My dear Jane Addams:
This is a very belated letter to go to you and cannot in any way express how much I have been thinking of you these last days.
Your telegram was such a [shock]. It was curious when Miss Balch and I had breakfast together and read it over that I at once said to her "Miss Addams has fallen down stairs." This was before we had any details -- simply that you had been hurt. Miss Balch said, "No, I think it must be a taxi," but afterwards I found that Grace Abbott had said the same thing so apparently two Hull House residents subconsciously [knew] of the danger of Hull House stairways.
I do hope you are better and are not suffering. We missed you very much at the meeting on Armistice Day and particularly so at the Mass Meeting at night. Robert Lovett, of course, was beautifully eloquent in speaking of you and the hall thundered with applause for quite a long time when he spoke of the Mass Meeting sending you a message of sympathy.
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