WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
May 14, 1926.
Dear Jane Addams,
I have delayed writing you hoping every day for another letter with further details as to what you wish me to do about delegates from the different National Sections.
First as to finances. I have had your numerous little notes from Chicago all dated about the 20th of April and the one [enclosing] the draft of $500 for the Congress Fund ↑for which many thanks↓. As you will have learned from a wire which I sent you, I have turned over $400 to Miss Thomas to use in preparation for the Summer School. This came out of that extra $500 which I told you we had as a result of the payment of a back installment of our regular $500 a month for the International work. If you give us our regular May and June allowance, I shall be all right financially until I see you. That is, I will have the $500 draft and at least another $500 which I hope to gather in from the English Section and the other groups for the Congress. This, as you will see, will take me, Frau Tunas, Gertrud Baer, Marguerite Dumont and Miss Surles to Ireland to carry on our work there, but, of course, it will not provide for the traveling expenses of delegates from the different sections.
Madame Ramondt-Hirschmann has been writing me about this and says that we have always paid the way of numerous delegates and suggests that the best method is buying roundtrip tickets good for one month and presenting these to the delegates with a very small amount for incidentals and then arranging for their board in Ireland. I sent you a list of the people whom I did not think could come unless their traveling expenses were paid. If you have not already written me about this, I wish you would wire me at once.
I think it is a fine idea to get representatives from the northern countries like Finland. I very much appreciate the reference you made to me and the work here in Geneva in the letter which you sent out in an appeal for funds. [page 2] It is your encouragement more than anything else that has given me strength to go on with this very difficult task.
I am looking forward with the greatest eagerness to seeing you and talking things over.
Mrs. White of New York is here and this week we are taking a little tour in her car with Marcelle Capy and trying to wake up the Swiss Sections. We also hope to get to Milan and give the Italian Section there a word of encouragement for they are having a very hard time. When we return we are planning to have a meeting here in Geneva on "Why not disarm -- What women can do to bring this about." The morning after the meeting I hope to take the American petitions for Universal Disarmament and Abolishment of Conscription which Mrs. Kind says she is sending me and present these to our Swiss Minister, Mr. Hugh Gibson. Fortunately, my father knows Mr. Gibson and we have already communicated with him and he has promised to dine with us.
With much love to you and looking forward to seeing you soon,
Madeleine Doty. [signed]
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