NAWSA  Gen. Corresp.  International Alliance of
Women

January 21, 1937
Mrs. Katherine Bompas,
International Alliance of Women,
12, Buckingham Palace Road,
London, S.W.1, England.

My dear Mrs. Bompas:  
   I am just now leaving for the West.
   I have already written to the women
who are managing the campaign in the Philippines that
I would try to raise some money for them.  It is not at 
all easy to raise money for a campaign so far away.
The suffragists who were once so generous are now in all
kinds of enterprises which take all they have.  I am 
leaving on Saturday (day after tomorrow) and I expect
to send $1000 to the Philippine women then.  I wanted 
to raise $3000; I thought that would  help them, but I 
find I am not going to be able to do it.  And in order
to send them $1,000, I am having to draw on my personal
funds for more than I had expected.   I think that we shall
not be able to send much more.
   We have taken the position that they 
know quite well how to run their own campaign, and we
have not offered any women to them, but have asked them
if they would like to have a woman provided we could fin
one to go.  It was our expectation to find a woman who 
could go and pay her own expenses.  We have no such woman
available, and I have had no reply from the Philippines.
We sent our letter to them by airmail and if they had
done the same I would have a reply now.  But very likely
they sent it by ordinary mail.  I shall let you know if
there is anything of importance in the letter when it arrives.   
             I do not think it would be possible to
raise any money here toward sending Lady Pares, but you
might write the Philippine committee yourself.  If you
have not  done so  and wish to reach the women in the
Philippines  quickly, write
Mrs. Sofia De Veyra
1132 California, cor. San Marcelino
Manila, Philippine Islands

Mrs. de Veyre is a lady of culture and education. I would advise you to send your letter by airmail.
While it might be that someone else could do a better job of raising money than I have, I am going to add that I doubt it, for I have been assisted by the woman, that is, Mrs. Raymond Brown, who knows more than anyone else about raising money from suffragists.
So I do not think we could raise any money here to apply upon Lady Pares' expenses.
Before Mrs. Corbett Ashby wrote me I had already begun correspondence with the women of the Philippines and had already written them about raising money, and now it is rather late for us to propose that some woman should come from England. I am sure they would be very glad to receive her and if she feels inclined to go by all means let her do so. It is very hot there but extremely interesting. 
I am writing today to the Philippines and I will mention Lady Pares and say that if they hear from you or from her I hope they will receive her hospitably.
I am sorry that Mrs. Ashby is over-worked. I rather think that she always wil be, so I cannot sympathize with her too completely.
Give my love to Mrs. Ashby.
Faithfully yours,
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