Dear Comrades,

What a delight it is to read your letters! I have spent hours of happiness with them. My heart goes out to Charlotte and Emilie and Florence, who have had such deep experiences, and to Helen Hendrix Mohr and Mollie Cullom Walker in their happiness and richness of life- to all of you as I read on and on.

As for me, I am still teaching English in the Washington Irving High School in New York, and still enjoying it. I should love to do church and community work, but am unable in addition to the school work, except that I am on the Instruction Committee of the Sunday School, being much interested in religious education.

I sympathized with Nell Talley's enthusiasm about her home. My mother and I have been for three years in a beautiful apartment about which we are enthusiastic though we do not own it. When we came here we had been boarding (except for one brief unsuccessful experiment for eight years), and 'boarding' as you know 'is not living' - certainly not complete living. So we have reveled in having six rooms all our own, with our own furniture about us, and in being able to entertain our friends. It would make us very happy to have any of you come to see us, and I hope you will, every one of you, as soon as you find it possible. No previous notification is necessary, but telephoning will find out whether or not we are in.

We spent last weekend in Atlantic City visiting Mary Beavers, my Freshman Year roommate, whom you will remember as class secretary (recording) that year. She gave us a thoroughly delightful time, and as I do not see her often it was a great treat for me.

As for 'current topics', I note with pleasure, though I never did much to get myself the privilege- and I am as deeply concerned in the domestic help problem as any of you, but can offer no suggestions. A larger and more intricate problem, which I believe as a body of influential women we should set our minds to work upon, is that of peace. The difficulty is so great I am tempted to be discouraged, but I believe the work is ours; and that by strong feeling and earnest prayer and careful thought and persistent effort we can do much toward making peace permanent.

How delightful it will be for Goucher to have a beautiful campus! Our last New York Alumnae meeting, at which Dr. Guth told us his hopes and plans, was unusually interesting. I hope Goucher Hall will be retained for College use- or set up again in the new place if that is possible. To me it seems the 'outward and visible sign' of all that Dr. Goucher gave the college of spiritual wealth. His ideal of womanhood has been my standard through all the years.

It is late, and I must say goodbye. Tomorrow I must send this on to Daisy. Love to you all!

Loyally yours,

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