CATT, Carrie Chapman GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Peck, Mary Gray 1925 Hotel Alcazar. Florida East Coast Hotel Company. Flagler System. Hotel Ponce de Leon. Robert Murray, M'G'R. Hotel Alcazar, J.P. Tilton, M'G'R. Hotel Ormond, L.R. Johnston, M'G.R' The Breakers, J.W. Greene, M'G'R. Hotel Royal Poinciana, H.E. Bemis, M'G'R. Hotel Royal Palm, Jos. P. Greaves, M'G'R. Hotel Royal Victoria, J.W. Greene, M'G'R. Long Key Fishing Camp, L.P. Schutt, M'G.R. Casa Marina, L.P. Schutt, M'G'R. J.P. Tilton, Manager 2 Feb. 26, 1925 St. Augustine, Fla. was the geni of the state. Alas if you had only settled here. Of course I did not know that I was coming here when I first told you of the plan. It was substituted for Jacksonville very late. It happens that we have finished our job and the entire party left this morning at 6 a.m. and I am alone for two days here. Of course I did not know much about my program. I find now that I have made 15 speeches in 12 days and that two of those days more spent in travel. It has been rather hard on us in Southern Florida where I was so hot. There wasn't much time for play anywhere and the climate made me tired and sleepy. Well you should have written me a note saying that you were headed the other way instead of taking that long expensive journey to Daytonah - but you have done another town! I wonder if you met with the Flagler Memorial Church here. We had our meeting there last night. It is the most beautiful small church I have ever seen What a glorious time that old chap had spending his money! Now I am in route for Washington (Hotel Washington) where I shall arrive Mch 2. I am reading proof there and perhaps wait for a possible conference on March 9. I will get back to New York in that event Mch 10. I think then four speaking dates in the vicinity and the business of cleaning out the Headquarters is on hand. Mrs. Langer has invited D Jacobs to come over for a HOTEL ALCAZAR J. P. TILTON, Manager St. Augustine, Fla. FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL COMPANY. -FLAGLER SYSTEM- HOTEL PONCE DE LEON, ROBERT MURRAY, M'G'R. HOTEL ALCAZAR, J. P. TILTON, M'G'R. HOTEL ORMOND, L. R. JOHNSTON, M'G'R. THE BREAKERS, J. W. GREENE, M'G'R. HOTEL ROYAL POINCIANA, H. E. SEMIS, M'G'R. HOTEL ROYAL PALM, JOS. P. GREAVES, M'G'R. HOTEL ROYAL VICTORIA, J. W. GREENE, M'G'R. LONG KEY FISHING CAMP, L. P SCHUTT, M'G'R. CASA MARINA. L. P SCHUTT, M'G'R. 3 birch control convention on about Mch 25. She has replied that she will come if they will guarantee her $400 to pay for a month's stay. The Convention is at the McAlpin and she will stay there! She thinks we are at Bretton Hall! This we got from Rosa to whom she had written If it were not for those engagements I have made I'd fly. As it is, we may change hotels! I've dreaded that foreign delegation not knowing how many would pay me an endless visit. Dr J and Miss H hate each other with ferver. Maybe I told you this story in Datonah but I don't think I knew it then Poor Mary, when she goes sight seeing she needs a guide. You needn't lay the blame upon the seductiveness of my charms! No one but you ever discovered I had any charms and of course you are an ass! You said it yourself. Forget Daytona as fast as you can and consider that you saw Florida at its worst. Its a balmy winter spot. This is less crazy than most places and the Alcazar is a wonderful hotel, so I am in a more forgiving mood. Well the death of Sen. Mediel is a shock. Within his circle he will be missed. They had ambitions for him but the world can get on without him - only 48 Seems to me hearts are getting rather unreliable. Job Hedges yesterday. Mediel McCormick today and a lot of less well Ruonn folks wether a week dropped off because their hearts wouldn't work anymore. In the event the conference does not take place on the 9th I am likely HOTEL ALCAZAR FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL COMPANY. -FLAGLER SYSTEM- HOTEL PONCE de LEON ROBERT MURRAY, MGR HOTEL ALCAZAR J P TILTON, MGR HOTEL ORMOND L R JOHNSTON, MGR THE BREAKERS J W GREENE, MGR HOTEL ROYAL POOINCIANA H L BEMIS, MGR HOTEL ROYAL PALM JOS P GREAVES, MGR HOTEL ROYAL VICTORIA J W GREENE, MGR LONG KEY FISHING CAMP L P SCHUTT, MGR CASA MARINA L P SCHUTT, MGR to get home about the 5th - nothing certain about this. Now Mary stop being foolish. Enjoy Mobile - rest up and get home about April 10 or later. That is time enough to make a garden. I don't think we will get up to Clifton Springs this year. If the Doctor orders Mollie south next winter and it isn't convenient to go to California I'll bring her to St Augustine - that's something to have learned when I told her that you asked if I was in earnest about going to California in a car with you as [*de????d*] I said I was. Her reply was that I might be crazy but she wasn't! - which interpreted means that's off - probably Dear Mary I love you (no 6) because I cannot help it. Lovingly, Carrie C Catt CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE New York June 10, 1925. Miss Mary G. Peck, R.F.D. 3, Clifton Springs, N.Y. Dear Mary: Have I officially informed you that I now have a delivery