Catt, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE The League of Nations Association The League of Nations Association, Inc. National Headquarters: 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Celedonia 0250 Cable "Leagonat" GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM President PHILIP C. NASH Director JOHN H. CLARKE Honorary President Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Honorary Vice-President CHARLES H. STRONG Vice-President RAYMOND B. FOSDICK Chairman of Executive Committee EDWIN G. MERRILL Treasurer ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Vice-Chairmen CHARLES C. BAUER Mrs. EMMONS BLAINE IRVING FISHER HAMILTON HOLT IVY LEE CHESTER H. ROWELL Mrs. FRANK DAY TUTTLE Mrs. JOSEPHA WHITNEY October 23, 1930 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle, New York My dear Mrs. Catt, The announcement that you have been declared the winner of the Pictorial Review Achievement Award of $5,000. for 1929 has been received with unanimous acclaim. May I add my word of congratulation at the wise choice, which is a real tribute to your splendid contribution to the national life in the various fields for which this award is made. With kindest personal regards, I am Cordially yours, Chas C Bauer Charles C. Bauer Vice-Chairman of the Council CCB:MWS The League of Nations Association, Inc. National Headquarters: 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Celedonia 0250 Cable "Leagonat"GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM President PHILIP C. NASH Director JOHN H. CLARKE Honorary President Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Honorary Vice-President CHARLES H. STRONG Vice-President RAYMOND B. FOSDICK Chairman of Executive Committee EDWIN G. MERRILL Treasurer ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Vice-Chairmen CHARLES C. BAUER Mrs. EMMONS BLAINE IRVING FISHER HAMILTON HOLT IVY L. LEE CHESTER H. ROWELL Mrs. FRANK DAY TUTTLE Mrs. JOSEPHA WHITNEY The League of Nations Association, Inc. National Headquarters: 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Celedonia 0250 Cable "Leagonat" November 8th, 1930. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 120 Paine Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Catt: I am sure you must have had a delightful afternoon in thinking of all the pleasure and satisfaction that you were giving to your friends, and the appreciation that they all have, not only of your generosity but of the accomplishment that made it possible. I am going to take the liberty of reading your letter at the next meeting of the Board of Directors on December 4th, so at present I am just giving you the official receipt of the League of Nations Association for your gift, and expressing my personal gratitude and that of our staff here in the office. By the way, can you not plan to come to this Directors' meeting on December 4th? It will be held at luncheon at the Lawyers Club, 115 Broadway, at one o'clock; and I think we may have some very significant news by that time on the World Court. The telegrams that I told you about are bringing in excellent results. Some of the senators have expressed themselves in a way that pleases us very much (for instance, Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania), and some of them say that they have already been in touch with the President. The League of Nations Association letters to our committee people, asking them to see their senators, went out yesterday and today. The letter to the President we are going to hold up until November 24th, believing it to be more effective on that date. Over 50 people have already signified their desire to sign it and more authorizations are coming in each day. It will be a very significant list of people, and I hope will prove to the President and the country --2-- Mrs. Catt 11/8/30 that action must be taken. I wish you could come to this Directors' meeting but if not (or even if you do), I shall avail myself of the privilege of occasionally coming over to your house and sitting at your feet to learn how a job of this sort should be done. Cordially, [signed] Philip C. Nash, Director. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSOCIATION, INC. 6 EAST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. JOHN H. CLARKE, HONORARY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM, PRESIDENT 11-10 1930 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle, NY 22259 YOUR CONTRIBUTION OF ONE HUNDRED - DOLLARS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSOCIATION IS ACKNOWLEDGED WITH APPRECIATION AND THANKS. EDWIN G. MERRILL, TREASURERER [signed] Assistant Treasurer. $100.00 November 6, 1930. Mr. Philip Nash League of Nations Ass'n., 6 East 39th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Nash: Perhaps you know that I have received an "Achievement Award" from the Pictorial Review which they annually confer upon some woman. When I was summoned by the manager to his office, I was the most astounded person you ever saw, for I had had no inkling whatever that such a prospect was possible. I am at this moment the possessor of $5,000 I never expected to receive and this afternoon I am giving it all away. This money was given, so the manager said, because of my work for woman suffrage and for peace. I conclude that if there was any achievement for woman suffrage, it was collective, and if there is any achievement in peace, it is yet to come and must be the achievement of those are now at work. Therefore, I am giving some of the money to some of the suffrage women who worked without remuneration for more than twenty years and who are now and frail. The rest I am giving to peace work. I am contributing to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. I am also giving to the organizations that work directly for some form of peace or have active departments of that character and to each of these organizations I am giving $100. Therefore, you will find enclosed a check of $100 for the League of Nations Association. It is not a large one, but you will never get another just like it, so it is this much unearned increment. Very truly yours, CCC:H[?]. The League of Nations Association, Inc. National Headquarters: 6 East 39th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone Caledonia 0250 Cable "Leagonat" GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM President PHILIP C. NASH Director JOHN H. CLARKE Honorary President Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Honorary Vice-President CHARLES H. STRONG Vice-President RAYMOND B. FOSDICK Chairman of Executive Committee EDWIN G. MERRILL Treasurer ADVISORY COUNCIL Chairman NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Vice-Chairmen CHARLES C. BAUER Mrs. EMMONS BLAINE IRVING FISHER HAMILTON HOLT IVY L. LEE CHESTER H. ROWELL Mrs. FRANK DAY TUTTLE Mrs. JOSEPHA WHITNEY October 23rd, 1930. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 120 Paine Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Catt: We were, of course, delighted to read in the "Times" of the award to you. It is a most fitting and proper thing. I feel like congratulating the committee of award on their good sense even more than you for receiving it! You have perhaps seen in the "League of Nations News" the plans for the Annual Meeting of the Association in Chicago. I wish very much that you could be there and act as one of the principal speakers. I know that it comes just before the Cause and Cure Conference in Washington, but it might be very simple for you to go direct from Chicago to Washington. I hope that this will be one of the most important meetings held in the Middle West for the furthering of international relations, and its significance will be increased very greatly if you can be there. Cordially, Philip C. Nash Philip C. Nash, Director. 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