My dear Mrs. Fender,
I thank you very much for sending Mrs. Bailie's letters ↑which I am returning.↓ I am keeping ↑May I thank you for↓ the pamphlet but if they for any reason you want it please write me and I will, of course, return it at once.
I am writing Mrs. Bailie as you suggest ↑as follows [which] so follows:
Many years in the 1890s my sister Alice Addams Haldeman, who lived in ↑Girard↓ Kansas, and was quite an active member of the D.A.R. put me into the Society and gave me a spinning wheel pin for a Christmas present. In 1900 I was appointed by the U.S. Government as a Juror in Social Economics for the ↑World↓ Exposition in Paris. We secured ↑The jurors gave↓ a grand [prize] for ↑to↓ the D.A.R. ↑exhibition↓. I based my plea largely upon what the ↑society↓ had done for ↑in preserving Mt Vernon & other historical spots. (over)↓ [page 2] ↑As I remember, on my return to Chicago, the Nat D.A.R. in recognition of my [service] made a honorary member for life.↓ [page 3]
D.A.R. Correspondence↓
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