CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE PARK, Maud Wood 1922-33 503 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 404 RIVERSIDE DRIVE NEW YORK Easter Sunday 1922. My dearest Maud:- I have just received your letter and make haste to reply. There is no one in this big wide world who could be president of the League and compare at all favorably with your own masterly, tactful all wise management of things. There is no one who doesn't want you there and every member does want you there. So let's say, nothing else about it. Don't think for a minute of wasting energy on a successor. When you see the time coming as someday you will that you can go on no longer, then you must cast about for some one to take your place, but that I hope will be a long way ahead. No, dear Maud, I do not like the way the League is drifting, but that doesn't matter in the least. The convention elects officers and composes a program. The officers in turn carry out the policy and really create it. That is a big machinery and I have no intention of bucking against its combined judgment. I have the utmost pride and admiration and confidence in the entire board individually and collectively and a supreme confidence in the president. The League is going in the direction it had to go, and if the rest of you see no breakers ahead on the route it is taking then the fact that I think I see them is of no concern, and your combined judgement must be right. At any rate I should enter no criticism and no one will rejoice so heartily over every achievement as I, even when I think it out of peace. Don't worry about me, dear girl. I'd throw out Child Welfare and let the Federation have it. I'd throw out Social Hygiene and let the W.C.T.U. have it and I'd throw out food and let the Packers have it and then stand on a clear cut Better Government plan. This is easier to explain. When I've made a speech here and claimed it as an agency for political education. I've been utterly routed by a question in that maternity bill which has no more to do with good citizenship than diamond tiaras. My mind isn't big enough to see the goal ahead through such a cloud of other things - that's all. You think otherwise and so does Miss Sherwin for I talked with her. That is enough for me. I surrender. Dear Maud forget it, you have trouble enough! Page Break I have only heard a garbled story about that fire. I don't know where it was nor when. But that it was a shock I'm sure and I am truly sympathetic on that point. I have a more understanding comprehension (never having been through a fire) of the loss of clothes and an address (not report) almost completed. My! but that was a jolt. Perhaps you had insurance on the blue dress, but no scheme for paying damages on lost reports and speeches has yet been derived. Poor little Maud, what a lot of woe has come to her. Big masterly brave Maud, how she does conquer all things! She's my heroine, my hope and my abiding faith! Lovingly, Carrie Chapman Catt COPY (Original in Women's Rights Collection, Radcliffe College, Carrie Chapman Catt Box file.) Carrie Chapman Catt 404 Riverside Drive New York City. Easter Sunday, 1922. My dearest Maud:- I have just received your letter and make haste to reply. There is no one in this big wide world who could be president of the League and compare at all favorably with your own masterly, tactful all wise management of things. There is no one who doesn't want you there and every member does want you there. So let's say nothing else about it. Don't think for a minute of wasting energy on a successor. When you see the time coming as some day you will that you can go on no longer, then you must cast about for some one to take your place, but that I hope will be a long way ahead. No, dear Maud, I do not like the way the League is drifting, but that doesn't matter in the least. The convention elects officers and composes a program. The officers in turn carry out the policy and really create it. That is a big machinery and I have no intention of bucking against its combined judgement. I have the utmost pride and admiration and confidence in the entire board, individually and collectively, and a supreme confidence in the president. The League is going in the direction it had to go doubtless, and if the rest of you see no breakers ahead on the route it is taking then the fact that I think I see them is of no concern, and your combined judgment must be right. At any rate I shall utter no criticism and no one will rejoice so heartily over every achievement as I, even when I think it out of place. Don't worry about me, dear girl. I'd throw out Child Welfare and let the Federation have it. I'd throw out Social Hygiene and let the W.C.T.U have it and I'd throw out Food and let the Packers gave it and then stand on a clear out Better Government plan. It is easier to explain. When I've made a speech here and claimed it as an agency for political education, I've been utterly routed by a question on that maternity bill which has no more to do with good citizenship than diamond tiaras. My mind isn't big enough to see the goal ahead through sucha cloud of other things - that's all. You think otherwise and so does Miss Sherwin for I talked with her. That is enough for me. I surrender. Dear Maud, forget it, you have trouble enough. I have only heard a garbled story about that fire. I don't know where it was nor when. But that it was a shock, I'm sure and I am truly sympathetic on that point. I have a more understanding comprehension (never having been through a fire) of the loss of clothes and an address (not report) almost completed. [C.C. Catt to Maud Wood Park, Easter Sunday, 1922 - page 2] My! but that was a jolt. Perhaps you had insurance on that blue dress, but no scheme for paying damages on lost reports and speeches has yet been devised. Poor little Maud what a lot of woe has come to her. Big masterly brave Maud, how she does conquer all things! She's my heroine, my hope and abiding faith! Lovingly, (signed) Carrie Chapman Catt Buenos Aires Argentina Jan 31, 1923 My dear Maud: They tell me you have have gone the way of all fashionable people--to the operating table. Well I'm glad of it! To be sure I do not know what the trouble was, but I have great confidence in the effect of cutting off offending members I never had such good health as after I had my little affair and so I'm glad you've met your fate bravely. You will be healthier happier and wiser. Every one is told to be careful after an operation but no one ever is. Then there are penalties Do go slow, dear Maud. An operation is a grand thing when all goes well but it does take time to get the nerves straightened out and back on the job. Do give them time. O, I am so glad you have gone through this thing, what ever it was. You are so precious to us all that we cannot allow any offending spots to annoy you--a damned spot "we all say." I don't know whether you care to read letters or not but I'll append a little business. Of course, you are not likely to go to Rome. Your proxy however, will be the head of the USA delegation, and what is of more importance she will have a seat and vote in the Executive Council which will meet May 9 and I beg you to appoint one who is not merely an ornament. I have enjoyed So. America beyond my anticipation. It has piqued my ambitions and curiosity which was good for me. I have become a real fan for Pan Americanism, but not at all concerned that it will ever work out. I am sure the men will never fetch it about and they have been at it a hundred years. The obstacles which prevent are not unknown to us, but they become more impressive with familiarity. I should say the two greatest difficulties are language and religion. I have been surprised at the small number of persons who speak English They all speak French more or less. Of course N. A. does not speak French and consequently there is no direct intercourse. Nations with no language intermedeary never can or will understand each other. There can be no Pan Americanism that sticks until more N. Americans know Spanish. Of course these countries are Catholic but the problem is not so simple as that sounds. Argentine has state and church united. The Council of Women is Catholic and the liberal thinking women are all outside. In Uruguay there was disunion about four years ago. The Council of Women is composed of anti Catholics or disunion Catholics and all the good Catholics are outside. I'm thinking (called Vollairism) is growing and Protestants are proselyting hard throughout the Continent. Naturally feeling is keen and bitter and ones church affiliations is all important. To unite these separating groups when the immediate influences about them are pulling them apart is a difficult task. I am not giving you details or proof but merely stating the facts now. In the midst of these two great obstacles in the way of uniting the women other hardships are numerous. 