17 May, 1926
My dear Miss Thomas:
I am delighted with your letter and your plans for the summer school. I am sure that it will go well if you take hold of it, keeping the summer work to the mornings, and perhaps not every morning at that, which seems to me a very good arrangement.
I shall be delighted to have the room which you suggest for Miss Smith and myself, but of course you must dispose of the other large rooms on the same floor without reference to me, except that I should be glad to have my friend Mrs. Ida M. Lovett, who is a Hull-House resident, have one of them, perhaps with my niece, Miss Mary Hulbert. She will probably write to you in regard to [accommodations], as she will arrive earlier than I shall.
I am sending your letter on to Miss Balch knowing that she will be as cheered about ↑by↓ it as I have been.
As to my lectures: I think two formal lectures a week, six in all, would be all I could attempt. I should like to keep the general topic "Newer Ideals of Peace," giving one day perhaps to the rising movement in India; another to China; another to the new scruple on the part of youth; and the new scruple on the part of women, beginning perhaps with a lecture on newer ideals of peace as affected by current science and current philosophy.
Thanking you for your kind letter and the material you sent me from the very interesting fete at Arles, I am,
Affectionately yours,
[written at the top of the page] ↑P.S. Please return Miss Thomas' material -- J. A.↓
Comments