at R.F.D. 2, Ossining, New York? I have a letter dated May 23rd, but I do not know whether it came by this new procedure or around the road from box 395. Our mail is delivered every morning at 9:30 A.M. and when Miss Wald puts letters in the box at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, they get here the next morning. More, we put letters in the box for mailing in the early morning and they get to New York that same night. We have no chauffeur and no car. We have an arrangement with a taxi man in Ossining who comes out and gets us twice a week and takes us to market. It also takes us or our friends to and from the railroad station. The result is that peace reigns on this farm as it never did before. The Western Union at Ossining telephones and reads to us any telegrams that come and we can send telegrams through them by telephone. We are, therefore, in connection with the great world (all of it that is agreeable) and all matters are promptly attended to by these modern conveniences at a comparatively small cost. Are you going to visit me this summer? I hope so, but my friends have to choose their time owing to the limited number of beds. Your visits have always been too brief. Please bear that in mind in setting the next date. We rather prefer to have our guests come on week-ends and a week-end begins on Friday and never ends until Tuesday. It may continue quite a while after that. The reason why we prefer week-ends is that it gives us time to rest up between guests. At this present moment Mollie is in Indiana attending a Federation meeting and that will probably be her only outing during the summer. On the day she returns, I am leaving for two days to secure that honorary degree offered me by Smith College. After that I shall remain on the farm all summer. Occasionally I do go into town to meet with various committee and to keep in touch with what is not being done to bring peace in the world. I will have some very nice gossip to regale you when you come. Bertha Lutz and Mrs. De Calvo of Panama spent the last week-end here and that will be the last of the foreigners. Miss Hay's sister is coming for a month and gets here, I believe, on the 19th of July; otherwise, dates are open and early speaking is a good idea. I am sure you will not want to come in the heat of the summer and will prefer the autumn which, I think, is much nicer. -2- With these preliminaries, I will now turn to really important matters. I am glad to learn that Maria has given birth to two of her kind. The event, however, is much surpassed by the birth of Buttercup at Juniper Ledge. She had a Guernsey father and looks so nearly like the pure article that we are delighted. We are going to make a cow of her and she is, at present, the belle of the farm. She is now four days' old and last night galloped and kicked up her heels in a way that was astonishing. How any living thing four days' old can have all that vitality locked up in it, I do not know. Mollie has somewhere in the region of one hundred chickens, many of them rapidly approaching the broiling stage. All other living things are doing well. We planted our first peas on April 1st. Of course we have had a cold May with one dry spell, but they began to blossom on June 1st and I am now counting the days until we shall have peas. We have a radish race in progress - one kind being advertised as a twenty day variety and the other as a twenty-one day variety. We shall see what they will do. I am pretty sure they will both come out about the same time - about six weeks. The garden is still quite backwards, but we have thirty varieties planted and things are coming along. I did not know that you had been to Vassar. Why did you not drop down at the farm? It is only a little walk. The place was beautiful here in early May with the dogwood, apples blossoms, etc. Those are all gone and we are now between the early blooms of the roses. We have iris, but not a very great deal else in the garden; however, the little greenhouse helps us out and we have carnations galore. I want to make more of a study than I have yet been able to put through in the matter of perennials. It is such a comfort to have them and such an annoyance to grow flower seeds that I want to get all I can that are really worth while. I want to get those that can be used for cutting as well as to make the garden look like a bouquet. If you come across any, I wish you would pass them on. I am going to report later about the seeds you brought me last year and what has happened to them. You remember the dahlia seeds I had from Rosa. We put away three barrels of bulbs and this year all that we had marked as good, were rotten. I shall ask her to send me more seed. I am not interested in Amundsen because ever since I can remember, the world has been hunting for him and I never cared much for the game of hide and seek. I think very well of Abd-el-Krim. He has licked Spain and I do not at all care if he licks France. I have a new atlas and I know where he lives which is more than you do. Dr. Jacobs has returned home as has nearly everybody else. -3- There was a luncheon at Mrs. Vanderlip's