Dear Miss Graves,
Miss Addams has been sent South for rest and health and has asked me to write to you for her. And I am so glad to see this letter and have news of you. Your idea of going now to see Africans is very interesting. I was in Haiti last spring with a committee and will send you a copy of our 180 p. report now in press. I wish you would go ↑there and↓ to Liberia -- or would be ↑wish it↓ were it not for the tropical disease there ↑in Liberia↓. Do read Dr. Leys Kenya (East Africa). He is a striking personality and the book is readable and profoundly suggestive. (Hogarth press London; paper -- covered edition {I think} 4 s. 6 d.) He concedes no racial inferiority after 16 years in tropical disease work in Africa I believe. [page 2]
I hope you will find the work you want in New York. There is rather a boom in teaching for adults and there are seas of people needing to learn English. I suggest your writing to Mabel Kittredge ↑Washington Square N.Y.↓ who knows N.Y. public school system and asking her. Miss Wald (265 Henry St) could send you lists of organizations on the East Side carrying on such teaching of English. I think you should also write Dr ↑Stephen↓ Duggan International Institute of Education, Fifth Ave.
I do not believe the W.I.L. will have any paid work at all to offer. You might try the three N.Y. women's peace groups but I fear the same would be true of them. I certainly trust you will continue an active cooperating member of the W.I.L. It is still weaker than it should be but in Miss Detzer we have an admirable secretary and the Washington office is a [center] of peace as well as of activity. Miss Doty will be back next year, and she hopes [editing] ↑to be↓ editing the W.I.L paper. Etta Eleanor Brannan is the sec'y of the small NY. group. [page 3]
Miss Addams had a very bad attack of Angina Pectoris after the Dublin Congress [illegible] and is allowed to do only about 50% of her normal amount and not permitted to live at Hull House, which she finds hard. She has been horribly attacked ↑by Legion men and others↓ with applause in unexpected quarters, and it hurts her. On the other hand a great civic dinner was given in her honor in Chicago on Jan [20] (1400 guests, 1000 or more unable to get tickets) telegrams from President Coolidge alluding with great cordiality to her work for peace and [page 4] international good will, from Governors of N.Y. & Mass & hosts of others. It was a wonderful occasion ↑(not because of this & political gentlemen but for all it really meant to J A herself).↓ I was there I am happy to say.
I am well, living in Wellesley, attending monthly ↑national↓ WIL board meetings all over the place and doing what I can for our cause. Here the threat of war with Mexico [illegible] (lightened now but not surely averted) and the inexcusable doings in Nicaragua, together with anxiety over the situation in China occupy the foreground.
With most cordial good wishes yours
Emily G. Balch
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