7 March, 1925.
My dear Miss Addams:-
Since seeing the announcement a few days ago in the papers that you were about to arrive in Mexico I have been eagerly watching to learn when you would come and where you were to stay, that I might write to you.
You do not know me, of course, but you are known to all of us, and I did have the honor of being present to you some years ago at a Suffrage Congress in Washington. You do, I think, however, know my sister, Elsie Hill of the Women’s Party, and also a member [of] the League for Peace and Freedom.
I am hoping that Pachuca is or can be included in your itinerary, and if so, that you may be our guest here at the school.
I am Directora of “Colegio Hijas de Allende,” a school of some three hundred Mexican girls, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss Landázuri can tell you something of our work, [though] I think she does not know this school, but is acquainted with our schools in Mexico City and Puebla, and is a friend of Miss Helen Murray, formerly in Mexico City, whose friend I have the privilege of being also.
Our older girls, most of them from way out in the pueblos, are preparing to go to our Normal School at Puebla to fit themselves to be teachers, and it would be a wonderful help and inspiration to them and broadening of their horizon to see and to hear you.
I hope that it may be our great good fortune that you can come this way.
Clara M. Hill [signed]
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