CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Lindemann, Anna [Form] Receipt for Registered Article No. 646834 Fee paid________ cents, Class postage ________ Return Receipt fee______ Spl. Del'y fee________ Delivery restricted to addressee: In person____________, or order______________ Accepting employee will place his initials in space indicating restricted delivery. POSTMASTER, per_______________ (MAILING OFFICE) (POSTMARK OF) [followed by a postmark stamp: New York, G.C. STA.-REG. 12-3-1930 [continued Form] The sender should write the name of the addressee on back hereof as identification. Preserve and submit this receipt in case of inquiry or application for indemnity. Registry Fees and indemnity. --Domestic registry fees range from 15 cents for indemnity not exceeding $50 up to $1 for indemnity not exceeding $1,000. 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Form 3806 (Rev.7-1-29) 05-6852 US Government Printing Office 1929 (to be retained by Purchaser) Memorandum of Cheque Issued subject to Conditions printed on back hereof CAUTION--SEND CHEQUE BY REGISTERED MAIL We have this day issued our Cheque No. 7473291 Date 11/28/1930 Payee: Anna Lindemann Drawn on Westbank fur Handel & Geivertz at ( Place) Manenburg, Westpo Gy For (Ammount) 418 mks At Rate of Exchange 2392=$100.00 Charges (if any) $ .50 Total $100.50 Sold to Carrie Chapman Catt Address 100 E 45st, NYC Name and Address of Issuer The Chase National Bank of the City of New York Fifty Seventh St. Branch Amc[?] Lindemann[?] Sene[?] AGREEMENT THE CHEQUE SPECIFIED IN THE MEMORANDUM ON THE OTHER SIDE HEREOF IS ISSUED SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: It is understood and agreed by and between the Issuer of this Cheque and the person (herein referred to as the Remitter) to whom this Memorandum and the Cheque referred to herein are issued, that the transaction in subject to the following conditions: 1.-If the Cheque referred to herein is paid in accordance with the laws and usage of the country in which it is cashed, such payment shall be deemed to be due and proper for all purposes. (In certain foreign countries identification of the payee or holder of a Cheque is not required in order to secure payment.) 2.-If for any reason said Cheque is not paid by drawee and is presented to the Issuer for refund, the Remitter will accept refund on the basis of the market buying rate, at place of issuance, on the date of refund, for the foreign money specified on the Cheque, less any charges and expenses incurred on behalf of the Issuer. 3.-In the event that this Cheque is lost, stolen or destroyed, no refund will be made until the claimant has furnished a satisfactory bond of indemnity. 4.-Any alteration or mutilation of this Memorandum or of said Cheque by any person will render the entire transaction void. 5.-Nothing contained in this Memorandum shall be deemed a waiver of the obligation and duty of the holder of the Cheque to present the same for payment promptly to the drawee and to pro- test the same in the event of its non-payment. 6.-The face of said Cheque and the conditions printed on this Memorandum state the exact obligations of the Issuer and shall not be altered or supplemented in any manner. No oral or col- lateral agreement shall bind the Issuer. November 29, 1930. Mrs. Anna Lindemann, Wolfgang Muller - Str. 20, Koln-Marienberg, Germany. My dear Mrs. Lindemann: A magazine here in the United States and known as a Pictorial Review has an enormous circulation and is very rich and prosperous. About five years ago it established a new idea. It permits the public to put up a candidate (an American woman who is supposed to have achieved something) and to send letters and telegrams favoring the candidate. It has a Committee of Judges, composed of nineteen men and women of different walks of life, and these judges take all the letters and telegrams and judge, among them, which should be chosen to receive what is knows as an "achievement award. When the choice is made, the person chosen is notified and receives a check for $5,000.00. A very grand luncheon is given to this person and prominent people are invited. Some complimentary speeches are made and she makes a speech in return. It is all very funny and very grand. Well, this year I got the "achievement Award" and the manager and I had our pictures taken together - he, presenting the check to me, and I, accepting the check. Then his picture went out in the movies all over the country. It was the worst moving picture you ever saw and that is the kind of fame that was established. Despite all the publicity, I did receive the money and I did give it all away. The Manager of the magazine said the "Achievement Award" was given me "Because of my work for woman suffrage and for peace." Consequently, I thought I would give $1,000 of it to suffragists who were not very young and who had worked hard for their cause and who were, perhaps, more or less needy. I had no difficulty in finding nine splendid Americans, but the tenth was not quite so conspicuous. As the next purpose for which this "award" was given me was my work for peace and as peace is not yet achieved, I thought I would give $100 each to twenty peace societies or organizations having peace departments and this I did, but, again, I could only find nineteen. Therefore I was short $100 on my contributions to suffragists and $100 on my gifts to peace organizations. The rest of the money I received went to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. I had $200. left, as I have just explained. My mind went across the ocean and I thought of our European suffragists and I thought I would like to give that $200 to two of them. When I looked over an old letterhead of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, alas, I found Mrs. Fawcett, Mme. Schlumberger, and MarieStritt all gone. I take it that Jane Brigode, Chrystal Macmillan, Signe Bergman, and Mrs. Coit do not need the money. The two remaining are your own dear self and Annie Furuhjelm, so I am giving to each of you an international draft in your own money for the equivalent of $100.00. -2- Somewhere in your mind there is something that you want, and perhaps need, that $100.00 will buy. Please get it for yourself and remember that it came to you out of a free gift which I received from the Pictorial Review. It comes to you with a memory of affection and admiration established many years ago and continuous to this day. Lovingly, CCC:HW. Koln-Marienburg, Wolgang Mullerstr. 