1 Most women live under laws similar to ours 50 years ago and are therefore unable to command their own money, or to act independently. 2 The inmorality is tremendous and that means that women are held as sources of gratification by men. 3 The women have gone daft on dress and fashion. I have never seen so much "style" as here and women's thoughts and ambitions are [?] on dress. 4 Women who work - any kind of work has caste and milady who has a husband who pays her bills does not associate intimately with women who work even professional women. I have never found this condition in any other country. 5 Organization among women is exceedingly backward and they have not yet learned how to conduct collective discussion or deliberative meetings. Yet it is so desperately important that we make this Pan American thing go. I am convinced that if the men continue to fail and we women fail too, that one day there will be a union of the Spanish American Republics backing the Mexico and that Brazil with us will be the antagonists and we will repeat in the Western World what Europe has been doing Canada at the command of her mother met to look on and to gobble up the sports. This is certain, dead certain to happen unless we set the counter action going. That is why I've become a Pan A. fan! Here in S. America there are three Councils of Women. They take in most of the organizations of women. That is it would not be possible to form another federation in rivalry that would have any prestige. If there is to be a P.A. Assn it must have these Councils as auxiliaries. Brazil has no Council and organized an Association. Uruguay has a Council and it has voted to be an auxiliary. Argentine has a Council and I think it will unite the Pan American Congress to Buenos Aires. I am pretty confident that if this is done, Chili which has a Council will also join. Now it is clear that so far as South America is concerned there could be no P.A. Ass'n without these three Councils. When they accept auxiliaryship does it not become logic that the Council of the USA must also be the auxiliary from that country? It certainly does. An acquaintance with conditions here also convinces one that the Pan American must be conservative. It can go hard on education and rights for women (omitting divorce) car of children and peace (in general terms) it must not deal heavily with sex questions or labor questions or suffrage. Yet the suffrage has a slightly different status since the women segenerally have the vote, but this is not yet reflected in organization or public expression. Therefore the idea is shaping itself in my mind that we must try for the greatest possible number in the Pan American and let it be run conservatively. But there must be a suffrage section in it where we can gather the delegates from suffrage societies. I cannot bear to think of poor Mrs. Moore trying to rise for this call; so I want the League - you Maud dear - to select a woman like a bee queen and feed her up for the part. You must send delegates first for the home Council and get her elected President there. She must have 1. a fluent use of either French or Spanish, 2. understand organization, 3 dress like a nabob 4 look rich 5 and be as patient as the man with the boils. I am wondering if Mrs. Miller fills the bill. Well then this Queen Bee must come for the next Congress (which I hope will be in Buenos Aires) as head of the NSA delegation and we will make her permanent president. I will see the Congress through up to the election and I will then turn over the wheel to the Bee who can "carry on" while I go back to my garden. I want you first to consider whether you are willing in your mind to let the Council in as leader and second to submit the matter to your board and let me know its answer. I am very anxious that you should come to the next Congress. It is frightfully expensive down here but O so worth while from the standpoint of big things. We have been royally received and the papers have printed many many columns about our mission. In Brazil we were officially received by the Senate. In Uruguay we were entertained at the hotel by the government and two automobiles were at our disposal all the time. We were received by the President and the Premier In Argentina we would have been officially received by the Chamber of Deputies but we had to cancel (led) the arrangement. Thus far we have had nothing but successes and these far in advance of expectation. Dear Maud, keep quiet, let others mind your business, give your nerves a chance and dream of the salvation of the world through Pan Americanism in which brave souled women will lead timid men forward by the scruff of the neck. That is the only way. Hoping to see you at Juniper Lodge when a few more months have rolled by I am Your old pal C.C.C. RECEIVED FEB 1 1928 REFERRED TO M O CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK Jan. 30, 1926. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, 532 Seventeenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Park: I am just up from my bed and not very pert as yet. I congratulate you on your splendid work in Washington. I recognize that the success of the World Court was largely due to the super-management. Enclosed is a letter from Mr. McDonald. What he says about me, is entirely out of the question, but I have replied and said that all the credit he can give to you, is well deserved. Lovingly, Carrie Chapman Catt 59b FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION For a Liberal and Constructive American Foreign Policy NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 9 East Forty-fifth Street, New York City January 28, 1926. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 171 Madison Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt:- We are all delighted that at last the agony is ended. The last few weeks have been anxious ones, but due in large part to the brilliant generalship of Mrs. Park the situation was never out of hand. All of us, however, owe to you a great debt of gratitude for your fearless and inspiring advocacy of the Court throughout the length and breadth of the country. But what I would like to ask you now is:- "What do you think is the next step?" I know, of course, of your suggestion about a Locarno pact with Japan. In addition to this, what do you think we could and should agree upon? Very sincerely yours, Jane G McDonald Chairman. JGM:HS July 26, 1929 Mrs. Maud Wood Park American Express Co. 11 rue Scribe Paris, France My dear Maud: It was a very great pleasure indeed to get your letter. I was very anxious to hear how you were progressing and I was rejoiced to get a bit of your history. From Miss Morgan, Miss Shain, Mrs. Slade and others I heard how splendidly you spoke in Berlin and how delighted everybody was with the service you were able to give. I am glad the convention went off so splendidly but then why should not a twenty-five year celebration be a success and especially when it had been so filled with victories as has the last quarter of a century. I was just on the point of writing you a letter had none been received from you and now comes the letter that I was about to indite. We are feeling a keen responsibility concerning the new situation of the World Court. As a matter of fact it seems a very small thing to take the next step and perfectly ridiculous of the Senate to consider that it can and may defeat the new protocol based on Mr. Root's suggestions, yet there are those who think it will be a hard fight and that the Johnsonites will begin just where they left off and fight the next step upon the ground that it is connecting us with the League of Nations. Lest you have not been told just what this new situation is I will put it to you very briefly. We had all been badgering President