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September 12th, 1924.
Dear Miss Addams:
I am sending you a carbon copy of this letter with spaces for your answer to save work for you. Please return the carbon filled in.
I am enclosing the report of the National Secretary for the last year and for the summer months. Also our statement of the receipts and disbursements of the $50,000.00 fund; our annual financial report and National expenditure through the summer.
We have not as yet received list of the contributors to the $50,000.00 fund from the Branches. That probably can go into some later Bulletin if it be thought wise. Meantime I would like your authorization or suggestions in regard to publishing this financial report of the $50,000.00 fund in the next Bulletin.
Would you like some statement in regard to the report put in the Bulletin? Mrs. Post does not think that she should take the authority upon herself to make any statement whatever in regard to the report or to mention that a special fund has been raised for its printing. I shall be very glad to put in whatever you say, emphasizing perhaps that copies are for sale at the office.
Ans:
There is no absolute decision from either you, Miss Balch or Mrs. Post as to what fund will cover the postage for the mailing of the report to [page 2] the Associate Members to donors in America of $10.00 and over.
[written in left margin] Decision by Balch-Post.
Ans:
Do you authorize me to purchase
1. A new filing cabinet?
2. A cabinet for addressograph plates?
3. An entire set of plates for the Associate Members in the United States? Ans:
and to send the bill to Mrs. Post for payment from the Report Fund?
Ans:
I put the above in [categorical] form so that we may be quite sure that Mrs. Post is taking the matter under advisement with the National Committee [today]. As this is an International matter we shall want of course to wait for final authority from you.
As soon as I receive the page proof of the French Cahier I will send it to Mrs. Post. Perhaps you have already sent it to her and she has not yet received it?
Mr. Johnson writes that he will want 3,000 copies of his pamphlet, and asks if there will be a reduction if he ordered 5,000 at the present time.
I am writing Dr. Swiggett [today] in regard to your decision about his paper. Do you suggest that I get out Frau [Kirchhoff's] lecture at once?
Ans:
Mrs. Post in telephoning me [today] spoke of her eagerness before considering the Report Fund to help in the printing of the French and German editions.
We are now going over Miss Glücklich's Associate Member list. She gives one series of 63 who are recorded in the United States as Associate members and not recorded in Geneva. I find that they are included in our list of the donors to The Hague Conference, and I believe they are the ones who gave at the time, but were not registered as Associate Members, and I received word from either you or Miss Glücklich that they were to be considered as Associate [page 3] Members if they had contributed $10.00 or more. You may have said "tentatively" considered. Shall we include them as members to receive the report?
Ans:
Your letter written on one from Mrs. Post to you has just come. I am puzzled about my Associate Membership, as I became a National and International Member in Boston before I sailed for Europe in 1922.
Last year while in Geneva I contributed and I thought paid my dues. I have not received any notice of dues since. Undoubtedly this will all be straightened out when we have the addressograph files in order.
It will be impossible to get the list of the Donors from the branches at the present moment, but I feel that some statement regarding the $50,000.00 fund ought to be made immediately. Do you not think that a foot-note regarding the fact that many contributed through the Branches, would help at the present time, and later we can get out the entire list of donors?
You will undoubtedly hear from Mrs. Post regarding the opinion of the Members of the Board before you have the opportunity to answer all the many questions I have asked.
Affectionately,
National Secretary.
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