WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
My dear Marcet;
Thank you so much for your good letter which quite [reassures] me as to your health concerning which I was becoming quite agitated. Please don't send any valentines, my reference to Christmas had to do only with messages and not with "presents" as I am sure you know. I haven't seen any letter to Esther and had not heard ↑from you↓ for an age.
Alas I won't be here this summer when you come for the dancing, we are having our W.I.L. meeting in Dublin in July and I am also attending a international meeting of Settlements in Paris July 1st to 5th. Mary Linn and the two girls are going over "students steerage" on the Dutch Boat Volendam sailing June 19th and I am going first class on the same boat. Mary Smith who goes over in April meets me in Paris and we go on to Ireland together. I am taking Mary Hulbert with us or rather she goes below with the others and emerges in France. She has majored in French at the U. of C. where she graduates in June, she hopes to teach French and there is nothing like a summer in Paris to give a French teacher éclat. We leave her there for two ↑months↓ and she meets us in Switzerland in Sept. so that there is a family exodus as it were. When is your European summer coming off?
I am doing my own typing on this, very poorly I am afraid but easier to read than my hand of writ. I was [illegible] ↑delighted↓ with your report of the children and am quite homesick to see them. ↑Love to the family Always and forever your loving Aunt↓
Jane Addams [signed]
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