Coolidge to take up negotiations concerning the World Court and we got nothing but silence in reply. After about a year of this Mr. Coolidge invited some senators to breakfast and announced that he intended now to take up the question of the World Court. Nothing happened but the announcement was broadcast. We now learn that when Secretary Kellogg and Mr. Coolidge decided to move they did not know how it could be done. The original measure had provided that the reservations of the Senate should be sent to all the signatories of the Court but these signatories did not reply as the measure intended and ordered them to do. Instead, they got together in Geneva and sent a common reply. They did not want to write through the League of Nations or recognize that it existed and they saw that it did no good to write to the countries individually so they sent for Mr. Root and he went down to Washington and brought the news to them that he had been appointed on a committee to take some steps in reference to the American reservations which would be satisfactory to all and this is what he did. When he got to Geneva he explained those reservations as though they had to stand and were very important to the American Nation. Statesmen on the other side began to understand how very important they were and so a new protocol was drawn up in which the European powers virtually accepted all the reservations of the Senate. They did accept the first four but they had to make some slight changes in the fifth but not enough to hurt the feelings of a sensible man. The advantage now is that we may say the reservations have been adopted and it puts us on a new and different basis. We are now engaged in organizing a new committee. We hope to have a National World Court Committee composed of distinguished individuals from every state in the Union and from this committee to have a small hard-working executive committee. A part of this executive committee will be a group of committees the chair of each being a member of this executive committee. -3- These other committees are to work with other organizations having monthly meetings resolutions and whatever may be decided throughout the Country bringing in all the people interested. On the program we will have full explanation of the World Court, of the Kellog Pact and a report on Disarmament as it stands to that day. We will try to make these meetings victory meetings. This committee is in the process of formation now. One meeting of representatives of the chief organizations of the country has been held and a sub-committee was appointed to bring in a completed plan of organization and program of work. I am chairman of that committee. The women on it are Miss Morgan, Miss Shain, Miss Roelofs. The men are Mr. MacDonald, Dr. Gulick, Mr. Linley Gordon, Mr. Nash and Mr. Rich of the World Peace Foundation. This sub-committee met yesterday and has authorized me to write you and to ask if you would not return and serve as Chairman of the Congressional Committee. Our recommendations have not yet been approved nor are they quite completed. Owing to absences we cannot hold the main committee meeting until after Labor Day but we are very anxious to have our machinery ready to start and we expect to report to the main committee the full list of men and women to be invited on the committee of individuals and the chairmen of all the working committees. In the event that our high up committee of distinguished persons fails to be a real working force the sub-committees will go right on and be cooperating through their chairmen. We do want you to have a Congressional committee to your own liking and on it we would want you to have some men like Mr. Jessup who would be strong on the technical side of the protocol and would be at liberty to call on a senator and set him straight if he should get off the trolley. No index has been prepared as to the standing of the Senate on this matter but the League of Women Voters has a young woman, Miss Pitney, who has been at work in Washington and says that there are twenty-two senators who say they will vote against the World -4- Court. I will give you my private opinion that I doubt if this is true or reliable. I should think a call upon all the friendly ones should be made as soon as Congress opens and, perhaps, before in order to introduce yourself in the new capacity and to find out how they stand and what help they would be willing to give. In the meantime, we are hoping to have one very big state meeting in each state which will send a message to the President and Senate. These meetings will be followed by others if needed. We are trying, you see, a new form of organization which we hope will function better than any other has before and, personally, I think the experiment is worth quite as much as getting into the World Court for if this system works well we can use it for the next step whatever it may be. Miss Sherwin has not yet returned. She was going, I think to the Adult Education Convention in Denmark and will be back sometime in August. Miss Morgan thinks that the League would be willing to give up any claims on you for this higher step and, at any rate, the offer will come to you from all the organizations which is a great compliment and expression of confidence. You will understand that I have no authority to make you a definite and positive offer. I told them at the committee meeting yesterday that they must certainly consider paying your expenses in Washington and probably something more. I am now writing to ask you whether you would accept and what the terms would be? We want to get all the chairmen tied p to their jobs before the committee meets immediately after Labor Day. You may want to know when we think you should be here. Of course, nothing can be done until the Council acts upon the protocol in September. It has the power to amend so when it goes to the President it may be somewhat different from that with which we are acquainted. There has been talk about Mr. Kellogg's putting the protocol into the special session but, of course, -5- he cannot do that until after the action is taken in Geneva and then any special sessions that may be on during this summer may have their programs over full. I do not myself think it will come into the Senate before December. There is never very much that can be done in the way of vote taking before Christmas. If a vote on it could be secured by the middle of January it would be very lucky. I would be pleased if you could cable me saying, "yes", with terms. I am not sure that I could cable you since I only know your mail address and I cannot cable acceptance until after the main committee meeting. Our sub-committee of ten were of the opinion that there could be no question about it and Miss Morgan and I feel very certain of it. Do, Maud, pack up your streptococci germ and come home. When we get into the World Court there are two or three things we will have to do before we can sit down and know that we have taken part in the greatest movement the world has ever seen. It took us a hundred years to get woman suffrage you remember but I now think that war will be a thing of the past within the next twenty years or even less. This is not so bad a time to live in as might be. Tell Mabel Willard, "hello" for me and also your friends whom I should know so well. I must report that I am recovering in health right along and that I am about a hundred percent better than I would have been had I gone to Berlin. It was a disappointment not to be there but common sense tells me every day that the wisest thing I ever did was not to go. With love now and always, I am Yours, still hoping, CCC/M COPY National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War 1010 Grand Central Terminal Bldg. New York City General Chairman, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt April 29, 1929 My dear Mrs. Park: I received your cable with much sadness and disappointment. The promised letter has not yet arrived and I had hope that when it should come I would find the obstacles in the way not too insurmountable. Things have moved on a long way since I wrote you. A sub-committee has been working on the problem of how to organize and to get things going. It had its last meeting yesterday. I reported the reply from you and hands went up in despair. The truth is that unless we can find