Geneva, Oct. 30th, 1925.
Dear Miss Addams,
This is an entirely informal and unofficial letter in which I want to tell you how very grateful I am for your kindness which made it possible for me to have the unique experience of the three years I have stayed here. The more I [realize] the great difference between American and European methods of work, the more I feel how unsatisfactory my work here must have been for you and the more I appreciate your indulgence of accepting it. Never before have I so clearly understood what a heavy burden we are imposing on you by the quite insufficient material support we are able to provide for our League; and I feel terribly uneasy about it, because I do not see the possibility of much improving the situation. [page 2]
Madeleine Doty hopes to stir up the European Sections and I wish she could do it with good result; but I am not very hopeful about it, because the wealthy people in Europe do not feel, like there in America, the obligation to do something for the community, and our sections consist chiefly of poor intellectuals who can hardly afford to buy the literature on their own special subject of study, and shrink before every request for their material help.
I shall talk over the financial situation of our League carefully with the Hungarian Section as soon as I arrive in Budapest. Perhaps we succeed in finding some way of proceeding which could be used afterwards in the other countries too.
I hope Madeleine Doty will soon get used to the European atmosphere and succeed in freshening it up with some American "pep." I hope I shall be able to be of some use in future, although I do not yet know what possibilities of work I shall find.
With the very heartiest thanks
devotedly yours Vilma Glücklich
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