March 30 1932
Dear Professor Hudson:
I have just returned from Florida, and find here a copy of your new book, Progress in International Organization. I am very grateful for it for all kinds of reasons and see in it a profitable source of lecture material for many a day!
I am sending you a little book of my own which Macmillan has just brought out. It is rather dull I am afraid both in subject and treatment, but it gives me pleasure to send it to you.
I have never thanked you I think -- partially because I did not know ↑until↓ I was in the hospital in Baltimore, -- for what you did concerning my candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize. I knew the women had been very active in the matter, but supposed it had been dropped a year ago. I am quite sure that you were the determining factor in the situation, and I am very grateful.
The total amount of the check was $16,480.58. I sent $15,000 into the W.I.L. treasury at Geneva -- $12,000 to be used as an endowment and $3,000 to be spent on vote of the Committee. One thousand more I gave for the debt on Pax and some Peace activities in this country, and am saving the last, approximately, $500 for the trip to Oslo if my doctor permits me to make it this summer, which looks now extremely doubtful. I am quite sure however that Dr. Butler will be able to sustain the reputation of the U.S.A. without me. How very formal it all is, -- from the Diplomatic Pouch up and down! I hope some time I may have the pleasure of showing you the whole paraphernalia and the very imposing stack of cables.
With cordial greetings to Mrs Hudson and yourself, I am
Faithfully yours,
Jane Addams. [signed]
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