Emily Hobhouse to Jane Addams, November 23, 1919 (telegram draft)

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Jane Addams

Hull House. Chicago.

Urgent feed Leipzig children, probably twenty ↑ten↓ thousand costing two ↑one↓ thousand dollars daily. Can you undertake cost ↑six months↓? Would Hoover facilitate supplies. Condition grievous. Must make beginning ↑in↓ one town local support certain. Estimates follow in second letter. Impossible let these children perish. Reply Dr Schwyzer

Castanienbaum, Lucerne.

Emily Hobhouse.