May 15, 1920.
My dear Miss Addams:
As perhaps you know, our volume of Russian documents covering Russian-American relations from March 1917, down to March 1920, will be issued from the press we hope within the next two or three weeks. It includes practically all of the Robins-Francis correspondence, all of the important documents bearing on our relations with Russia published in English in this country or abroad and also several important things hitherto not published in English. In all, it will make a volume of about four hundred pages, including a non-controversial introduction by Miss Cumming, who together with Mr. Pettit, under the general direction of John A. Ryan, J. Henry Scattergood and Wm. Allen White, edited the volume.
It is the suggestion of Mr. Kellogg and Dr. Slosson that from the point of view of giving a wider publicity to these documents than would otherwise be possible, it is highly desirable to hold a conference in Chicago of fifteen or twenty magazine and newspaper feature and special article writers, to whom sheets of the volume could be handed and a brief explanation of the main contents made by someone acquainted with the general Russian situation and who has had an opportunity to look though the volume. We shall be glad to get you a set of sheets at the earliest possible moment.
Could you suggest the names of some of the men and women in Chicago who ought to be asked to such a luncheon-conference?
I know this is asking a great deal of you, but I am sure that because of your interest in the Russian situation and because our study is a purely objective and non-propaganda one, you will be glad to do what you can to see that what is primarily a scholarly work is brought to the attention of as large a number of our people as possible.
Very sincerely yours,
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