August 16, 1927
Dear Miss Addams:
Thank you for your note of August 11. I am glad that you have written to Fuller and to Coolidge. We should certainly be glad to print anything from you on any phase of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
I hope that I may be in Maine over Labor Day, but cannot at present be sure. I have been going to Boston every week on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and I hope that I shall still be so engaged in September.
My sister is now in New York. Her husband was teaching at Columbia this summer and has just had a serious operation -- appendicitis plus. I am not sure that they will get back to [Sargentville] as early as September; but I should like very much to visit you and see Miss Smith and Harriet Herrick again.
Ruth has returned to the shores of Lake Michigan for the remainder of the summer, but I am in the dark as to when Ida and Beatrice will sail. I presume the complication is in finding some substitute for Beatrice.
I quite understood your disinclination to let your name go on the National Citizen's Committee for bringing out the Department of Justice records in the S.V. case. The only immediate value of the move is in publicity. Later on, however, we may be able to secure a genuine investigation of the Department through action by the liberal senators. [page 2]
With best wishes,
Most sincerely,
Robert Lovett [signed]
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