Jane Addams to Madeleine Zabriskie Doty, January 4 and 5, 1926

My dear [Madeleine] Doty:

Your nice long letter came today and I am very grateful. There are several things I will answer later but I am writing at once in some alarm over the date of the meeting.

The International Federation of Settlements holds its conference in Paris from the 1st of July to the 5th, and I could not possibly not be there. I hope therefore, very much we can [postpone] the meeting of the W.I.L. Congress until a little later. I wish it might be [postponed] until the 10th.

Also please give us the approximate date of the summer school. Everyone is pleased at the idea of having it at Gland. We might be obliged to have rather a small Congress at Ireland and contemplate ↑plan↓ having a summer school with Conference features, but of all that we can write later. I am most anxious however about the date. I do not like to try to change the settlement date as it has been fixed upon after a great deal of correspondence back and forth ↑for two years.↓

[Written up left margin] ↑P.S. We should get out something [like?] the [enclosed] Suffrage material as soon as possible plan the dates of the Summer School.↓ [page 2]

My dear [Madeleine] Doty,

I am adding more to [my] letter of last night; first; of course the international fund means to take care of the general congress expenses such as halls [etc.] I would not encourage the Irish ladies to too big an affair. Why would it be bad to run into the Horse Fair, I do not ↑believe↓ many ↑of our↓ people will go to the big hotels and the fair might give us a hearing from people from all over Ireland.

Second; I do not think that the ↑Geneva↓ expenses should go up even for praiseworthy efforts too much, until the new budget can be made at the Dublin Congress, thus sharing responsibility.

Third; I did not know about the subsidy to the French Section, I thought it had been called a small [salary] to Mde [Jouve] for her permanent work on the Summer Schools. I quite agree with you that it should not appear on the books in its present form. I was not at the meeting I think when it was voted but of [course] the same committee would have to deal with it.

[Manley] Hudson told me the other day of various Summer Schools in Geneva. I am much impressed with [your] arrangements at Gland and I think that ↑if↓ we get ourselves there for a fixed period that the poor transportation will not matter. We ↑can↓ take [things] at Geneva later.

I am so glad that you had your "tour" to the various Sections, I suspect that it is the most useful thing that you can possibly do.

Dorothy Detzer was here when your letter came and we talked over the publication. I think you are not fair to her abilities. She [seems] to have a lot of executive and has her troubles with the U.S.A. postal regulations which of course she cannot modify. I suspect our troubles are over and that it is now smooth sailing, however so far as that is concerned.

I am so sorry about the date. I cannot possibly leave Paris until after the fifth and I hope it will not be too hard to change.

[written up left margin] ↑P.S. I much approve of having Anne Zueblin -- Give her my love.↓