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Dear Miss Blake:
Hearty thanks for you two letters of Mar. 23rd and 27th. I cannot tell you how thankful I am both for the W.I.L. and for [Madeleine] Doty that you are able to be in Geneva. What you write about the summer school pleases me very much. I agree that it is a good thing to have Prof. Barany and Prof. Langevin since our French and Swedish friends desire them, if it can be arranged without financial burden. Of course I am glad if Madame Duchêne will help.
Also it is not uncertain, but certain that I must stay at home this summer. This is not for say slight or personal reason, or anything that I can possibly brush aside. One of my sisters is not well and the circumstances are such that there is absolutely no question that I must be available throughout the summer. I may not be wanted all the time, but I must be available when I am wanted. Will you explain this to [Madeleine] and beg her to believe how dreadfully sorry I am. I feel like a "quitter," but in this conflict of duties the course seems quite clear Miss Matilda Widegren of Stockholm is very much interested in the summer school and I am sure will help you in any way that she can. She is really the person who has always been trying to get ↑the W.I.L.↓ to arrange a training school for peace workers. I think it would be very advantageous to correspond with her and get some of her ideas on the practical side.
I should hope that the English section might also contribute or suggest someone to talk about the practical business of office management, organization business, and propaganda. You would be surprised how little women in some continental countries know about these things. Another item that I forget to include that I forget to include is accounting, auditing ↓I mean that this never be arranged for, and the technique of auditing of course↓, and financial management generally in its general outline.
I have not arranged about any other speakers. It seems to me it would be confusing for me to try and do so from such a distance, but if there is any way in which I can be of help please let me know. [page 2]
One word of advice, do not fill the time too full, the time that is not arranged for in which the things that arise spontaneously can be put in, and above all, the time free for discussion and personal contact is infinitely precious.
About the scholarships about which you inquire, I know nothing about it, and can only pass on the question to Miss Addams. I am afraid there may be no money for it unless the finances of the school itself can be counted on to leave a margin for this purpose.
Our trip to Haiti was most interesting, and I believe useful also. I hope Miss Doty has already received a [brief] note of it. A longer one will follow later when the results of the trip shape up a little.
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