June 18, 1923.
My dear Miss Addams,
Welcome to Kobe! You have been a very much heralded person and you will probably have all sorts of people sitting on the doorstep of the hotel waiting to ask you your impressions of Japan and what [the] country most needs in the way of [social] reform. I won't sit on the hotel steps [but] we would be so pleased if you and Miss Smith could take dinner with us quite informally Thursday evening after your talk at the Woman's Club. You could come here directly for we are only about three blocks from [the] hotel where you will speak. It will be [but] a small party of eight including yourself and if you can come I shall try & get two or three Japanese women whom [you] might like to meet.
Mr. Kagawa, the socialist, labor leader [page 2] and welfare worker is here in Kobe and recently has been having some trouble with his eyes so that he has not been able to [go] to Germany as he had planned. If you would like to visit his work, I would be glad to take you there Thursday morning and if he is not in the hospital you might [be] able to meet him.
Will you call me at the Association [Thursday] morning to let me know about [dinner] that night and whether I can [be] of any service to you in going about the city? I had expected to have some Association work to do on Thursday but owing [to the] sickness of some of the members [it is] called off, so I am at your service [if] you wish.
Cordially yours,
Grace McGregor
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