Mar. 8, 26
ON BOARD S.S. "ADRIATIC."
Dear Miss Addams,
How I wish you were here beside me loafing on this deck looking out on the sunny hills of Africa as we sail by.
I had a letter the other day from Mrs. Alice Park of California. She is going around the [page 2] world, and she will be at the convention in Dublin. I do hope it will be possible to arrange to make her a delegate from the United States. She will bring us a valuable message from the countries she has visited.
Yesterday I was at Gibraltar, and it is a joke [today] in view of airplanes and Lewisite the military do not know that they are dead, but [page 3] they are! Lord Asquith and Oxford has given us pacifists our cue -- we must, as he said -- "make war ridiculous." The ↑militarists↓ have been tragic ↑hitherto↓ but they must be made only funny for the future.
I think I sent you one of the invitations to the dinner they gave me in Washington. You are used to such things, but it came as a great surprise [page 4] to me. The loving cup they gave was a beautiful big vase. Wasn't it dear of them all to do it!
I think it has been well for me to take this cruise to Naples for I shall be [thoroughly] rested, and ready for work by that time, and I hope to be a real help to Madeleine Doty, and to you. My love to you, dear Miss Addams,
Affectionately
Katherine D. Blake.
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