September 10, 1926.
Dear Miss Addams:
We shall need your help in the last ten days of September in clearing the year of Survey Associates. Can you attend a meeting of the Board of Directors, either in the late afternoon or dinner, on September 20th, 21st or 22nd? Please let me know your preference, and what other of these dates is possible for you.
Ours is not an extremely serious situation so far as the amount of money to raise goes. It is serious insofar as we let it take the edge off the creative weeks at the threshold of our new publishing season, which is opening up in fine shape.
You remember that at our meeting in June, in view of Mrs. Brenner's illnesses, the Board undertook to help get under this particular job. I must confess that with the execution of our chairman, they have been about as active on the money-raising and throughout the year as the trustees of an endowment fund. But if we all pitch in, we can wipe the slate clean between now and the 30th. Can I count on your help?
Mrs. Brenner is here in the East for a few weeks; and while her health is not such that she could tackle this eleventh hour effort, I am glad to say that she will be at the meeting proposed. Will you let me know by early mail the dates you could attend.
Sincerely,
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