CATT, CARRIE CHAPMAN   GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE   MANN, ROWENA  M.

Carrie Chapman Catt
120 Paine Avenue
New Rochelle
New York
February 21, 1936.

Dr. Rowena Morse Mann,
5653 Dorchester Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.

Dear Dr. Mann:

I tried to telephone you when you were in New York, 
but I was never able to get connected with you, or else they
told the truth when they said you were out; at any rate, I sent
you a special delivery letter.  As I had no acknowledgment of
that letter, I am not so very sure you got it.  I hope you did,
so that you know we were unable to do anything practicable on
the date we had wanted to meet.

I was so overwhelmed with many things that I did not get the
comment on your lectures off to Mrs. Grossell as soon as I had 
intended.  When I came to write it, I had in mind the idea of
saying something that would induce club women to want to hear
you.

I remember that you said, not the last time I saw you, but at
some previous time, that you had lectured at a number of
European Universities while in Europe and engaged at Jena.
The number that remains in my mind is nine.

I am enclosing the comment I have prepared and I will ask you
to correct any errors I have made and to insert names of the
universities where you spoke.  If there is something I should
include that other people will not say, please have no hesitation
to insert it.  I will stand for it.  As I wrote Mrs.
Glosser, I have never heard you speak but once and that was at
an informal occasion.  I could not, therefore, make such comment
on your speaking characteristics, but I do want to say and do
anything I can.

I have suggested to Mrs. Grossell that, perhaps, she can make
a series of meetings around New Rochelle, so that you would
have an easy schedule over, say a week, during which time I
could put you up here when you were speaking near enough to us.
We could have a good visit.

There is doubt in my mind if such lectures could be made ready
for the spring.  Programs are arranged far ahead.

Do drop me a card or a letter to tell me if you receive my
letter and anything else you want me to know.

Very sincerely,

CCC:HW.

February 21, 1936.

Dr. Rowena Morse Mann, of Chicago, is one of the most
outstanding women I have known.  After taking two degrees in
this country, she went to the University of Jena, where she
was the first woman to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Germany has been one of the most conservative of nations in all
things that concern women, yet the University of Jena invited 
her for a five years engagement on philosphy which she accepted and
filled.  That means that she lectured in Germany.  More, she
lectured at nine other universities while in Europe, namely, -

[During] The last two years of her stay in Germany was under the
Hitler regime.  She knows European politics from A to Z.  She
can enlighten and entertain any intelligent audience.

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