home for the foreign delegates to the Council meeting who had not yet returned home. It was a very pleasant affair and I shall tell you about it when I see you, not before. I had a great grief this year. Do you remember that you presented me with two wonderful apple trees which we planted in April 1920? One of them is a Talman Sweet and I do not know what the other one is. Both are alive and are doing well. No accident has ever happened to either of them with a single exception. We had a visit at one time from a young women with a tendency to graft everything in the garden. She grafted both of those trees and tried to make them into something else, but the grafts did not grow and they are still what they were intended to be, but I suppose that is what prevented them from blossoming. They are seven years old and that is the time they should blossom. One did have a few, but the Tallman Sweet did nothing. What do you think of that? I have two little quince trees and they were one mass of pink blossoms and that Tallman Sweet, which is due to be put away in jars with the quinces, has gone on strike. We have more varieties of worms and caterpillars than can be written down in and letter and are, at present, competing in an effort to destroy everything we possess. Awaiting your visit and your next letter, I am, Lovingly yours, Carrie C Catt I am a beauty in that cap and gown THE WASHINGTON EUROPEAN FIREPROOF PENNA AVE. OPPOSITE THE TREASURY WASHINTON, D.C. S.E. BONNEVILLE MANAGER Tuesday July 28, 1925, My dear Mary; You wonder if you will ever hear from me again? Yes, right now! I came down to speak at Helen Gardener's funeral. Maud Park and I and two Civil Service Commissioners did the services. Then Maud and I had dinner together and she is now on her way back to Maine. I am feeling lonely. Maud and I both loved Helen very much and we were both proud that neither of us broke down in tears. She is to be buried at Arlington by the side of her soldier husband but she is to be cremated first so we did not see the end. I am leaving early in the morning. Washington is still a hot humid sticky place and I shall be glad to get back to cool Juniper Lodge. I am still mad at you for going off so quick. It may be you did tell the assembled family that you were going away but if so it was when I was asleep. I take a cat nap after dinner as old ladies are apt to do. I had a lot to say and a lot to hear and now I shall (2 forget what it was. Two are so important that I must relate them 1. Some folks at Charles City have been writing my biography getting the items from my brother and the neighbors. I had it in the house. Now aren't you sorry? 2 Some of these grafts of yours "took". I have a tree with apples now ripe. By my schedule it is an Oldenburg. In reality it is unlike anything I ever saw or heard of and I think you must have changed it! I am not going to answer any questions about myself or my family unless you ask them in person! When are you coming for your scheduled visit? That last was a slip in or maybe a step in. Flora Hay is there now and I had planned to go to Williamstown for three days - while she could take care of Mollie but instead to come here--never mind things are quite exciting at Juniper Ledge - we are making a bridge and when it is done we shall dig a river to run under it! We are making a well too. Doesn't that sound exciting? Maybe you are right about biography Perhaps you can educate me up to it as a diversion. I am glad you liked my evolution reminisce. I was shocked at Bryan's taking off. My sense of fair play is offended at the knockout of the chief antagonist. If it had been Darrow (3) THE WASHINGTON EUROPEAN FIREPROOF PENNA AVE. OPPOSITE THE TREASURY Washington, D.C. S BONNEVILLE MANAGER how quick the fundamentalists would have been to say it was providence! I don't like so many people dropping off with heart failure Is there a heart bug or is it too much emotionalism? I've been to see my doctor since you were down and he says I'm better (much) but he will not sanction any more winters [work] that compares with the last and no long lecture trip. I am very low in my mind these days. I am growing lazier and lazier and yet resent my own desire to quit, lie down and grow old. It is well for you to study these symptoms for they do not belong to me, but to anyone trying to repudiate old age yet rather enjoying the status of freedom of responsibility. Bryan was younger than I thought him. What broke him was the [s?ing] charge of ignorance and biogrty and the sum up of the newspapers that he was not his old self in his great speech. That plus the heat was enough to take the spirit out of any one and who Ruom what that does to the "engine" of the body. Well I find this world a poorer one than it was when Helen G. was in it and I am lonely tonight. Washington will never seem the same again You didn't know her much. She was one of the world's wonders! She was 72 and looked not a day over 50. How she managed it we could never understand. Bryan was 65 and looked 75. Both hearts failed! I am glad you are going to give me some foxglove seed. Yes, I read one question asked long ago that I will answer. It inquired whether I'd be ready for maple syrup next spring. Yes. I bo't some from northern N.Y and I do not like it so well as that Geneva R.I.D. Don't you feel sort of good for nothing now that there is no father to look after? I think you should take on a life work. Be a missionary for fund[?? ?el???] or something along that line. Now I'll take myself to bed for I make an early start. Lovingly, Carrie C Catt I spurn your suggestion of a sanitarium -at present. