January 17, 1927.
Dear Miss Addams:
I am asking Miss Sears to deliver this letter which partially expresses our feelings as an Association of what you have done in behalf of family life through your profound recognition of the principles of genuine democracy. You, more than anyone else, have been able to give a vision of the aspirations of youth maintained even in our huge congested cities. At the same time you have done so, you have given youth a share in the heritage of the older generation. I always think of Hull House as an interpreter, through the medium of its Labor Museum, of the heritage brought by the older generation to this country, -- a heritage which would have been lost to your neighborhood.
We, in our field, are realizing that we must draw more and more on the lessons which you have taught, carrying into the case work study of the individual a comprehension of the neighborhood in its bearing of each human life.
Faithfully yours,
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