GENÈVE, Sept 12, 1925
Dear friend,
I have had and am still having the most wonderful time. I have been in London, Edinburgh, Heidelberg, Stockholm, Paris, [Copenhagen], and now in Geneva, the heart of the world. Spoken at 5 Int'l Conferences and had numberless valuable private conferences at which I learned much. This experience, would have meant more I feel sure, for the American [interest] if I could have had it ten years ago. But for me it is my old-age [scheming?] for old-age work. I have had so much to do, -- with Lady Aberdeen's Section of the Child Labor Congress, and in attendance in the Conference of Private ↑"[illegible]"↓ organizations which Miss Breckinridge and Miss Edith Abbott attended that I have only had time to go to our W.I.L. Headquarters twice. [page 2] Only yesterday learned of Miss Glücklich's sad bereavement. Shall go up again this coming week. As I have always been an ardent Pro-Leaguer I am having a thrilling experience here. All have been most kind to me. I have had three invitations to the big luncheons at the International Club and have seen Dame Rachel Crowdy quite intimately and am in touch most pleasantly with Mrs Woodrow Wilson who is at her charming villa for the season. All the world is heading up to Geneva. How I wish I could do something [worthwhile] to help our country enter the League. [page 3] The charming [Romanian] M. [Contzesco], Member of Council said at yesterday's luncheon that while he would not presume to advise the United States he would express the great desire he felt that the country to which his own owed such a debt of gratitude "would enter its own House which President Wilson had so helped to build."
I feel that we all have much to do in the U.S.A. to make people see that the organization of the world for the substitution of Law for War is already begun. It is not waiting for Sen. Borah's leadership! I hope to see you soon after I return to my [page 4] home. Don't fail, please, to let me know in advance when you are coming to New York.
I go to Paris Sunday the 20th. Sail on "New Amsterdam" the 23rd. Reach N.Y. the 2nd of Oct.
I believe I told you I have my own little [capt?], and am pledged to use it on the headquarters of much work next winter. I shall hope to see you soon as I [may?] and hope also that [Madeleine] Doty will arrive here before I leave.
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