a Congressional Committee which the organizations can trust and which can do the work as it should be done there is no use in forming this National Committee. Each organization will have to go at the problem in its own way and the old conflict will arise as before. The situation is too pressing to be turned over to a new person who is inexperienced in Congressional work and must learn the ropes. No list of how the Senators stand on the new situation is available and such a catalogue of the members of the Senate can scarcely be made before Congress opens. We expect the protocol to come along to the President some time in September and unless the signatories to the Court see fit to add something in the way of Amendments it probably will come without prejudice to the American people. We are planning to get our evidence in the first of November showing how public opinion favors the Court. The President will probably present it when Congress opens. The obstacles in the way are these: The Hearst papers have been fighting the Court for a year. Their comments are presented under large captions which cross the entire head of a page. They are questions and answers usually which are incorrect but very appealing. It seems the Republicans were a good deal startled at the result of some of the elections of Senators last fall. The most outstanding case was that of Senator McKinley of Illinois who had voted for the World Court and Illinois had had a powerful opposition. He was defeated, it is said, because of his stand on the World Court. It is believed by the Republicans that the Ku Klux Klan did the business and that this was due to their claim that the Court and the League of Nations are both controlled by the Catholic Church. How much truth there may be in the cause of Senator McKinley's defeat I do not know. It seems clear that it frightened the Republicans. I got this straight from an eminent gentleman who was told it by leading Republicans including the President in Washington. page 2, C.C.Catt to Maud Wood Park, Aug. 29, 1929 The third opposition is that represented by Senator Johnson who thinks that the situation now opens up the entire question of the World Court and a back door entrance into the League of Nations. Our attitude is that when a parliamentary body asks to be admitted into the World Court announcing that it will condescend to join such a body provided such and such reservations may be recognized and all the other members of the Court agree to accept all those reservations that the aforesaid parliamentary body cannot ethically nor parliamentarily say, "This is all very well but we have another reservations or two that we did not get in before.", and this we understand is just what they want to do. It is reported to us, but without sufficient foundation for me to believe, that twenty-two Senators are outspoken against the Court. That is of sufficient strength to make us all anxious as to what may be done. The actual question is in itself of little importance but the failure of the Senate after having applied for admission with reservations to honorably meet its own terms is too humiliating to face with composure. Whatever may be the problems elsewhere it is clear that the most important one in this country is to overcome this little difficulty now remaining and get us into the World Court. There was a great campaign before and it is not expected to have so big a one this time. We think it would be out of place but the whole thing must depend upon our Congressional Committee. We simply have no one person to suggest and if you cannot come I, myself, am not in favor of having this committee at all. It might fall upon Mrs. Morgan and this, I think, would be fatal. It might fall upon upon Miss Lape and she too is not dependable. If these two women and any aides they might get could really get us into the World Court I would think it a good idea to let them do it but I am much afraid that one or both will make a blunder which will succeed in keeping us out. All the organizations are agreed that they will trust you and no one has a nomination of a substitute. I do not know what the engagements are that hold you away from home. If it is merely staying in Europe over winter let me say that there are other winters when there may be nothing to do but here is an emergency and a climax of everything done before and you alone can see it through. How I wish I could talk with you and tell you more of the situation! Dear Maude, this is a call from Macedonia. If you do not come home and do this job for the good of the world I am thinking of raising a fund and erecting a monument to you which should announce to all the world, "She killed the World Court". Does that frighten you? How can I tease or beg any more? What can I say that will turn your experience, your tact and your judgment upon this situation? We are organizing so as to have a few devoted souls do the work but it is useless without you. We trained you up especially for this job. Do come, I pray you. Alice Blackwell has just sent me a book of poems. Poems take the place of everything with her. It is wonderful how well she translates them. They have just arrived and I have not read them yet but she tells me that she is working hard on the biography of her parents and regrets that it is not as thrilling a story as that of Madame Breschkovski who is now eight-five years old. page 3, C.C.Catt to Maud Wood Park, Aug. 29, 1929 Do come, Maude, and let me hear from you. There is scarcely time for you to get over here. We need you now. It will be time for you to begin as soon as you land on our soil. Lovingly yours, (signed) CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT P. S. This appeal is not personal. It comes from the entire committee of men and women. They are all great, earnest souls. CCC/M Mrs. Maude Wood Park American Express Co. Rue Scribe Paris, France COPY (Letter from Mrs. Catt to Maud Wood Park concerning her work for the World Court. Original in Woman's Rights Collection at Radcliffe College) Sunday, September 1, 1929 My dear Maud: I mailed you a letter at 6 P. M. and received yours at 9 A. M. the next morning. It is the labor day weekend and no one can be reached. They have all gone away and left no address. The main committee meets on Thursday, Sept. 5 to hear our recommendations. I am writing you a hurried note as a P.S. to my last. The Committee will offer you a good expense account or a liberal agreement to pay all your expenses. I mean to try for a private offer of some additional money not to be reported to the Committee so that you may feel free. I will myself give $500 toward this sum. The job may be over in three months (I think it will) and you can go back to Europe if you want to. Meanwhile Miss Willard can superintend your friend. Come, O Maud you never were so much needed anywhere. Come. Very hastily, always affectionately, (signed) CARRIE C CATT Tell those two girls to take care of themselves and save the world! C.C.C. (Editor's note: The "girls" referred to were Mrs. Park's traveling companions in Europe, Miss Helen Biscoe and Miss Mabel Caldwell Willard.) COPY (Letter to Maud Wood Park from Carrie Chapman Catt about the World Court campaign in Washington, with reference to Mr. Hoover and his plan, and "A Senator named Vandenberg". (Original in Woman's Rights Collection at Radcliffe College) October 31, 1930 Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Eastland, Portland, Maine My dear Maud: I have been thinking and thinking and thinking very much about you and I never knew that you had come back to this country. I have been picturing you as spending another winter in Europe. That shows how much I miss by being a retired refugee. Well, I am glad that you are here. I am glad that Helen Biscoe is feeling better and I would like to know very much how your long absence has treated you. How are those germs with a long name? Have they disappeared or are they still making you some trouble? I am very glad that I am going to have a blue bag. I shall buy a blue dress to match it. I was expecting to be held up by you at some time or place and an explanation demanded for my silence after having sent you a wild cable. I might, perhaps, be able to explain it by conversation, although I doubt if any explanation at all would make you understand the ridiculous predicaments through