WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
Dear Miss Scripps,
Miss Addams has [illegible] and I never forget the gracious generosity with which you helped us out of a hole ↑in our difficulties↓ [illegible] after our Washington Congress ↑of 1924↓ in the matter of our publication expenses.
This I hope you will let me lay before you a present undertaking of the WILPF more constructive and more interesting. We are sending a delegation consisting of Mrs. Grover Clark ↑The League as an international body [is]↓ asking Mrs. Grover Clark of ↑an American woman [illegible] living for seventeen years in↓ Peking, Miss Edith Pye of London and Madame Camille Drevet of Paris to represent our ideas us undertake a mission to ↑the women↓ China Chinese or [page 2] on its behalf. Mrs. Clark wife the [illegible] and liberal editor of the Peking Leader, as you doubtless know, is already on the spot. We hope that Miss We hope that Miss Pye and Madame Drevet will join her ↑early↓ in the early fall autumn.
Rufus Jones, just [illegible]
I enclose
(1) the objects of the mission
(2) the letter sent to Chinese women form our League
(3) relevant parts of a letter from Rufus Jones of the Society of Friends (Quakers) recently returned from China.
(4) a letter [illegible] recent letter to Miss Addams from one of the Chinese women to whom she had written about this matter
We hope very much that you will feel it a good investment to give a thousand dollars toward this undertaking which we believe has seeds of real usefulness in it. Our [illegible] Even at this distance we hear [page 3] echoes of all you are doing in California, in La Jolla and at Pomona, and a member of the W.I.L. wrote Miss Addams the other day much impressed and interested by the "Better America" subscription which you had placed in the La Jolla San Die ↑a public↓ library at San Diego.
Hoping you that you will not feel that we are presuming upon your unfailing interest in peace and international good-will
I am writing for myself and we are very sincerely yours
We are always gratefully yours,
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