Henry Saunders Haskell to Jane Addams, January 25, 1915

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CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION

407 WEST 117TH STREET SUB-STATION 84, NEW YORK CITY

January 25, 1915.

Miss Jane Addams,
Hull House,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Miss Addams:-

I have consulted with Dr. Butler in reference to your suggestion that a woman organizer be appointed to visit various cities, deliver lectures and do other organizing work; but travelling and hotel expenses to be paid by the cities visited and the salary estimated at not more than one thousand dollars for a period from four to six months, to be provided by the Endowment.

Dr. Butler has expressed himself decidedly in favor of your suggestion. He think it would be perhaps unwise to transplant Miss Burritt from her present position. The other name suggested was Mrs. Harriet Fox Whicher, whose husband is on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Dr. Butler is acquainted with her work and thinks she will be quite suitable if she meets with your approval.

Might I suggest, subject to your approval, that you notify Mrs. Whicher to meet you at Chicago or at some other point convenient to you, to talk over the matter so that you could inform her as to what would be expected of her if she took up the work and at the same time you could form your opinion as to her ability to do the work.

Mrs. Whicher may be informed by you that memorandum of her expenses in meeting you may be sent to this office and we will [page 2] reimburse her.

Regarding your second suggestion which relates to Gilbert Murray's English translation of "The Trojan [Women]" by Euripides, this will require some study. As the season is now late, I assume that the matter is not urgent and that a delay of a few weeks for consideration and decision will not be harmful.

I have written to the women's Ass'n. of Commerce, Cleveland, Ohio, that the pressure of your engagements, makes it unwise for you to attempt to accept their invitation.

I have also written to Dean Rogers, President of the Business Men's Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, that you will be glad to accept the invitation for a thirty minute talk at one of their lunch meetings and that the matter of a convenient date will be adjusted by correspondence later.

Sincerely yours,

Henry S. Haskell [signed]

Assistant to the Director.