July 17th, 1925.
My dear Miss Addams,
I am so glad to hear from you, even on the subject of lecturing in Chicago. I am planning to go to Canada in October, and if it is at all possible I should like to go into the United States and pay one more visit to some of my old surviving friends amongst whom you are one, but I am trying to avoid ordinary lecturing as I am not going on a lecture tour. Some, I dare say, I shall have to take, and I am being pressed by an [organization] known as the Institute of American Meat Packers, connected with Chicago University to lecture on Education and Commerce, which is one of my [favorite] topics. I wonder if on receipt of this you would send me a cable with a single word "No" if lecturing to that body would really be infra dig, or would put me in a compromised position? I understand that it has secured Mr. Frank O. Lowden, formerly Governor of Illinois, and candidate for the [page 2] Republican nomination for President of the United States, Mr. Charles M. Schwab, Chief Executive Officer of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Mr. Walter S. Gifford, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, to speak under its auspices. I understand that it will in reality be a University lecture, though the name of the Institute of American Meat Packers will be associated with it. If it is alright, do not bother to do anything.
I do hope that you are having good health, and that if I am fortunate enough to be able to get to Chicago and accept your kind invitation to stay at Hull-House, as I certainly shall do, I shall find you fit and strong.
With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
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