On train Friday [Eve]
My dear Miss Addams:
I am on my way from Washington & the train is very shaky, but I will try to scribble a few things on some leaves of my note book. I enclose what Mrs Catt was reported as saying about you. I wish I had heard it, and wish I had known when I was talking with her that she had said anything about the W.I.L. I am going to write her about the latter and will send you a copy. One thing I want to tell her, just casually (!), you know, is that five of her six women speakers on the program are our members, and one presiding officer.
Dr Hamilton was ↑just as↓ fine as we expected her to be. She will tell you what she said about pacifism, and how she told the [page 2] Conference that she was a pacifist.
The enclosed letter from Mrs Catt to you I have had very carefully stowed away and should have returned to you before -- Thank you for sending it. So glad to have ↑seen↓ it.
Dorothy Detzer is doing such a good many things but I realize that as time goes on ↑there are↓ many things which she can not do. I told her that after Feb. the engagement with her would be month by month, and probably [run] until after ↑[through]↓ the annual meeting, and then there might be a change. She says she is eager to learn and to do her job well. She wants to prove to us that she is capable of doing the thing permanently. Of course our having Jeannette Rankin in the field has made [page 3] a great hit. I do hope all our ↑plans for↓ activity will justify themselves. Mrs Doty is taking the editing of the Bulletin at $50 per copy as you will see by the minutes.
This train is too dreadful. I can not write more.
Very lovingly
Hannah C H
PS
I think I must add that we find D. D.'s judgment and sense about things very good so far. Mrs Post thinks she is better prepared than Miss Woods for the job when the latter first came but I doubt that!
Wish you could have seen Dr Hamilton bristle up when some one happened to say in her presence "did you hear how Mrs Catt defended Jane Addams this morning?" "Well," said Dr H who is Mrs C etc that she should dare to try etc etc!! (Over) [page 4]
I have just [reread] Mrs Catt's letter to you and in view of what she said in it I can not imagine how she could have referred to W.I.L. in the Conference!
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