Dear Miss Addams --
It was most gracious of you to send me such a delightful etching, which I shall hang with pleasure because it is an interpretation of city-life, by a resident of Hull House & your gift. We have just freshened [page 2] the halls at "20" which cry for something significant against their too great austerity.
I hope that you are feeling better and stronger. We hear with great pleasure that you are to have a dinner tendered you by friends in Chicago -- and many of [page 3] us here wish that it might be made a national occasion. I would that it was in my power to wish you a year free of stupid misinterpretation and to be able to ensure you the wish. Yet I don't intend to wish favorably [page 4] for you, my self. Enough of some early Swedenborgian doctrine remains in me to make me feel that the great sufferers are those who believe in the good. I shall hope that your discomfort may bear its proper fruit of spiritual influence upon others & the community [page 5] and hasten the day when such blind misunderstanding will be impossible. I feel sure that it comes rather rapidly. While we have a small group of bitter anti pacifists here, they are alienating the great man [page 6] of sensible people among their own kind. In Boston the most reactionary group is made up of a small group ↑clique↓ of wealthy people, some of them intellectuals, who write to the papers constantly, call up their friends & in other ways act as points of irritation. But they [page 7] have less & less influence because they so often cry wolf without cause.
I had a letter from Mrs Barnett yesterday stirring us up about the Bunker Hill project. I am trying to induce Mr Cram, Mr Sturgis & others in it: in the belief that if the matter could have a wide advertising it [page 8] might very well appeal to the few scarce persons who could indulge themselves by contributing.
Is there any chance of your coming East in February. There are many matters to come before the Executive Committee. Please forgive this long letter and believe me
Very faithfully yours
Albert Kennedy
1/5/1927
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