Dear J A
I am cabling as you suggest though I think I should have perhaps said yes also to the first.
Will you not write M Z D about formulating the Larsen Jahn proposal as I think V. G will probably leave it over for her.
I think M Z D has never had any copy of the budget of the Geneva [house?] nor so far as I know did anyone talk this over with her. V. G has the budget [page 2] outline & may do so. I think it would be fine if you could send her (M D) in black & white your understanding of all this and also reply to her & V G. as to her & the Irish query about the Congress finances.
I am just going on (that is, I go on Monday) to [the?] Swarthmore for our Board [Meeting]. I have been swamped & have done nothing for the WIL. [page 3] so that Edith Hilles' plan works not only to inhibit D. D.
I had a nice call on Mrs & Mr Mead but I can't say it produced any new wisdom -- she is to speak at the Detroit meeting on military sanctions in the [illegible] plan or some such topic.
I am reading [Gwynn's] History of Ireland with some interest. I was entirely ignorant, in any connected way, of this sad story. [page 4]
He seems to me to tell it well and in a fair spirit but it is too detailed and implies too much previous knowledge of Irish family names & titles. [page 5]
I am happy to say Annie seems to be gaining but I feel terribly shut off as she sent away her nurse and does not write, nor read letters. Alice drove over & saw her last Sunday and she is boarding at country place half regular boarding house half a refuge for convalescents where she had often gone for a holiday.
Dr & Mrs [Vittredge?] who run it are fond of her and I feel she [page 6] is under ideal conditions.
Unscrambling our [omelet] here is complicated as we don't know when nor really if my brother's family will move in nor what things Annie has decided nor where she has packed them away. I expect to move out Nov 1 & am busy sorting out a life time's accumulation.
Devotedly always
Emily G. B.
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