My dear Jane [Addams]: --
Just a line because I understand from Katherine Blake that she has written you and Miss Balch I am ill. It is just a cold and now I am much better, so don't worry about me.
I am disappointed to find that Katherine Blake does not want to shoulder any responsibility for the summer school. She says she is too old & tired to do any but small jobs. A cable from Emily Balch says she is not coming over. That does rather leave me in the lurch about the summer school for it is too much responsibility for one person, namely me, to run the Congress, the Summer School, this office & Pax.
I have suggested a small committee -- Duchene, Gobat, Mlle Rolland & Miss Thomas -- to run the school, but they will need a paid worker. I have told Emily Balch, I will raise $100 here if she can raise $200 for a paid worker. There is a Miss Von Eltz here (American) worked in Julia Lathrop's office, who has made herself invaluable whom we might get.
We will have to have someone here all the time I am in Ireland etc. for Katherine Blake plans to go to Ireland & also travel. But we will work all this out don't you worry. On the whole every thing is going well and I am developing a thick skin, and [page 2] learning to laugh in the midst of difficulties. We all take things too hard. We will all have a very interesting and profitable time at both Dublin and Gland so why worry???
I know you'll like my Pacifist Dream in the April "Pax."
I wish I could inject some "laughing gas" in these darn women pacifists, it would help a lot- Much love to you always
Roger doesn't say a word about coming over this summer, but talks about coming next fall with a party of students.
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