October 19, 1925.
My dear Miss Addams:
As you are going to speak in New York on November 11th we have decided that we will hold our next National Board meeting in New York just before or after that date in the hope that you will be present. Would you let me know as soon as you are able what day will suit best so that we may make arrangements accordingly?
I think it would be a very good plan if you would send me a letter signed by you to be sent out to all international members. Madeleine Doty wanted to do this as soon as she reached Europe, but I really feel it should be done from this office and certainly can go much more quickly.
I tried to get Mary [Winsor] in Philadelphia to give us a thousand dollars the other day for Miss Rankin. She refused to do this saying she was not interested in the National work but that she would give to the International Congress. I think you ought to be able to count on her for a thousand. She did not definitely pledge it, but I told her I was going to write you and tell you that you could have that much from her. I think a letter from you written about March would bring the money.
I dictated this letter on Friday the 16th, but in the press of work it is only going out today.
Our National Executive Committee meeting was held on Tuesday the 13th and I did not leave Philadelphia until the [page 2] evening of the 14th, which was Wednesday. By the time Miss Hilles had send me the corrected minutes (you will remember she is the Recording Secretary) it was Saturday morning and the minutes left this office by Saturday noon.
The minutes of the National Board meeting, which you attended were held up for a long time because Miss Hilles went to New Hampshire immediately after and it was some time before we received them here. I try to get them out very promptly as soon as they are here at the office and these last ones you will see were mailed within a few hours of the time we received them.
Miss Balch felt it would be quite American to send the British Section some Indian moccasins or something Indian, but nothing was definitely decided.
Faithfully yours,
Dorothy Detzer
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