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK FD Ossinning C Mary Gray Peck Aug 4, 1925 Dear Mary: Guess you never got a letter from me written on the same day one from you was received before. Why this hurry? Because I've done a days work and given myself a shampoo and while I'm drying you are getting a quick reply. Yesterday I had a bit of legal business which compelled a visit to the City and it was a hot time. For the first time since we have been here Mollie staid at home without any one except the two maids. Her sister went home with their brother who had dined here Sunday. Today Mollie has gone in to stay over night and take her sister to the theater. I like staying alone. I've been to inspect the new river and the bridge. I named the river Rio Picano, then Jake and I laid out a well house and he is digging a hole for it. Then I cut up enough Portuguese beans to make 6 quarts. (I hope) which will be put through their bricks tomorrow morning. I had bread and milk for my lunch and when the shampoo is dry, I'll do some real work. You will have to come and see the bridge to know its value. Those apples--yes they are ripe and gathered. They got ripe when undersized but there were no perfect ones. They were as gnarly as these on the old trees. I shall now dose it with Arsenic and see if we can clean it up. So nearly as I make out the tree is Red Astrachan and there was a mistake in my schedule. The Oldenburg was a concession apple in the West when I was a child. It is large, terribly sour and the best imaginable for sause and pies. It was an early August apple --not good for eating. If they are not used here maybe the man I bought them of simply marked this one so. I wish to buy some apple, peach, plum and pear trees this fall. I can get them from catalogues. I wondered if there was any advantage in getting them of a smaller concern. I think you said your nursery only made a million a year! Doesn't have a catalogue. I suppose I want about 36 apples, 24 pears, 18 plums and 24 peaches. Perhaps I would want 12 cherries. I will plant some of them here, some on my new place and give some to John's place. At any rate you might advise me as to varieties. I want some early eating apples, some early cooking apples, some early fall apples and some winter ones. I would like all the other things to string along so that I would not have them all at once. I should have a road, an orchard and a full fledged water supply ready for a house next spring. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK I not that Helen Gardener has left her brain to Cornell. I recall that she once told me she had. I've been trying to remember what story arose about Mrs. Stanton. She too had willed her brain to Cornell and her family would not allow it carried out. Wasn't that it? In fact when those "girls" made that plan, the question concerning women's brains was a decidedly controversial one. It isn't now. I think. Am I right? Then also the separation of parts of the body was opposed on account of the fear lest the person separated would miss out on resurrection day, but Talmage settled that. Our arms heads brains livers, kidneys and other removals flying to latch on to the old body and every one will thus be a complete self as of old I heard him preach that sermon. I hope he is right and that I shall not miss the sight! If you are going to write my biography, you better write a chapter or two and submit it to me. You will never come within 40 miles of the truth. You have too much imagination! I seem to be dried now and I must turn my attention to more serious themes. I am preaching next Sunday. I gave them a subject and have forgotten what it was! Lovingly, C.C.C. P.S. Bedtime. I have now finished that real job--read the last chapters of a book about the Jews. If all the Patriots say a future is here, I must say it wouldn't be more than getting even. I shall expect you in Sept or October. C.C.C. