My dear Miss Addams,
It was so pleasant to get a note from you, and I will certainly try to see Miss Maher and Miss Gallagher when they come to London. I have settled in the country, but perhaps I may persuade them to come down here for an afternoon, and they will be able to see my husband at the House of Commons. It always interests me to have a talk with American pioneers -- I wish I could have a talk with you, the greatest of American pioneers in social reform! Are you coming to England? If so, I wish you would come and spend a couple of days with us in our cottage in the country.
How kind of you to tell me that you like my book: it would be still kinder of you if you would, as you suggest, review it. We have a sort of feeling here in England that our country is rather at a discount in the U.S.A. at the present moment; the immense prosperity of the U.S.A. leads to a certain contempt for a country that has failed to settle down since the Great War and recover her place in the world.
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