which the supporters for the World Court have been treading. So far as I can make out, Mr. Hoover has a program of his own. He has written it down in a private book which he keeps under lock and key. In that book is an explanation that he can expect only one thing at a time out of the Senate and that one thing will be of his choosing and not theirs. So he got the idea that he did not have votes enough in the Senate for the World Court and there were other things which he thought more important; therefore, the measure had a string tied to it. It was thrown in the pond by interviews or newspaper secrets and then jerked out again. We believed that we were on the verge of a campaign in the Senat without suitable preparation at the time I telegraphed you. Before the telegram reached you, the whole measure had been pulled out of the pond again and we did not know what to do next. I waited until something should turn up and meanwhile, we were trying to turn it, but nothing happened. Different committees went to see Mr. Hoover and others sat on his doorstep. They saw that they could not make "head nor tail" of what he thought or what he would do. A Senator names Vanderberg has said that he had been asked by Mr. Hoover to lead the debate and vote in the Senate when the World Court should come up. They also say that this is true in Washington. Now, this precious gentleman, having read that Cuba has not ratified the World Court protocols, has written Mr. Hoover that he will not lead the debate and that if he is in the Senate when the matter comes up, he will not even vote for it. These senators seem to be more page 2 - C.C.Catt to Maud Wood Park - World Court - Oct. 31, 1930 boyish, ignorant, and stupid than they were at another time when we were interested in the affairs of the Senate. No human being knows when that World Court business will come into the Senate. Certainly not in the short session and I would not be surprised if a long time elapsed before we heard about it again. The reason you did not hear from me was because every day we were expecting a development which would give us some definite knowledge which would lead us to plan our own procedure. That knowledge never came and has not yet arrived. You may, perhaps, be going somewhere or doing something so that you pass this way. Do come and stay a bit with me. I do not think I have anything very interesting to tell you, but you have a very interesting audience to hear about all that you have been doing. More, I want to see how you look. There is a lot of work in you yet and there is much to be done. I want to see how prepared you are for doing it. I shall be going soon and I want to see that the women are all organized to fight hard for something or other. Yours lovingly, (signed) CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Decenber 6, 1930. Mrs. Maud Wood Park. The Eastland. Portland, Maine. My dear Maud: I make haste to reply to your letter and to say that every bit of the money I sent was for your own uses, whatever they may be. If the thing that satisfies you most is to give it to someone else, it is your privilege to do so. I am writing in very great haste as there are many things I must do before the sun sets. I went down to Washington for two days. My business was to see the World Court Committee and size it up and to meet with the Committee of Arrangements and the Publicity Chairman of the coming Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. In addition, I went to a dinner of the Joint Congressional. They certainly looked like a fine group of women. I mention all this in order to tell you how sweetly the Joint Congressional Committee spoke of you and your virtues. They love and admire you truly. There is still a hope in some people's understanding that before spring you may be persuaded to come to Washington. I do not know if they have any other idea in mind except the World Court work. If that is the thing, I do not think there is a ghost of a chance of its coming to a head during this Congress. It will get in and it may get through the Foreign Relations Committee and there it will stay until they have voted each other to the finish on several other questions. The truth of the matter is that no human being knows whether the World Court could get through this Congress anyway and a great many people feel that it is better sense not to bring it to a vote. This seems to be the idea that is most prevalent, so I pas it on to you. I had scarcely read your letter when another one from dear Mabel Willard and a package containing the new Greek bag, all done up in a Christmas box, arrived. I was just going to a luncheon of workers in New Rochelle, so it went with me on its first mission. I did not get much opportunity to show it off, but I did a little. It was very sweet of you to bring it, but I see you could not help buy it because of the color. The color is just right for me and I shall have to get a dress or two to match it. I thank you very much. It delights me to have you say you are coming to see me. I shall be here all the time until I go to the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War and when that is over I shall be here forevermore thereafter. I shall be very glad to see you and nothing could interfere unless it might be some other guests. It is true that I am going to be pretty busy until after the Conference in -2- Washington and a visit would, therefore, would be a little more convenient after I return from there. I may, also, have more of interest to tell you, yet you need not delay coming if, for any reason, it is more convenient for you to come soon. I shall be more glad than I can express to see you whenever you come. Very lovingly yours, The Eastland, Portland, Maine, Nov. 29, 1930. Dear Great Lady, I know you'll say "Thanks be!" when you see that I'm learning to use a type writer. Iv'e been taking a few lessons and practicing in odd hours, but I'm still very slow and not accurate at the business. So you mustn't expect much yet. That dear, dear letter of yours came yesterday, Thanksgiving, just as I was starting out to dinner with one of my neighbors at the shore. I certainly felt that I had a great deal to be thankful for when you took time and thought to write that letter to such an unsatisfactory person as I must seem. It was a wonderfully kind, too, to include me among the women chosen to share your award, every penny of which -- and a million times more -- belongs to you and you alone. I am so convinced of that fact that my first impulse was to ask you to let me return the check, though I realized how sincerely you want me to have the benefit of it. This morning I feel differently because I've thought of two ways in which it can be used if you don't disapprove. I should like to give fifty dollars to Mrs. Harriet Eager, one of our old suffrage workers in Massachusetts. She is left late in life without anyone who belongs to her and only a little house down on the Cape which ought not to be lived in except in summer. I doubt that she has income enough to buy more than the barest necessities, for I've just had a letter saying that unless something unexpected turns up she is going to stay in her house this winter. I promised myself to send her a little money for Christmas, but it could be only a little; and I am sure that fifty dollars now would seem like a godsend, particularly as I can explain how it came and thus spare her pride. The tragedy of good -2- people who have no provision for old age hurts me more than any other. The second half of your check I want to put aside for expenses of a trip to New York to see you. I should have asked you before to let me come for a day if I had not hesitated to take the money out of my small income just at this time. I really have enough to live on when I stay put, but with the doctors' bills to be met I have to budget pretty closely for a while. My proposal looks a good deal like letting you pay my expenses for a visit, as well as my entertainment while I'm with you, but I'll try to think of your gift as a suffrage perquisite which your undeserved generosity has provided. If the Conference on Cause and Cure is as exacting as in past years, I'm sure that you would rather have me postpone my visit until it is over and you have had a few minutes to rest and perhaps that would be a little better for me, though, except