ROUND BY STIMEMAN & CO.
FOR CHARITIES & SIGNATURES SONS

THROUGH THE COURTESY OF

MRS. SIMEON FORD

THE MEMBERS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB ARE INVITED TO HEAR

MR. NORMAN ANGELL

ON
THE
AMERICAN
PROBLEM
OF
THE
WAR
ON
SUNDAY, DECEMBER FIFTH

AT THREE-THIRTY O'CLOCK

IN THE ASSEMBLY ROOM OF THE CLUB

R. S. V. A. TO

MRS. FORD, 43 WEST 14TH ST.

4 KINGS BENCH WALK
TEMPLE
LONDON, E.C. 4.

25th April 1917.

My dear Mrs. Ford,

I wonder if you are still in America or
whether you went to Japan. For your own comfort
I rather hope that you did as America cannot have
been a very pleasant place for folk of your opinion
the last few months.

I am rather sorry that I did not take your
suggestion to "elope" with you when you were here last
fall. The Government, after wearisome negotiations,
refused my passport as I half feared they would, so
that I had to cancel all my American engagements and
surrender my usual spring trip. It is simply impos-
sible to say what the future has in store.

If you are in New York and happen to be
coming this side by chance I wish you would advise
me.

I do not take the view that the peace work
is knocked on the head by the war: on the contrary
I believe that its most useful work will now begin.
What kind of a settlement are we to have? how is
Mr. Wilson's policy to be realised? how do we propose
to make the nations equal, ensure commercial equality,
and so forth? This settlement will not realise itself
by the mere fact of victory. If the militarists tell
you that it is not realisable at all then their fight-
ing is sheer murder. Their only excuse for fighting
is that they are fighting for some worthy ideal, some
better condition. If they declare that better con-
dition is impossible they condemn themselves.

I think along these lines you can, by a
slight re-direction of pacifist effort, do the one
thing needful. Militarists of course will neglect

this side of the preparation for peace and if it were
left to them America would come to the peace so utterly
unprepared that all her sacrifices would go for nothing.
It is the work of pacifists to see that the sacrifices
she does make in this war are rendered effective.

I venture to write at some length because I think
it is along these lines that pacifist movement in
America, far from being put out of business by the war,
will find in the war its real opportunity if it knows
how to use it.

Believe me,

Yours very sincerely,

Mrs. Simeon Ford,
Rye,
NEW YORK,
U.S.A.

HOTEL MANHATTAN

MADISON AVENUE,
42ND AND 43RD STREETS.

NEW YORK,

Dec 25

My dear Mrs. Ford,

Only yesterday did my travels come to an end - temporarily - and allow me to sit down and write a word of the season's greetings to anyone.

I do so to you first. I want particularly to take the opportunity of letting you know how very much I have appreciated your very real kindness and hospitality to me, and I sincerely hope that your contributions to the happiness of others may be balanced by for you and yours by a really "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year".

Please give my sincerest regards to all your family, and believe me,

Yours very sincerely,

Tel: Morningside
5-800

420 West 116th St.,

NEW YORK, Nov 27

My dear Mrs. Ford,

I have seen Putnames, and I am now busy getting ready the "copy" for the book. I hope to have it completed in a day or two. My only doubt about the Putnames is the speed of production. If they cannot give me a satisfactory date I will try and get it done elsewhere.

Before accepting this very generous offer of yours, however, I want to be quite sure that you realise that it may run you into some three hundred dollars. The address, when properly set out, makes a small book (like the one I did last year entitled "Dangers of Half Preparedness") and done in stiff paper cover would cost some twenty five cents apiece; this with postage for distribution would mean thirty cents at least which XXXX on a thousand would be three hundred dollars.

I do not know whether you realised that such a sum would be involved, and you must not let me railroad you into unexpected expenditure. Of course I believe that money could not be better spent just now than in putting these ideas into even a few heads - if one of your thousand hapened to be the right one - W.W. or someone who has the ear of W.W. - you will agree it would be worth it. But then my judgement in such a matter is warped! And I don't want you to feel obliged to go on with this if you feel it too heavy a XXXXXX charge.

Your suggestion XXX set my mind to work on the matter and I'm persuaded it is the right thing to do. Putnames have suggested - and they are right - that instead of making a small cheap book of it, which the