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August 30, 1927.
Dear Charles Cooper --
I do not know whether you expected a reply to the copy of the letter addressed to Miss Addams which you sent me. I am and have been for a long time strongly opposed to capital punishment. However, I doubt if the settlement organizations, embracing as they do people of so many radically different points of view, could organize themselves for the purpose of fighting capital punishment.
I am eager to have such a fight made and want to be a part of it. I would like to see all the settlement people in it, but I think we should do it outside of our organization. We were not formed for this purpose and I am afraid it would not seem to me wise to undertake it. Beside that I think I should be opposed to it on principle although I am yours till death in opposition to the death penalty.
Yours as ever,
(Signed) John L. [Elliott]
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