Jane Addams to Anne Henrietta Martin, March 6, 1928

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

↑Hull-House
Chicago↓

March 6, 1928.

Dear Anne Martin,

I am enclosing a copy of Edith Pye's letter by which you see she hopes to land April [9th]. I did not know, of course, until I opened the letter yesterday of the change of date. The 10th, as she suggests, would be all right for Chicago, as far as I am concerned, but unfortunately I am leaving for Boston on the 12th of April. We have our annual meeting of the Federation of Settlements and I have tied myself up with one or two speaking engagements so that it would be hard for me not to go.

Her address is c/o Miss Tano Jōdai, Women’s University, Koishikawa, [Tokyo]. ↑Japan.↓

I am enclosing a little statement regarding the Interim Congress at Honolulu. It looks now as though there will be no members of the International Board present excepting myself and so far as the W.I.L. is concerned, as if it ↑the Congress↓ will not amount to a great deal. The people who are planning to attend the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference are constantly increasing and it promises to be quite interesting. I do hope you can go. [page 2]

There are two people at least who are making up parties. One is being managed by the World Acquaintance Tours in New York and all of the delegates representing societies in the International Council of Women are planning to go in that way. Another party is being managed with great vigor from Kansas City by people whom Miss [Satterthwaite] saw while she was here. I was not planning to go with either one as I find that sort of thing very difficult. Mary Smith and I mean to go either by ourselves or with only a few people. It would be delightful if you could be one of them. We will let you know as soon as our plans are settled.

The Women's Conference is to be held from August 9th to 19th. There is a very good little W.I.L. branch in Honolulu who are preparing to do all they can for the Interim Congress beginning on the 20th.

I am sorry about Miss Pye's change of date.

Always devotedly yours,

Jane Addams [signed] [page 3]

P.S.

I am enclosing part of a letter from Mme. Drevet. I do not know her personally, but I am rather inclined to think that, from her letters to Pax, she is fairly radical and on the other hand she might be a good speaker for us. The very fact that she could go to many places for which Edith Pye has neither time nor strength might be of use to [us]. I think ↑wish↓ we could get her at least a few engagements for lectures on French Music which may be disarming.