May 27, 1927.
My dear Mr. Latham,
I should be very glad to add a few chapters to "Twenty Years at Hull-House" calling it "Twenty Years and After at Hull-House" or possibly "Twenty Years at Hull House and After" or some such title that would still retain the original words and indicate additions. It will be forty years in 1929 since Hull-House was founded and it might be better to wait until then calling it "Twice Twenty Years at Hull-House." I could do most of the writing in advance and have the book actually comes on the market in the year 1929.
I think that I would rather follow such a plan than to receive a ten percent royalty. As you recall when you published the book in the Macmillan's Pocket American and English Classics, I gave up all my royalties and perhaps I tend to regard that as my share in the direction of popularizing books. If this plan meets with your approval I should be glad to begin writing this summer.
↑Under these circumstances it seems better not to reprint the new book by another addition such [as] the Norton Reader Series, does it not?
Faithfully yours↓
Jane Addams [signed]
↑P.S. Please pardon this [untidy] letter.↓
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