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Dear Miss Addams,
I want to tell you how glad I am that you replied as you did to Miss Boardman. What you said with reference to the violations <of obligations> to Hull House and other associations is most timely. It will help many struggling social workers and others who will be forced into the arena to fight for their ideas during these stirring days which are facing us.
For example, my neighbor and comrade in social work, Mr. Bailey B. Burritt whom you know, is urged to run for the assembly. If he accepts, it will be at the risk of losing his position, for the S.C.A.A. <board> is very bitter. Mr. Folks himself has not felt free to take the stand, which he is likely to take very soon, because the society has revealed the weakness of caring more for its position and influence than for the cause itself. [page 2]
Mr. Choate, Mrs. William B. Rice and Mr. Canfield, the President and two of the vice-presidents of the S.C.A.A. all are very bitter. We love them, but I presume we shall be compelled to fight them. Dear Mrs. Rice, whom I am sure you know, is the key to the situation, she is the strongest man on the board, not excepting Mr. Choate.
Mrs. Rice is now in Bar Harbor. If she has read your statement, it must have moved her. But she may not have seen it, and to win her would mean much to New York. Therefore I venture to hope that if you meet her there and the opportunity presents itself you will try to win her over to the position taken by you in your reply to Miss Boardman.
Surely the fight will be worth all its costs. When the time arrives I hope all will be ready to make the sacrifice.
Faithfully yours,
John A Kingsbury
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