20 Dec. 16th 1930 Dearly beloved Chief, I feel absolutely sure that you are quite un- able to picture to yourself the effect your letter and the kind gift it contained had on me! Let me first make that clear: You know that the murderous inflation we had from 1918 till that autumn of 1924 when a few energetic and clearsighted men managed to bring it to a stand- still, has destroyed almost all the fortunes possessed by the members of the educated middle class. Ours had of course the same fate, but as my husband as professor at the Cologne university has a fairly good income, we could manage all right and could even assist to a consider- able degree my sister-in-law, a painter in Munich, who had lost al- most all she had, and could maintain my mother-in-law entirely. We lived happily and without serious care. About 4 years ago my daughter suddenly got asthma, to a degree that made life a burden to her. The real cause of it was not detected in the beginning, the most famous specialist for internal diseases felt sure that tuberculosis must be in play - in site of all Rontgen pictures that did not show the faint- est spot. However we sent her to Davos after all treatment in our hospital here had not helped her, because we thought that at all events the fine air so high up would do her good - which it also did. She stayed there a year, had occasional attacks of asthma, but felt well enough to come home in the early autumn of 1929. As the dif- ference between the height of Davos and that of Cologne, which is only about 40 metres above sea-level, is enormous, she had to stay for some time at a middle height and chose a pretty place in the Vosges in Alsatie. She had not been there a fortnight, when she suddenly got an attack of appendicitis and had to be taken in the night in a motor-car to Strassburg, where she had the luck to be operated by the best surgeon of the town - very fortunately indeed, as the operation proved rather difficult. She came home as possible, but in a very short time her old enemy lifted its head again. So we sent her to the greatest German specialist on Asthma, a professor in Heidelberg. I dare say you know that there are a great many possible causes for asthma and that it has possible to detect most of them. When the cause can be clearly defined, there is every hope for a cure. Prof. Hansen could in Hildes Case only find out that the cause must lie in some virus produced within her own body, but he could not find out where. She came home however felling comparatively well. and accepted a very interesting task in Dusseldorf, where the head of all the Dusseldorf hospitals, a doctor known all over Germany, had asked her to be his "directorial assistant", whose chief work was to be the continuous and intense study of the whole work of these large hospitals, with the aim to bring them as near to perfection as possible. Hilde worked there for 3 months very happily and with much praise from her Chief - and then , when she came home for Christmas, her old enemy overcame her again. It got so bad, that she had to go into the University hospital on New Year's Eve. The doctors and the Sisters - all friends of hers as she had spent her practical year in this hospital - did everything that could possibly be done, but without effect. Then at last, by a pure accident, it turned out what the infection in her system was, that Prof. Hansen had spoken of. The doctor in the hospital had thought that a rigorous change in diet might perhaps have a salutary effect and ordered her a certain diet, called Gerson Diet, which is entirely without salt , and Chiefly vegetable food; when he asked how she liked it, she complained that the food was without any taste to her, as [?] salt was the only thing she could taste at all. That caused the doctor to have a Rontgen II picture taken of the inner cavities of the nose etc. - then it came out that there must be the cause of the whole trouble. She was at once removed to the "Clinic for nose and ears" and the professor for that department operated with marvellous dexterity and removed every atom of the stuff that should not be there. He told her at once, though, that for a good many month, perhaps a year, she could not expect to get rid of her asthma, as that had in the mean time established too strong a hold to disappear quickly. She then was sent to a Sanatorium in the North of Germany, where she was treated by a famous psychologist - it appears that the post asthma sufferers get a peculiar mental habit - a kind of fear of an access of the evil which just brings it about; that did her a great deal of good. For about three months now she has been in Berlin with a teacher of "breathing gymnastics" - it appears, that asthma patients take to breating extremely superficially because they fear proper breathing will bring about attacks more frequently. My husband, who had to attend a meeting in Berlin Lately, was very pleased with the present state of her health. We hope that she will even be able to come home for Xmas, for about a fortnight, and that it will not be too long before she can take up work again. You can imagine that there is another side to this whole story, namely the financial. From beginning to end it was terribly expensive . She cost us every month a sum on which a good many middle class families live quite decently. In the beginning we felt it of course, and restricted our expenses somewhat because of it, but in the course of time all reserves came to and end and when from January till July of this year our House and Garden in old home Stuttgart-Degerloch stood empty and we had to invest 14 000 M. for repairs and improvements before it could be let again, it began to be seriously difficult to find the necessary money. After Xmas things will be more hopeful again, but just that morning when your letter came, I had lain in bed awake for hours, vainly trying to find a way out of this dilemma. I did not feel well and stayed a little later in bed - and then your letter was brought me and I thought I was dreaming! Can you feel now, you dear friend, that your kindly thought meant nothing short of a miracle to me? And curiously enough it was just the sum that I was in need of! From January on and if nothing unexpected happens, I shall again be able to manage all right, I hope. We expect Hilde home again for Xmas, but she must not stay long, especially if the warm, misty weather continues. Berlin with its bracing air is much better for the poor asthma sufferers. As soon as she is able to work, she will look about for medical work there. And now, dear old Chief, I hope I have made it quite plain to you how intensely I have felt your kindness, that came to me at a moment when all my own resourced seemed at an end! I wish I could some day do unto you as you did unto me! Ever yours in love and admiration ( both are now full two and twenty years old!) Anna Lindunaun Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.