CATT, Carrie Chapman  GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE     Federation of Woman's Boards of   
                                                                                           Foreign Missions

The Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions
of North America
Mrs. Frank Gaylord Cook, Treasurer, 44 Garden Street, Cambridge, Mass.
Gratefully acknowledges the receipt of
One hundred and #/100 dollars $100.00
from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt
for the Department of Peace or International 
Relations
Date: December 3, 1930.    
Alice B. Cook Treasurer
Federation of Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions of North America
President, MRS. F. I. JOHNSON
150 Fifth Avenue, New York
MISS FLORENCE G. TYLER, Executive Secretary
419 Fourth Avenue, New York City
Telephone:  Caledonia 1271
Treasurer, MRS. FRANK GAYLORD COOK
44 Garden Street,
Cambridge, Mass.
December 3, 1930.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt
120 Paine Avenue
New Rochelle, N. Y.
My dear Mrs. Catt:
It gives me great pleasure to enclose
our receipt for $100 covering your very generous contribution 
to the Federation for the use of its Committee on
International Relations.
I am writing to Mrs. Silverthorn today
and I know of the great joy it will bring her to know
that this money is at the disposal of her Committee, for
the allowance that the Federation is able to make her is
all too meager for the plans which she and her Committee
have in mind.
Your distribution of the $5,000 which
you received and which you so well deserved, shows a
broad mind as well as a most generous disposition on your
part.
I should explain that your letter followed
Mrs. Johnson to California hence the delay in receiving this
acknowledgment.
Yours very sincerely,
 Alice B. Cook (c)
(Mrs. Frank Gaylord Cook)
DICTATED BUT NOT READ.

November 10, 1930

Mrs. F. I. Johnson,
President, Federation of Woman's Boards of 
Foreign Missions of North America,
150 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.

My dear Mrs. Johnson:

     Perhaps you know that I have received an "Achievement 
Award" from the Pictorial Review which they annually bestow 
upon a woman selected by a Board of nineteen persons. I be-
lieve that their choice is decided by commendations received
 from individuals and organizations, but I had no hint of such a
 campaign being in process. I was summoned by the manager 
of the Pictorial Review to his office and I was the most as-
tounded woman you ever saw. It was the moment of greatest
 surprise in all my life. I have received the $5,000. It was
 given, so the manager said, for work done for woman suffrage
 and for peace.

The woman suffrage work was a collective achievement. Most 
of those whose service covered the longest period are gone. 
I have given the first $1,000 to ten suffragists, all of whom
 are old and frail. All of these worked without remuneration 
and none of them gave less than twenty years. I expect to
 give the second thousand to old suffragists and the rest will 
go to peace. Any achievement in peace is yet to come and must be 
the achievement of those now at work.

I am hereby presenting to the organizations composing the 
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War $1,000 -- 
$100 to each organization except the last two to join us 
and to them I must divide $100 in order to make my $1,000 come out 
even. This contribution is to go to the Department of Peace 
or International Relations, or whatever you call it, and used
 exclusively for work in that department.

Very cordially,



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