Catherine Elizabeth Marshall to Jane Addams, February 28, 1927

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2 LINNELL DRIVE
HAMSTEAD WAY
N.W. 11

Feb. 28 (written in bed)

Dearest Miss Addams,

I meant to have sent you a long letter by this mail -- indeed I have been wanting to write to you ever since I returned from Geneva at Xmas, but life since then has been [page 2] one long struggle with illness -- my mother's & my own. Flu (4 times!) & phthisis & supposed jaundice & frightful headaches which [illegible] [write or read nothing in public for days together?] But [in] ↑[illegible]↓ [illegible] [towards?] Mde Duchêne. I [page 3] met & put in some hard work preparing for the Liège meeting. I hope you approve of the Agenda? and I hope to hear from M. Doty that you have written her your views quite fully about our suggestions re finances, etc. & your [page 4] ideas for the Honolulu Conference.

I have 2 memoranda in hand, on Disarmament & Economic policy, [illegible] as a basis for work of the L of N Congress on those subjects. Have had much valuable help from members of the Secretariat & [I.L.O.?] and the British Section did some very good work on Mandates. [page 5] Simultaneously ↑& in concert with Geneva Council↓ it [illegible] agitation [illegible] and has taken a strong line about China. I am looking forward to hearing what the U.S.A. Section is [saying] about Mexico & Nicaragua.

All plans going well for the Summer School. It will be really [illegible] [good?] I [page 6] think, & we hope for some practical outcomes.

I am glad to know you are so whole-hearted about [appointing] M. Sheepshanks as our new Int. Sec. & approve of our proposed increased expenditures in that [location] & for [illegible].

Please forgive this dreadful scrawl, written in bed, as I don't want to miss [page 7] this mail. I am sorry this is not a more adequate letter.

I hope you are well? I missed meeting your niece through having to stay in & nurse my mother. I hear she is a very charming person. [page 8] I did see Miss Johnson of Baldwin College in one of my lucid intervals.

With very great regret for being such a broken reed for W.I.L.P.F. and with all my love to you.

Yours affectionately

Catherine Marshall.