Collier's
THE NATIONAL WEEKLY
416 WEST 13TH STREET
NEW YORK
February 10, 1911.
Miss Jane Addams,
Hull House,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Miss Addams:-
I was very much interested in your talk in New York recently, especially as to what you said relative to every city having a "Department of Recreation."
It suggests a related subject upon which I have been wanting to write you, namely, the duty of officials of city and town towards the children and means through which they can express it. In other words, I have wished to ask if you would not write a popular and thoroughy practical article for us on this subject.
You know COLLIER'S has a wide circulation and reaches the country from end to end, especially the smaller cities, and it is for that reason that I have wanted an article that would be so practical, so helpful that its feasibility would be patent to the mayor and council of the smaller town, as well as to the citizens. In other words, I have wanted to make it practical rather than theoretical.
Will you express yourself on this subject for us in a popularly written article, say, about two thousand words. We can pay you one hundred dollars for such a paper.
Sincerely yours,
Caspar Whitney [signed]
signed by Secretary in
Mr. Whitney's absence.
Mr. Whitney's absence.
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