Turist Hotel,
Copenhagen,
Denmark.Jan. 22, 1927
Dear Miss Turner,
This is a cry for help from a distant land. Andhhere's [sic] the story. Through Mrs. Krogh I have been asked to give a lecture to the Danish Association of University Women on college and university life among American women. The lecture is apparently to be a public one, advertised in the newspapers, etc., and will be attended, we fancy, by students, graduates, and various interested women.
Because of the fact that Americans and American life and education are so inadequately understood in this part of the world -- Europe, I mean, not Denmark - and because we are anxious to do our little part in furthering understanding and cordial foreign relations, I would like to make my talk as vivid and illuminating as possible.
But of course I have no material here, either photographic or statistical.............
What I propose to do is to carry a young American girl through college and then through some professional school, indicating in general terms the amount of work covered in the various stages and the opportunities when she is through, and picturing the sort of life she lives as she goes along. To illustrate this, I want pictures of various college buildings, dormitories, libraries, science halls, campuses, etc., pictures of basket-ball, hockey, tennis, or lacrosse games in progress, and close-up pictures of teams so that Danish women can see what the American woman student looks li [sic] like. I ought to have also a picture or two of graduation exercises, daisy chain making, hoop rooling [sic], -- anything typically American. I will have lantern slides made over here, but if you can help me in getting the pictures and some statistical data, I shall be eternally grateful.
The lecture is to be in March, probably about the 10th, which will give us very scant time since two weeks is the least we can count on for a letter one way. I am, in consequence, afraid to write to the various colleges direct from here because I have no chance for a follow-up if a prompt reply does not come to the first letter..............
Of course the pictures need not be mounted and even postcard size is not too small, though somewhat large, would be better. All photographs ought to be labeled as I am personally familiar with only one or two places .....
It is quite possible that the American Association of University Women publishes a booklet with data of these sort. If so, I would like immensely to have it, but I do not know how to get quickly in touch with them. My husband suggests also that if, by chance, you know of a book on life among American college women, it would be well to have it, even if some of it may seems somewhat trivial.........
Very cordially yours
Katherine R. DrinkerAll mail should be addressed
Mrs. Katherine R. Drinker,
Turist Hotel,
Copenhagen, Denmark.