for the four days from December twelfth to sixteenth, I can go at any time convenient for you, provided that I don't try to see anyone else or break treatment by ? awfully -- to see with my own eyes how you are and to hear with my own ears what you have been doing in the nearly two years since I was at your house on the eve of sailing. Since I started this letter a bell boy has brought me "Outwitting Middle Age". I'm immensely intrigued by the title and still more by your nonsensical inscription. I certainly am middle aged plus, but you will never be an old lady, You just can't play the part, not if you try a hundred years. I shall devote this evening to the book and every coming one until I've "read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested" all its good advice. Thank you with all my heart for this and all the other evidences of your care for my well being! I've felt so long that nobody could -3- ever repays thousandth part of what you have done for women collectively and individually that perhaps I accept these kindnesses more easily than otherwise I could. With love and deep appreciation yours, Maud P. S. I've forgotten to tell you the best thing I know about myself- I'm beginning to sleep a lot again. -3- ever repay a thousandth part of what you have done for women collectively and individually that perhaps I accept these kindnesses more easily than otherwise I could. With love and deep appreciation yours, ? P.S. I've forgotten to tell you the best thing I know about myself- I'm beginning to sleep a lot again. Copy of letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Maud Wood Park. Original in the Woman's Rights Room at Radcliffe College. Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York. April 18, 1933. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Eastland Hotel, Portland, Maine. My dear Maud: I am sorry you cannot come down to the luncheon, but I hardly expected that you would be here. It is no great occasion, but it is always nice to meet those old co-workers and find out what they have been up to. Of course you will have to refrain from pleasure trips and so will all of us for when it has not been one thing, it has been another in the way of squeezing one's income. There is a question of my going out to the Chicago Exposition where there is a Woman's Conference. I sometimes think I ought to go and perhaps they will look at me as curiously as forty years ago they looked at Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony. They will be glad to see such a nice old lady as I am! On the other hand, when I think of it more in reality, I think I had better stay away from it. I remember that when the Blackwells went back to Boston, which they did before that meeting was quite over, I went down to the station and walked out to the gate with Lucy Stone. She did look so sick and tired and I guess they went home on her account, At any rate, I never saw her again and she went to bed and never got up. That is not a good result f=of too much ambition. Then we have talked of going somewhere for next winter. We might even find a place to go where it is cheaper than to stay at home. I do not think we shall be able to drive up to Maine in September. At that time we make preserves, pickles, and all kinds of things which are very important. It is very kind of you to invite us, but I think you can depend on our not being there. I have a nice letter from Mrs. Irwin and she has certainly been quite square about the National American Women Suffrage Association. She actually did not know a think about it.She actually believed that everything of consequence what was achieved was done by Woman's Party! She supposed that they had won the vote and that the rest if us were a lot of old chumps. I found that she had not read much and did not know much about anything, but now she has been so fair and square as to try to find out the truth and has written us a chapter. I am sure she had done the best she knows how. Very recently I have read a manuscript from a woman whose name sounds familiar, but I cannot place her. I fancy she is a young woman. page 2. Copy of letter from C.C.Catt to Maud Wood Park,April 18, 1933. She has written a small book and she calls it "Ladies in Revolt". Her ladies are the very early pioneers, beginning with Mary Wolstonecraft. She has written most of it rather brilliantly and interestingly and it is quite clear that she thinks the women movement began about one hundred years ago and that all that was interesting in it was well over when the Convention of 1848 was held in Seneca Falls! Now Mrs. Brown is writing a book as I wrote you. It is mostly about the campaign in New York which I think it good. She begins in 1910 at which time she was converted to woman suffrage. She does not think that anything of great importance happened before that date. Both of these contributions are going to be of great value to the accumulation necessary to tell the world about the woman suffrage movement. Mrs. Irwin's books will have its uses too and perhaps it will not be so wrong as it would have been had we not contributed our criticism. I was intensely interested in your account of many things concerning the Congressional struggle to get the Amendment submitted. I hope, in writing your memoirs (although, of course, you will not call it that), you will put all those things into it, The more of the old chaps you talk about who are dead and gone when it is published, the better. There are two slight errors in your memorandum. 1. Weeks was defeated in Massachusetts and Salisbury was also defeated in Delaware by precisely the same process. I went down to Delaware, just as I went to Massachusetts, and talked to the women. They held up their hands in horror at the prospect, but a Committee was finally organized and they went to work. I do not think the women, alone, did it in Delaware. I do not understand how it did come off. I suspect it was Labor for Salisbury had voted against every bill that was at all favorable to Labor. You will remember that we needed two votes and those were the two we got. 2. That sting, given to the states, of work to be done which would lead to our enfranchisement, happened not at Atlantic City but at Indianapolis where we had a Council meeting. We went there without publicity or social entertainments and had out meetings continuously for two days at the Claypool Hotel. Do you remember that? It was a very useful thing to have done. Generally, when there is going to be a meeting at which important business should be discussed, whether it is for men or women, they have to waste a lot of time over social things and interruptions of one kind or another. At Atlantic City it was decided that there was no way to finally get full intention to give the Convention every opportunity to think out its own problem and if it concluded to keep the Shafroth Amendment I planned to resign. I never mentioned that to anybody. Of course, they decided there to drop the Shafroth Amendment and stick to the Federal Amendment. We then had a meeting in Indianapolis some months later. I am trusting my memory for this, but if you want to know the facts, I guess I could find them for you. I think the worst of the story about ratification has been told in Mrs. Shuler's and my book, but it is not very brilliantly related and I think a review of the ratification stories should go in with your Federal Amendment. page 3. Copy of letter from C.C.Catt to M.W.Park, April 18,1933 Of course the publishers are very skeptical of manuscripts which do not show an inclination to b e good sellers. I do not think the time will ever come when the suffrage story will be a particularly popular theme for publishers. Suffragists, however, must see that these things are published and put into libraries. That is the main thing. I say, therefore, go ahead with your book. Work at it just as hard as you can and when it is finished, let us see what can be done with it. I think it is more important that your manuscript be printed than the one I have just told you about concerning the early history, although that is useful also. Probably you are not the type of writer to take a dull theme and make it scintillate with thrilling interest. None of us had those gifts. Mrs. Upton wrote some memoirs and anagent, after placing the manuscript, wanted to "English" it. She