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK Mary Gray Peck Aug 13, 1925 Dear Mary, I hear that you are coming down for the luncheon on the 26th that you are scheduled to pay us a visit in Sept or early October and maybe you would like to do it then. If so, you may. I have invited Elizabeth Hausen who I understand is coming for the luncheon to come home with us. Now it happened that the Non Partisan League & Nabons Assn is dining Dr Rappard of Switzerland (who is now at [M???]) that night. It is at a man's club and nothing can be a big affair in August for most of the population is in Europe. I have ordered tickets for Mollie and me and have another to invite Elizabeth to be my guest. I now invite you to be my guest and to come home with us, but in any event to go to the dinner. I cannot recommend the performance very highly. I know that the food will be none too good and that the smoke will be as thick as a nail. The man may be no more eloquent than the average but that's that. I cannot even recommend the company for I am sure to take a nap and I dare say all the rest want to do so - yet with these warnings 2 I invite you to join us and to come home with us if that is your pleasure. Clara is spending labor day week end with us and I am expecting H. T. Uplean around Sept 15 when the Leslie meets. There is to be a Conference on China Sept 17, 18, 19, 20 or thereabouts at Johns Hopkins and if I can get anyone to protect my family and my pickles during a brief absence, I want to go, so I am asking H to come before the 15th. Flora (Hay) is leaving tonight. Mary (G Hay) that's a nice sweet little story about gardening, altho only those who love a garden will understand it. I believe that nearly all farmers believe and feel and sense what you do but they couldn't put it into words. Whatever is a grub hoe? I want information on how to keep apple trees clean and healthy when in the vicinity of unhealthy old ones. Let me hear your intuitions concerning the 26th. You surely are not coming down just for that. Very lovingly C. C. Catt Aug 13, 1925 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 Madison Avenue New York Aug 31, 1925 Dear Mary. Elizabeth Hauser says her chief disappointment in not coming to see us was that she was not privileged to bask a while in the munificence of your presence who it strangely seems she regards as one of the world's greatest souls. I have written Elizabeth to ask if she cannot come up from Washington after the League Board meeting which opens on the 15th. I have offered the inducement that we would try to deliver you into her aura. I want to go to the China Conference (I am one of the Executive!) in Baltimore Sept 17, 18, 19, 20. I know it opens with a public meeting on the evening of the 17th but I do not know how much of a climax there may be on the 20th. I may get home on that day and perhaps Elizabeth (Hauser) may join me on the train, and it may be the next day. At any rate I'll let you know if any definite plan eventuates and if not of course there is no hurry. That cold snap made me fear we might not have anything to eat - the garden being frozen up probably - but we can always return to the menus of ordinary mortals, bread potatoes and meat. I haven't received that catalogue yet but I'm living in hopes. I have just read Gandhi and I think that book the most amazingly thrilling of any I have read these many days. I am in the midst of the Mesda[?] Caesar Thank you for Gandhi most cordially, and I'll see about the other when I have finished them. O, I must add that I am more or less engaged on Sept. 27, 28, 29 with Mrs. Elva Munch, M[?] Par of Denmark There is most of October. I never receive guests the last ten days if I can avoid it, for we wash and cover and pack away these days-- Loveingly Carrie C Catt Mon Eve. Aug 31, 1925 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK Sept. 1925 Dear Mary: Elizabeth is coming. We wil try to take the same train up; she from Washington, I from Baltimore on Sunday the 20th and we will get here for dinner which we will have in the evening. It is usually a midday affair on Sunday. Later I wil write you and tell you what train we wil take from N Y to Ossining on the supposition that you might join us there. You can come on here on an earlier train if you prefer - or the day before. At any rate get away from that retreat awhile. Even I would find living alone pretty irksome I have worried some lest the tomatoes be gone before you got here. At present we have about a ton. I presume you have as many. They are one "old Faithful." Hastily CCC Sept, 1925 CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK October 31, 1925. Miss Mary Gray Peck 32 MacCartney Street Easton, Pennsylvania. Dear Mary: I had learned from Clara that you had been called to Easton. I am awfully sorry about this new attack your brother has had, and hope it will not prove disastrous. We left the farm about the 26th of October. It was much colder than it had ever been so early in the year. The prediction of an early fall was certainly a true one. Meanwhile, correspondence had been piling up by the ton in the office. Usually Miss Wald came out to the house and we looked at matters as they occurred, but this fall she was having pneumonia, and we were unable to keep up with the procession. I am now working like mad to try to get caught up with myself and to get off on my lecture trip - with the lectures all unprepared. I will send you enclosed a little list of my appointments, and when in the dead of the night you are watching and haven't anythign else to do, you can write me letters, with the understanding that there will be no answers. Meatime, I shall hope and pray that all will be at peace with you, your brother and his wife. Very lovingly yours, Enclosure Statler Hotel, Detroit Nov 10, 11, 12 The Drake Hotel Chicago Nov 8,9 The Lavorena Hotel Erie Penn Nov. 17. Home on 18th. I do not add the dates between these as I do not stay long. Meanwhile - peace be with you all. Tell your brother that lots of folks are having "engine trouble" and that it only means a call for rest. He must have a Sabbatical year. