WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
July 29th, 1925.
Dear Miss Addams,
Please find enclosed this acknowledgment for the amount forwarded to us for July by the Chicago Bank. As the last two amounts have both arrived this month, and as Germany, Hungary, Norway and Poland have brought or sent money to Innsbruck, we are rather rich at this moment and the next amount could be reduced by what the Chicago Branch sent directly last year without causing the slightest trouble.
I had thought to send you by the same mail our Balance Sheet for the first half of this year; but it has been done in my absence and I should like to have more detailed the receipts in gifts and Associate Membership-fees, so as to show clearly what has been received from the U.S.
Perhaps you will be interested in a quite [unbusinesslike] investigation into my financial management since the Congress, which I undertook for my own information before the Innsbruck meeting.
On the basis of Miss Balch's Budget-estimate, I compared
1) its items for receipts with what has really come in. I found that her estimate has been too optimistic, having expected 4.085.42 Swiss Francs more than have come in during the year since the Congress;
2) its items for expenses with what really has been spent; here I could not begin before the 1st October when the estimate was already in my hands. I took the monthly average of both the estimate and of our expenses during the last 8 months and found that I have transgressed [page 2] the monthly average of the estimate by 29.30 Swiss Francs only, although there was nothing allowed in it for unexpected expenses. As I had foreseen in my letter of October 8th, 1924, the printing expenses have been considerably higher; on the other hand, the expenses on office and postage have been considerably less than supposed in the estimate. This has been achieved mainly by doing at home lots of duplicating which had been done outside before and means a considerable stress on our small staff; but this is really the only possibility for cutting down expenses.
Our auditor has sent this time a letter of appreciation for the orderly work of our book-keeper; she is very proud of it and it shows that we are all right according to the Swiss habits of book-keeping; not yet, I am afraid, according to American ones.
Mrs. Ramondt is busy typing the full Minutes of Innsbruck; we shall send you the first copy of them as soon as she will have finished. The duplicated summary is done, but we have to wait still for a few resolutions which have been left with the drafting Committee.
In the mean time I hope that we shall succeed in finding the fittest acting secretary to take my place; I shall be glad to give her the fullest information possible on her work, her duties and her rights. I shall leave with the feeling of deep gratitude for the opportunity you so kindly gave me to give all my time and my force to this work for three years. I hope it will enable me to work for our cause all the time I shall be able to work at all.
Very sincerely yours
Vilma Glücklich [signed]
↑Please excuse the bad typing; Mrs. Ramondt is using my type-writer and I have to manage with a small one, borrowed from Miss Hattinga-Raven.↓
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