permitted that to be done to one chapter, but when it was finished, she said there was no sense of humor left in it. I do not know whether she ever g ave them another chance or not. She said it had to be printed as she had written it or not at all; therefore, it is not printed. Nevertheless, some editing might be done by somebody with special gifts in that direction. Do not let that interfere with your story. You alone know the inside story of the Federal Amendment and you must tell it for the benefit of truth. Very lovingly yours, (postscript in Mrs. Catt's writing: "I supposed this letter had been mailed when it was written. It was written at the office and brought home in my brief case and got buried. It has just come to light." Lovingly, (signed) Carrie C.Catt page 2. Copy of letter from C.C.Catt to Maud Wood Park,April 18,1933. She has written a small book and she calls it "Ladies in Revolt". Her ladies are the very early pioneers, beginning with Mary Wolstonecraft. She has written most of it rather brilliantly and interestingly and it is quite clear that she thinks the woman movement began about one hundred years ago and that all that was interesting in it was well over when the Convention of 1848 was held in Seneca Falls! Now Mrs. Brown is writing a book as I wrote you. It is mostly about the campaign in New York which I think is good. She begins in 1910 at which time she was converted to woman suffrage. She does not think that anything of great importance happened before that date. Both of these contributions are going tobe of great value to the historical accumulation necessary to tell the world about the woman suffrage movement. Mrs. Irwin's book will have its uses too and perhaps it will not be so wrong as it would have been had we not contributed our criticism. I was intensely interested in your account of many things concerning the Congressional struggle to get the Amendment submitted. I hope, in writing your memoirs (although, of course, you will not call it that), you will put all those things into it. The more of the old chaps you talk about who are dead and gone when it is published, the better. There are two slight errors in your memorandum. 1. Weeks was defeated in Massachusetts and Salisbury was also defeated in Delaware by precisely the same process. I went down to Delaware, just as I went to Massachusetts, and talked to the women. They held up their hands in horror at the prospect, but a Committee was finally organized and they went to work. I do not think the women, alone, did it in Delaware. I do not understand how it did come off. I suspect it was Labor for Salisbury had voted against every bill that was at all favorable to Labor. You will remember that we needed two votes and those were the two we got. [*(NB-MWP) Mrs. Pack's ???? correct ????? ?????? organised work no ????????.*] 2. That stint, given to the s tates, of work to be done which would lead to our enfranchisement, happened not at Atlantic City but at Indianapolis, where we had a Council meeting. We went there without publicity or social entertainments and had our meetings continuously for two days at the Claypool Hotel. Do you remember that? It was a very useful thing to have done. Generally, when there is going to be a meeting at which important business should be discussed, whether it is for men or women, they have to waster a lot of time over social things and interruptions of one kind or another. At Atlantic City [*Atlantic City ?? Indianapolis*] it was decided that there was no way to finally get suffrage except by Federal Amendment. I recall well that it was my full intention to give the Convention every opportunity to think out its own problem and if it concluded to keep the Shafroth Amendment I planned to resign. I never mentioned that to anybody. Of course, they decided there to drop the Shafroth Amendment and stick to the Federal Amendment. We then had a meeting in Indianapolis some months later. I am trusting my memory for this, but if you want to know the facts, I guess I could find them for you. I think the worst of the story about ratification has been told in Mrs. Shuler's and my book, but it is not very brilliantly related ad I think a review of the ratification stories should go in with your Federal Amendment. page 3. Copy o f letter from C.C.Catt to M.W.Park, April 18,1933 Of course the publishers are very skeptical of manuscripts which do not show an inclination to b e good sellers. I do not think the time will ever come when the suffrage story will be a particularly popular theme for publishers. Suffragists, however, must see that these things are published and put into libraries. That is the main thing. [*\\*] I say, therefore, go ahead with your book. Work at it just as hard as you can and when it is finished, let us see what can be done with it. I think it is more important that your manuscript be printed than the one I have just told you about concerning the early history, although that is useful also. Probably you are not the type of writer to take a dull theme and make it scintillate with thrilling interest. None of us had those gifts. Mrs. Upton wrote some memoirs and anagent, after placing the manuscript, wanted to "English" it. She permitted that to be done to one chapter, but when it was finished, she said there was no sense of humor left in it. I do not know whether she ever gave them another chance or not. She said it had to be printed as she had written it or not at all; therefore, it is not printed. Nevertheless, some editing might be done by somebody with special gifts in that direction. Do not let that interfere with your story. You alone know the inside story of the Federal Amendment and you must tell it for the benefit of truth. [*\\*] Very lovingly yours, (postscript in Mrs. Catt's writing: "I supposed this letter had been mailed when it was written. It was written at the office and brought home in my brief case and got buried. It has just come to light.") Lovingly, (signed) Carrie C.Catt Cape Cottage, Maine, May 25,'1933. Dear Great Lady, This is in reply to your letter of April 18th and May 15th. The first of these would have had an earlier answer if I had not been moving, having my house painted and more or less superintending the annual meeting of the local league of women voters and also the state convention of the league, which was held this year in Portland. As to the possibility of your coming to Maine, I shall not give up hope. I suggested late September as the most beautiful season, but if you must stay with the preserve kettle at that time why not come earlier or later? I shall probably be here all summer, for it does not look as if I should be able to rent my house for more.than a third of the usual amount, inasmuch as Portland is very hard hit by the bank closings. And so i should be happy to welcome you whenever you could come. In the matter of the inaccuracies which you found in my notes for Inez Irwin I had to laugh'over the entertaining fact that even you and I should not wholly agree as to details. But I think there is no real disagreement, I don't doubt for an instant that it was your stimulation that started the campaigns against Weeks and Saulsbury. My point was that I suggested to the committee which had undertaken to fight Weeks that they should try to change the normally Republican Jewish vote in Massachusetts on the ground that Weeks had done his best to prevent the confirmatio of Brandeis. In the case of Saulsbury we were greatly delayed in starting because Curtis had [great] difficulty in getting his opponent pledged in advance to the Amendment and we didn't want to give aid to another anti, even though we were anxious to fight at least one Democrat because Weeks and Moses, whom the Nation[al] was alsom campaigning against, were both Republicans. It was really Saulsbu[ry] labor record which defeated him and, as that fact was generally known, we didn't get as much prestige in Washington from his defeat as from that of Weeks. In regard to your point about the place where you presented the nation wide campaign plan, I'm sure that I heard you give it at the post convention Council meeting in Atlantic City, for I was there, whereas I never saw Indianapolis until I spoke there for the League of Women Voters several years lat later. So I think what probably happened was that you cutlined the plan at Atlantic City