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^[[Gretchen]]

[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE, MONROE 825
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1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]
^[[4 pp]]

July 13, 1912.

Dearest Girls:- 

We have been having such a very busy week with the convention of the National Education Association meeting in Chicago that I thought you might like to get a joint letter.

Dearest Dad, I want to thank you ever so much for your letter and your post card and for the rug for Raymond's birthday for Chinsegut. And where, Kate, are the many promised letters from you? Not even the one about the German woman's movement has yet reached me.

We are all so greatly distressed at the miserable showing Miss Grace Strachan made while in Chicago, both in character and mind. What sort of person is she anyway? She seems here to represent the worst type of a "Tammany" politician and when she was defeated for the presidency, ten to one, instead of meeting that defeat, publicly at least, with dignity, she completely lost her temper and acted and spoke like a tigress let loose. She was very determined to eb elected president and started her campaign early. When Margaret Haley looked over the situation and saw the need of winning certain important amendments to the constitution so as to make freedom of action to the members of the N. E. A. possible she found that it would not do to introduce the woman question as another issue, and she 

[[stamp]] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART [[/stamp]]
^[[Mrs. Peter Voorhees 1959]]