My dear Miss Addams:
This enclosed postcard may serve to remind you of Madame Kaji Yajima who visited Hull House on her way to London in [1920], and whom you graciously helped to entertain a year later when she was on her way to the Conference for the Limitation of Armaments in Washington, D.C. It was my privilege to accompany her as her interpreter. May I add further that I am one of the great host all around the world who shared in spirit that feast of appreciation that took place recently in your honor in Chicago.
I am now writing in behalf of Miss [Tami] Yamamuro, who graduates this spring from the University of California, after previously graduating from the Union Christian College for Women in Tokyo.
Miss Yamamuro wishes to go to Chicago for some further work in sociology. She has repeatedly expressed the desire, here in our home where she is staying, to live for a time in Hull House. She could arrive in Chicago about the middle of May, and would like to be in Hull House until the beginning of the Summer School of Chicago University.
Her father is one of the most honored leaders in social service in Japan. Dr. Robert E. Park of the University is personally acquainted with him. Her mother was a close friend and fellow worker with Madame Yajima. The daughter inherits the fine gifts and characteristics of her parents, and is evidently an unusually strong personality, wonderfully prepared for leadership at this moment in the development of Japanese women.
We would be very glad to hear from you about the conditions of residence, if it is possible, and shall be most gratefully
Yours in service
(Mrs. Henry) Genevieve Favill Topping [signed]
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