and later had a meeting at Indianapolis to push the work. Now that I have started on the subject of records, let me say that I had planned to make my own account of the closing years of the Congressi[on]al work so frank that I should hesitate to have it published during my life time. Perhaps I could modify or omit sufficiently to make an earlier use possible, but I should have to think about that a little. Anyhow I do appreciate very warmly your interest in the matter. In regard to the [Marathon] round tables I still [????] Mrs. Godfrey spoken of as the best possibility for state chairman, except for the fact that she may not have money enough to travel. As I wrote you last year, I do not really know her, though I have met her as state conventions of the League of Women Voters. The next person whom I think of is miss Grace Allyn, Sylvansite, South Portland. She is a former president of the local Business and Professional Women's Club and of the League of Women Voters she was secretary of the League of Nations Committee here. She runs a gift shop in Portland, though she must have other means of income, and she knows everybody and goes everywhere. She is decidedly plain to look at, dresses well, and speaks very acceptably. Her mother died a few weeks and possibly that loss might make her unwilling to accept new responsibility. On the other hand it might make her better able to undertake a new activity. I plan to st[a]rt my own round table with my neighbors here on the shore and hope to have the first meeting on June [2]nd. So if you can let me have ten or fifteen copies of the plan - I have only one new - I will do my best. A great deal of love to you, Dear Lady! Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York November 25, 1930. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Eastland Hotel, Portland, Maine. My dear Maud: I think you took the right course in trying to clear yourself of cold germs. I thought that was a good thing for me to do because I, also, catch cold rather easily and when I do, I sometimes get some form or pneumonia. I thought the next time I got it, it would probably send me into the Beyond, so I consulted two doctors and both of them advised against taking the treatments, saying they are rather un- reliable as there are so many kinds of cold germs, the right kind might not be intimidated. You need not be discouraged on that account, but I am telling you what my doctor said. One of them finally said that he would inoculate me if I wanted it and then he went away to attend a Medical Congress and while he was gone I got a cold. I sent for the second doctor and while I had him, I consulted him about the matter. Both of these two young men gave me the same reply. (About cold germs and inoculation) I have had a good deal of experience with doctors during the last two years and I have come to a conclusion. It is this. A young person with a cold, or pneumonia, or something of the kind, is a straight ease for the doctor's attention, but when people have something com- plicated like yours and mine and many other cases, I think the one thing that ought to be done is to secure a blood examination and a hunt made for germs. When the germs are found, the cause of the infection that is causing the trouble in the body is discovered. The next thing is for the doctor to chase those germs out of the body. I think that, sometimes, they do not know how to do this and that is our misfortune. When, however, they practice on us without knowing what germs are inside us, their treatment is of little effect. You evidently have some germs that did not get properly "dished" in your last treatment. I do not think the cold inoculation is just what you need. I feel worried about you and I am sure that you can be cured and be as healthy and husky as your age entitles you to be. I am afraid you are not going on the right track to arrive there. I went to the best doctor in this town and I did not get the kind of treatment that I thought was doing me the most possible good. He examined my heart and I was told to take this much digitalis, etc. When my hands and feet began to get numb, I went to this same doctor, but he never said a word about them. In two weeks those hands and feet were worse, but still he had nothing to say. I called in a younger doctor and I began by giving him a "laying out". I told him that when people get along in years, they lose their faith in doctors because the doctors act as though nothing can be done and it is all a result of old age. I told him that if he would examine me and tell me I am too old to be helped, I would be satisfied, but if there was anything he could do to make my last years any more comfortable, I wanted him (about Doctors) Mrs. Park, continued. Page 2 to do it. I challenged him and then I prescribed for myself. My prescription, with the aid of a doctor, has done me a lot of good. I think I am the best doctor in this country! I have been taking a tonic containing iron, although, to be sure, the doctor found the medicine for me. I have been coming up and up and up until now I am in good health in every respect, excepting my hands and feet, but they are much better than they were. Now why, in all these years of going to doctors for my failing health, did no one ever thing of that iron tonic? I cannot say. Now I have prescribed something else for myself and I intend to break the news to my doctor this afternoon. I have bought a sun lamp and expect to take off my clothes and tan my back in its glow and probably come out of the operation a nice, young flapper. Now, I want to tell you, Maud, that if you are ever going to get well, you will have to get loose from the doctors and prescribe for your- self. Just think it out yourself. I am sending you a book out of which I got the pep to prescribe for myself. It was given me by a doctor who has been a friend of mine for many, many years, but who does not live nearby. I have read this book from start to finish and am reading it over again. I do not want to insult your doctor. When I say mean things about doctors, I mean my doctors and not yours. Your doctor, however, will approve of this book. You know that I received $5,000 as an "Achievement Award because of my work for Woman Suffrage and for Peace, so the manager of the Pictorial Review said. Of course Peace has not yet been achieved and Woman Suffrage has so long been achieved that not many of the hardest workers are still here and most of these who are here are well enough off to take care of themselves generally. I decided to share some of that money with suffragists who also had joined in the collective achievement and send them a share of the suffrage award, so I picked out ten women and to each of the ten I have sent $100. I enclose $100. for you. You really are not quite old enough, when compared with the other suffragists to whom I have sent money, but compared with the other suffragists to whom I have sent money, but when it comes to hard work and real achievement, you deserve it and certainly you need it to help pay the doctor's bills. I hope you can buy something with it that will really give you some pleasure. (gift from achievement award of Pictorial Review) After having sent $1,000 to suffragists, I gave $2,000 to twenty peace societies, $100 to each one. These peace societies are now in their work about where we were in the heighth of our struggle. The remainder I have given to the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. I gave myself a little present. It is an Encyclopedia Brittanica with a nice reading lamp on the little table that goes with it. Then I made a codicil to my will and willed it to Miss Peck. Then I gave my old one to a woman who had none. I had to stop in the business of sending out checks before the luncheon which the Pictorial Review gave me at Sherry's because there were so many other things that had to be done. I am just finishing up the job now. I am not going to take the time just now to write you about the World Court, but I think a little story about it will interest you and I shall write that later. Blessings on you, dear Maud. If my sun-lamp works as it should, I will invite you to come down her and share my sanitarium. Perhaps. -2- if I tan up your back for you, it will be better than the cold serums. Lovingly yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.