Dear Miss Addams:
It is quite understandable that Mrs. Bowen should strike for the Atlantic audience -- and its aura; and I am glad she landed.
Her Chapter IX -- Suffrage and Stockholders -- has the most arresting title of the others, and I should be very glad to see that. The other chapters which sound promising are:
III -- for we so seldom have anything on church work, hospitals and nurses that is engaging.
V -- Hull House -- but I am afraid Mr. Hackett's article might stand in the way of that.
VII -- The Juvenile Protective Association -- because that work has been so essentially her own.
X -- Woman's City Club -- if it ↑she↓ dramatizes it in a way that would be interesting outside of Chicago; for so far as I know, such a story has not been told.
XII -- Women in Politics and Public Affairs -- if in some way she is able to give to her concluding chapter the "growing up with Chicago" spirit, which evidently caught the Atlantic on the first two.
You don't say so; but as the Atlantic has only taken two [installments], I imagine Mrs. Bowen is planning spring publication. In that case the most that we could handle would be two. As you have read the manuscript, won't you make the first sifting for us, asking her to send me perhaps four of your choice from which we might select one or two.
I just had Miss Wald on the telephone. She is having the Pethick Lawrences for dinner Friday evening, the 20th. And after that Mrs. Lawrence and Miss Wald's plan to go for a two weeks rest to the Battle Creek Sanatorium. I fancy her shuttling back and forth to Westport has not worked out entirely. I had hoped she would stay aloof until snow flew.
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