WOMENS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
My dear [Madeleine] Doty,
Thank you very much for the Summer School material and the reports. We needed the latter immediately because of our International Legacy in New York. Please send me the bill for the cables which you were obliged to send to the other members of the Executive Committee. The arrangement could not be used after all because it had been made after the Will was probated. We are having all sorts of difficulties with it.
The whole point now is to establish Madame Ramondt as Treasurer That is ↑[illegible]↓ that she performs all the duties of Treasurer under the name of Financial Secretary. Will you please do all you can to look up the records showing that she was duly elected. First in December 1922 at The Hague at the Meeting of the Executive Meeting held after The ↑[Hague]↓ conference. As I remember Vilma Glücklich came late to the meeting and it was said afterwards there was no record of Madame Ramondt's election. She was reelected at the Executive Committee meeting held after the Congress in Washington and you should have a record of that in the office. Gertrude Baer drew my attention to the fact in Dublin that she had not been reelected, that in the general discussion her office was forgotten. However, she would hold over until a successor was appointed. The lawyers in New York are very insistent upon [illegible] establishing the fact that she is acting as Treasurer because the Will read that if the W.I.L. was not incorporated the money was to be paid to the Treasurer.
Mr. [Tibbitts] one of the Administrators has left for Paris ↑& he↓ is to see Madame Ramondt. I am very anxious that he should meet her in Geneva rather than in Amsterdam, both because the records are in Geneva and because I think the whole business would seem more important if it was transacted at our International Office at Geneva.
Thanking you for your promptness in sending the material, I am
Hastily but always affectionately yours,
Jane Addams [signed]
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