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^[[Mary E. Dreier
3 pp.]]

[[preprinted]] 118 EAST 54TH STREET
NEW YORK [[/preprinted]]

December 6th, 1912.

Dearest Dodo:

Thank you very many times for your very dear letter which I received the other day.  I was awfully glad to get it, and I am glad that you are getting on so well.  I hope that you are having a good time.

I have been awfully busy, especially this last week.  We have been having public hearings on the Factory Investigating Commission bills.  We have met at ten thirty, and have not gotten through until five or six thirty with only an hour for luncheon.  It is rather strenuous and exhausting work.  In addition to this, as it happens, of course, I have had special meetings to take up the rest of my time, and those late into the evening.

We had a most interesting hearing yesterday, as to whether or not we shall abolish tenement house work.  We had wonderful witnesses telling of the conditions under which work is carried on in the tenements, and — I certainly think that there was no exception to the facts, — that the money the people get through this work is by no means sufficient to keep them alive, and that it had to be supplemented either by charity or in some other way.  It was shown how the poor little children were stupid and 

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*Drier again