Dearest of Friends --
I came home very poorly, & have been in bed most of the time with severe neuritis & sciatica -- and undergoing wearying rubbings [etc.] -- wd do good I hope. Now I find myself able to face the Bunker Hill land problem. You ask if it wld be possible to raise a [page 2] sum either given or substantially guaranteed, that [illegible] wld be adequate to keep the builders off while the rest of the money is being raised.
What an admirable idea! Dear! You shd have been a big business woman, & brought public spirit into manufacturing -- But now!
I have seen the people chiefly concerned and find that they think that if £6,000 were paid down it would be a guarantee for the £11-400 for at which the land [page 3] is valued. I can meet £3000 of this if America wld meet the other £3,000. This wld give us say 1 year to raise the rest. This has not come before the [owners], only their chief men I think it wld be accepted.
Oh! dear! What a small sum it wld be for the big packing -- & sending -- by-post-every-thing-you-can-want-from-a-Home-to-admirable form, that you took us to luncheon with.
Will you see what you [page 4] can do to carry out your own suggestion [which] I think is admirable. Prof [Farnam], Mr Kennedy, Mrs Simkhovitch, Mrs Veiller, Miss McLaughlin, Miss [McDowell], Mrs Bradford, Mr. [Bridges] all write with invigorating sympathy -- but dear it needs a Jane to gather their threads together into a rope -- But it is worth while -- For 100s of 1000s will see it & learn of Peace.
Yours with deep devotion
Henrietta O Barnett [page 5]
PS.
I have prepared this & am sending it in my letters, so as to save writing so much.
You will I know receive any thing any one sends, & inspire them to inspire others.
Oh! dear! I do wish the Holy Ghost were more visible.
H O B
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