
The Nationalist movement is of course with us everywhere not least in Burma -- and [although] we have been entertained by the English governors in almost every town we have visited we have by no means failed to see a good deal of the other side. The woman's movement is absolutely fascinating -- the Burma women have an equal vote with men and are most energetic in mission and politics. We saw them just after we left a Purdah party in Calcutta where the women seemed to be from another world -- they are always asking me to talk about "social welfare" -- they have already learned much of the [pattern] -- and [cooperate] with the English women in some genuine work.
I do hope that all goes happily at Hull-House, and that the art school and [illegible] matters are flourishing. Almost everywhere we find attempts to revive "[Indian] arts and industries" some of them quite charming. The missions are [setting] them up with a good deal of spirit. Burma is full of American Baptists, more than 200 of them in the country. The Am. Assn. in Rangoon gave us a reception and we met others in the colleges & schools. One respects them very much on the educational side certainly and in their [illegible] reports in the stronghold of Buddhism.
Please give my love to Nancy Jane, whom I am quite homesick to see.
I am always devotedly yours Jane Addams
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