Sunday Feby 13th 27
To Miss Jane Addams
My dear Friend,
It was not possible for me to reply to your letter about an American holding the next Barnett Fellowship until I had seen the Chairman of the Comtee.
Owing to illness and [page 2] an awful fog that has dislocated arrangements, it is only this afternoon that Mr T. Hancock Nunn & I have been able to meet. He is the chairman, but we both feel that we cannot speak positively without the Comtee's approval.
However, as far as we two are concerned, we think that the next Fellow [page 3] should come from America, & whoever you send will receive a warm welcome.
It is however only right to tell you that lately the Trustees have been negotiating with Wadham College Oxford -- (which was Canon Barnetts college) & whose warden, the recent Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, holds him in affectionate memory, -- [mostly?] a view of seeing if Wadham and Barnett House could now become more closely connected. This very day the Vice Chancellor of London University, Sir Wm Beveridge, has gone to stay with Dr Wells, but I feel sure that we all are so anxious to work with America, & we all are so appreciative of your rapid & cordial action in raising so much money for the Fellowship that [page 4] every effort will be made to meet your wishes.
It might be possible that the man you send might be [accommodated] in Wadham College, & so while making his research come into intimate knowledge of the University life; & as the terms are so short, & [weekends] so [page 5] long, he could combine residence in Whitechapel to a ↑obtain↓ that personal touch with poverty or industrial problems, which the Trustees consider that the Fellow should have.
I hope, my loved friend, that this letter will tell you that we have only been hindered by illness & circumstances, & that Mr Nunn & I are as keen as ever on the Fellowship, and what it may [page 6] [even?] bring America & England into closer and more sympathetic understanding of each other.
Do not forget that my husband earned at 22 as a tutor in order to visit the United States, & that he even held that her [great] qualities entitled her to lead -- in social reforms. I am always yours with my love
Henrietta O Barnett
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