February 9th 1928.
Dear Miss [Addams],
May I very heartily thank you for your great kindness to me when at Chicago.
I found Hull House a great and a really astonishing experience. I left with one regret, the time I spent there was altogether too short.
I take the liberty of asking you to accept the enclosed ten dollars with the request that you will give it to the Hull House Band.
While in America, I visited the following places, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Buffalo, Boston, Lexington, Concord, Hartford, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, returning to England on December 10th, I hope, broadened and widened, as the result of my visit.
When at Baltimore I attended a meeting, a very large one, at the Hippodrome, on a Sunday afternoon, in memory of the late Eugene Debs. It was a great gathering. One of the speakers, from New York, I just forgot his name, a tall, virile, active man, a very fluent talker, mentioned your name several times in the course of his speech. He spoke of the breadth and the universality of your sympathies and that because of these you were in some quarters looked upon as a traitor. On the other hand he paid great compliment to you to the obvious delight of the large audience.
With all good wishes and grateful thanks.
Yours very sincerely,
W E Hincks [signed]
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