WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
Dear Miss Scripps:
Miss Addams and I never forget the generosity with which you helped us in our difficulties after our Washington Congress of 1924 in the matter of our publication expenses.
I hope you will let me lay before you a present undertaking of the Women's International League, more constructive and more interesting. This League, as an international body, is asking Mrs. Grover Clark, an American woman living for seventeen years in Peking, Miss Edith Pye of London, and Madame Camille [Drevet] of Paris to undertake a mission to the women of China on its behalf. Mrs. Clark, wife of the liberal editor of the Peking Leader, as you doubtless know, is already on the spot. We hope that Miss Pye and Madame [Drevet] will join her early in the autumn.
I enclose
(1) the objects of the mission,
(2) the letter sent to Chinese women for our League,
(3) a letter from Rufus Jones of the Society of Friends, (Quakers), recently returned from China,
(4) a 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. Even at this distance, we hear echoes of all you are doing in California in La Jolla and at Pomona, and a member of the Women's International League wrote Miss Addams the other day much impressed and interested by the "Better America" subscription which you had placed in a public library.
Hoping that you will not feel that we are presuming upon your unfailing interest in peace and international good will, we are
Always gratefully yours,
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