My dear Miss Addams,
Your letter of May 28th from Cleveland just reached me on account of yesterday's holiday. I am awfully sorry to have to say that Mr. Hull is not expecting to go over this summer and so cannot go to Dublin to speak at our Congress. He is in New York [today] or would write you himself. I will try to persuade him as you ask me to do. He may succumb to your wishes but I have been trying to persuade him all spring to go over for another purpose. We may win out yet, but I doubt it. We missed you terribly from the Board Meeting. Miss Jennison was here and helped us greatly. She told us of your desire that the Philippine young woman, whose name I have not gotten, should go to Dublin. We were quite ready to try to do something about it but Mrs. Thomas told us that she knew for a certainty that Miss L. had returned and was impossible to reach.
Dorothy Detzer will take Miss Park's credentials and Dublin. Miss Park and Mary O'Sullivan are both endorsed as delegates. I hope you have seen a copy of Miss Balch's paper Next Steps Toward Peace which has, of course, already gone to Geneva. I know you will like it. Miss Blake is one of our consultative members, and in the event of my not being there, which is almost certain now, Mrs. Kind will act.
I hope, dear Miss Addams, that you are not feeling deserted by the Board of the United States' Section. We are all feeling terribly not to be going with you, but in each individual case there seems to be a real reason.
I do not think that it would be wise to suggest Mary [Winsor]'s name as a delegate. It is all right for her to be there and even to speak on the Program if you wish it, but as a delegate she might easily give you some trouble, and in any case she has not been active enough to warrant her having the privilege even. Ever since the Washington Congress she has let us absolutely alone. [page 2]
If there is anything I can do to help you get off or be of service in any way, please let me know. Meanwhile, most loving greetings,
P.S. I shall try to find whether another American Quaker would be available to speak in Dublin, and let you know. Of course there are splendid English Quakers if you wish their names.
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