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM RECEIVED AT 12 SY C 14 WX NEW YORK N Y 1245PM 5 MARY GREY PECK RURAL DELIVERY CLIFTON SPRINGS N Y JUST LEAVING YOU AND ALL THE FAMILY HAVE MY SINCEREST AND MOST UNDERSTANDING SYMPATHY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT Sent after hearing of Fred Peck's death HOTEL STATLER DETROIT 1000 ROOMS 1000 BATHS UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA NEW YORK 2200 ROOMS, 2200 BATHS HOTEL STATLER BUFFALO 1100 ROOMS, 1100 BATHS CLEVELAND 1000 ROOMS, 1000 BATHS ST. LOUIS 650 ROOMS, 650 BATHS BOSTON 1300 ROOMS, 1300 BATHS Under Construction Grand Circus Park at Washington Blvd. and Bagley Ave. My dear Mary: I received your letter here and want so much to answer it but I am plunged in a whirl pool and cannot find a minute. I am just off for Kalamazoo - State Convention L of W.V. I might have some time were it not for the telephones calls etc. I'm thinking much of you. Lovingly, Carrie Chapman Catt Nov 13, 1925 accepting invitation to supper after speaking w. McDonald at NYLWV convention Rochester Fri. Eve. Dec.4. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK Dec. 3, 1925 Dear Mary: You can make your own arrangements with Mollie but I accept the invitation to a bat after the meeting Friday eve. However it will be no buttermilk bat! It will take all you and Alice Lewis can scrape together to pay for what I'm going to have. I shall wind up with mince pie a la mode with a hunk of cheese and a few dill pickles! I'm saving my appetite now. Yours for the bat(?)! CCC CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK December 24, 1925. Miss Mary Grey Peck, R.F.D., Clifton Springs, N.Y. My dear Mary: I thank you for the fine box of apples. A chance guest at the hotel had a room within sight of my bed. I had to remain in bed two or three mornings and I used to count the apples on her window sill. I saw a hand come and take an apple away. Later I would see two or three more apples in place of the one taken, so I knew she was "an apple a day" woman and that she bought them in small quantities. I was very sorry that she seemed to have gone away because I know my apples, which extend twice across the window, would have filled her with envy. I thank you most cordially for them. I want to thank you also for the sketch of your brother's life. It was a great pity that he had to go before his time. I know this is going to be a lonely Christmas for you, but I hope somebody will find something to do for you, so that you will not remember it too acutely. Perhaps you will remember that on January 9th I have a birthday - devilish old I will be. I am celebrating it by giving a party; that is, I have taken a table at the Foreign Policy luncheon for that day and I invite you to be one of my guests. In fact, I have not invited anyone else as yet. On the 11th of January is the anniversary of the setting up of the League of Nations, and the Non-Partisan Association is celebrating with a dinner. I am presiding, Mr. Shotwell is speaking, and the rest of the program will be a film showing the League of Nations which the Non-Partisan Association is just producing. This will be its first appearance. I invite you to that also. In between we might find a movie to go to. Let me know whether or not you can come. I am wondering if your sister-in-law would like to come over from Easton for that Foreign Policy Luncheon and if you want her to do it in order to play with you. I will invite her to be my guest for the luncheon if you think she would like to come. You said you would probably come down some time during January and I think this will be a fitting time. I am not making sufficient progress with the movies and shall not be equipped to speak at the Convention in Chicago, so I will be obliged to decline the invitation. Lovingly yours, Over I have now issued the invitations for my table and have got it filled. {*} your sister if all accept. Just the old suffrage girls. You love some of them much. Hay Sulee's two, Jean Minnie, Clara Rube Henrietta Peck and Catt. I shall let you sit by me and next to Clara. Meanwhile this letter intended to reach you before Xmas has come for my signature the day after. I am glad to receive the Quick book. I never saw him but we corresponded a bit. When I've read it , I'll report. You would think that I could read at least eight hours per day. On the contrary, I am on the go all the hours except nine for sleep. I am speaking twice in Minneapolis in February! for the Women's Foreign Missionary Boards Convention in Atlantic City on Jan 10th between the Foreign Policy luncheon and the dinner etc. Let me know if you can come down. If so we'll you have a private chat before the 9th. (It could be the 8th) or after. Better be on the 12th. Lovingly C C C Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.