My dear Dorothy Detzer:
May I thank you for your letter of April 5th which contained so much of what I wanted to know. I am much impressed with the activity of the National Office.
I am making out a circular similar to the one we used two years ago printing it however in blue and making an appeal for money. We are having 10,000 of these, and I am taking care of the expense as my contribution. I will send you 1000 or 1500 that they may be used during the International Conference. I will send one with a personal letter of appeal to each one of our U.S. members, and of course will do what I can in the way of collecting money independently of that. I believe people are getting a little tired of these appeals for Congresses and I am not sure we can get a great deal of money.
We telegraphed you this morning that we would send ↑7000 or 8000↓ the blue envelopes and ask you to address them to all of the American members of the W.I.L. I hope you have an addressograph so this will not be difficult. I would like the addressed envelopes returned to me and we will fill in the circular with the personal letter and send them out from here. As the appeal is so personal I am sure to is better to post them from Chicago and to have the money sent in here. I am assuming that every U.S. member had a copy of the circular announcing the Fifth International Congress and International Summer School, and am therefore not putting that in the envelopes. The 400 which you sent me I hope to use for people who are not members of the W.I.L. and did not therefore receive them in the regular course of events. We will get help in the folding etc, from the Chicago Branch here. [page 2]
I ought to have the envelopes addressed and returned as promptly as possible so we can get them out I hope in good time before the Washington meeting. I am accepting this service ↑of addressing↓ from the National of course to the International. But the postage, printing, etc will be a contribution ↑from here.↓
Will you let me know how the preliminary efforts ↑meetings↓ with the F.O.R., etc are coming on, I should have to know a few days in advance if I am to get to Washington for ↑them.↓
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