A Letter written on Mar 7, 1931

Juliane Mariesvej, 32,
København, Danmark.
March 7, 1931

President Mary E. Woolley,
Mount Holyoke College,
South Hadley, Mass.

Dear President Woolley,

Your letter of February 19 came a few days ago and I told Mrs. Aslaug-Møller about it as soon as possible. She is, as you know, Chairman (= President) of the organization of Danish University Women. She and the Chairman of the Committee on the Hostel for women students asked me to meet with them today to talk the matter over. After that meeting I sent you tomight [sic] the following cable,
"Mrs. Møller gladly accepts Caukin's plans."

However the situation with respect to the fund for the hostel has changed somewhat since the letter of appeal was first sent to America, though help is still needed. The Committee has been so successful in getting money for the building that the fund for its erection is practically complete. Work is now going on to secure - and I am sure you will approve this - a fund for the maintenance and endowment of the building from the income of which the charges for roome [sic] rent may be as low as that in the corresponding local colleges for men some of which are well-endowed. The Committee hopes to have a certain portion of this endowment fund, about $3,000, and "International" fund, the income of which would be used to furnish a room, rent free, to a foreign student each year. If such an international fund could be sucured [sic] in America, it is suggested that the foreign student to receive preference might be an American - there are usually American women studying in Copenhagen - the nomination perhaps to be made through the Fellowship Committee of the A. A. U. W. Naturally the working out of these details is dependent upon the securing of the $3,000 in America.

From my own experience I can say that the remission of room rent this year, through the courtesy of the University Zoofysiologiske Laboratorium, has been of material help to me. But such assistance is possible in very few cases because the rooms are not available. The addition of resources at the Women's hostel would thus be very desirable.

You will see Mrs. Aslaug-Møller at the Council meeting I am sure. I wish that she might visit Mount Holyoke as well as Wellesley, but her [time] in the United States is so short that I fear she will not have time. She has been most cordial to me this year, as have others, also, of the Danish university group.

I thank you for your recent letter asking me to go as the Mount Holyoke representative to the Congress on the History of Science in London, June 29 - July 3. I am trying to adjust my plans to do this - it would be a real opportunity I am sure. Today a note came from President Singer's office saying that they had received your letter.

I have seen two spring birds - the year is nearly over - and I am both glad and sorry. It has been such a nice year that I do not like to have it end, yet I can think of getting to South Hadley with much cheer.

Very sincerely yours,
[Unsigned, but written by Abby H. Turner]