The Federated Press
Aug. 8, 1922
BERLIN [stamped]
My dear Miss Addams:
For some time I have been wanting to write you and to thank you for having had the publishers send me a copy of your splendid peace book. I have been on the jump so much -- to Italy, to Bavaria, to various ↑other↓ parts of Germany, to Switzerland -- that my personal correspondence suffered terribly. Please accept this belated expression of my gratitude as though I had written you immediately upon receipt of the volume.
You may be surprised, after the emphatic remark I made to you last February, to hear that I have married again. At that time, I did not know my own mind. Now I know that it was the best thing that I could possibly have done. The children are immensely attached to their new mother and their four-year old sister, and as for Hilde and myself, we, too, are supremely happy after the affliction through which each of us had passed two years previously.
The other day, I was about to make a call upon Frau Minna Cauer to whom, I believe, you introduced me in 1915 (or was it Rosika Schwimmer?), I picked up an afternoon paper and read that she had just passed away. I thought you would be interested in the [page 2] enclosed tribute to her life and work. The paper bearing the news of her death came as my wife and I were discussing my going to her!
These are anxious days for Germany. I have just written an article, "The Panic of Despair," recording the wild orgy of purchasing that ensued when the most recent catastrophic drop in the mark came. People were buying anything and everything, without rhyme or reason -- anything to get rid of the worthless paper marks!
The other day I saw John Haynes Holmes off to [Russia]. He tells me that he will speak at the international peace school near Milan. I wonder whether this means that you shall be over in Europe this summer? In that case I certainly hope that you will come to Berlin. I shall try to get in touch with Dr. Salomon on this point, as she will no doubt know for certain about this.
With kindest regards to you, who are now as before one of my spiritual mentors, I am,
Most sincerely yours,
Louis P. Lochner [signed]
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