↑Nov. 3.↓
Dear Miss Addams:
Thank you very much for the communication about the Hindu lawyer, Mr. [blank] to plead my case. I will write him directly thanking him for the offer, but of course the matter is very well taken care of by Mrs. Rabe.
The reaction to Judge Carpenter's ruling has been gratifyingly decent all over the country, as many hundreds of press clippings have proved. In that mass of press expressions I did not find a dozen paragraphs approving of the Judge's attitude, and of those few I can see they came from nearly two or three sources because they used word by word the same text. A great number of letters published by the New York Times and the World, and also addressed to me privately, show that nurses and ex-soldiers are perhaps more shocked than any one else about the absurd hypothetical case of a nurse shooting in defense of her charge. Many of the editorials written about the case express a keen interest in the outcome of the appeal.
Of course, the appeal remains now a question of finance. I on my part am utterly unable to contribute a cent towards that, as I am over the ears in debt for the expense the year's struggle with Mr. Schlotfeldt, and finally the trip to Chicago, ↑and Mother's illness↓ have involved. I do hope that the Finance Committee in Chicago will find it easily possible to back this appeal, which is now an entirely American legal and constitutional problem.
On my return from Chicago I found my Mother in a decidedly worse condition. She seems to have taken now the turn to the last phase of her dreadful illness. We suffer with her, and feel doubly burdened with our grief because we are unable to give her all the comfort that a long life of utter unselfishness and devoted service, not only to her family but to the broader interests of mankind, would deserve.
With best regards,
Cordially yours,
Rosika Schwimmer [signed]
↑Mrs Lorimer's young daughter committed suicide.↓
[written at top left of page] ↑While dictating this our beloved Mother died.↓
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