Addams thanks Breckinridge for sending her a report on education, encloses a letter about the issues of rural education, and notes that she has lost faith in her writing project.
Addams thanks Breckinridge for sending The Three Plays by Brieux and mentions that she may send a copy of the manuscript of her new book, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, for suggestions.
McClure writes Addams about adapting her manuscript for A Newer Conscience and an Ancient Evil from seven to five chapters for serialized publication in McClure's Magazine, and he offers her $1,000 for the five articles.
Brett writes Addams that he is happy Macmillan will publish A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil soon promises her that the company will use a union shop for binding.
Arguing that white slavery requires an organized movement to defeat it, Addams provides examples from cases in Chicago. This is the first in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.
Addams thanks Fields for a letter praising her latest article in McClure's about prostitution, and she notes that it meant even more to her than a letter for Theodore Roosevelt.