Walter “¥. Kotschnig
58 Kensington Avenue
Northauwpton, Massachusetts
Hovember nineteenth
1937
Dear Miss Parker;
Mrse Kotschnig and myself are delighted
to have your note of October 30th and your postcard
from Genevae I am se glad to know that you like it.
fe are missing you very much over here and we are
looking forward to your return. We have had a good
deal of sickness in the family of late, but I hope
that we are how over the top.
As far as I can see, I shall be staying
here for some time to comee I am enjoying my work
tremendously end it is very likely that I shali be
reappointed act only at Mount Holyoke, where I have
been mede a full professor, but also here at Smith.
Incidentally, the book with which you have helped
me is at last published and it has been very well
received.
With all good wishes, I am
Yours very sincerely,
Miss Jane Day Parker
20 rue Guynemer
c/o Mme. Deprez
Paris VI, FRANCE
349 - t2n& Sr.
ADDISON-PARKER
DES MOINES, IOWA
December 31, 1938
Mr. Walter M. Kotschnig
58 Kensington Avenue
Northampton, “ass.
Dear “r,. Kotschnig,
I am sending you enclosed a letter which I
have received from Charlotte Lohrig, together
with the testimonials she sent me for Miss Lore
Salzberger. I thought you would be interested
in seeing them before they were passed on to Mr.
Neilson. Personally ~ think they are very good
and Lore Galzberger sounds like an altogether keen
person to bring to Smith.
I was a little disappointed that Lo sent a
special recommendation for only one person, but
Since Bob Spivack has the other dossiers he will
be able to help. Incidentally, Lo seems quite
anxious to have a reply about Miss Salzberger as
soon as possible, especially if we would like her
to be at Smith for the beginning of the second
semester. I shan't myself be back at Smith until
next Sunday. If you think Wr. Neilson should see
Miss Salzberger's records vefore the second week
in January perhaps you could give them to him.
Every one out here--Spauldings, Tones, Nollens,
and Lanes as well as Parkers--has asked about you
and about when you will be coming to Des Moines
again. They are most anxious to see you.
I hope you will have the best of all possible
new years. Wy family sends your family its kindest
regards.
A janvier--
Yours very sincerely,
aes
99 Howe Street
New Haven, Conn.
June 3, 1940
Dear Mr. Kotschnig,
This will probably strike you as a voice from
the dead. Actually I have been going to write you
for months, but my intentions when it comes to corre-
spondence are the kind hell is paved with.
Now that I finally do write you it is on business.
I shall save the chat for later, in the hope that you
will be around the weekend of Commencement. I am
coming back for reunion and would like very much to
see you.
The business is this. Until just a few days ago
I had every intention of coming back next year to get
my M.A... However, things have come up. In short, I
haven't the wampum. That necessitates looking for a
job = and getting one. (You see, I am planning to be
married the end of the summer, but can't unless I can
get work and support myself while my husband finishes
his two more years of law school. You see, too, what
a lot I have to talk to you about.) Just now there
is one prospect in the air, but I do need some sort
of a recommendation right away about my capabilities
as a secretary. Do you suppose you could send me one
with a couple of duplicates = for whom it may concern.
I'd be so obliged.
Bill told me about the latest trouble with I.S.5.,
which I find quite sickening. However, I hope you got
things a little in order at your meeting last week.
The conference of 1938 no longer is a part of reality.
Mail from Europe is of course practically non-existent.
However, Bill did have a long letter from Girard about
a week ago, and I heard from Els - ironically enough
on the very day Holland was invaded. I find it im-
possible to immerse myself in the Middle Ages. The
present keeps intruding somehow.
I'll look forward to hearing from you as soon as
possible and especially to seeing you. Meanwhile,
many thanks in advance. Will you give my regards to
Mrs. Kotschnig. And to yourself all of the best.
Affectionatly,
fame ey
‘Wiss Jane Day Parker has served as my secretary for almost —
two years, which gave me an excellent opportunity of judging
her abilities. She combines qualities and qualifications which
are rarely to be found in one person. She is extepdtdinatily |
able intellectually, has an exceptions] grasp of a wide-range
of problems in a social and international sphere and is sur-
prisingly mature for her age. Hor high academic standing is
beyond deubt. At the same time she is an expert typist, is
able to tae =nglish and French dictation faultlessly and un=
tiring in her devotion to her work. As early as in her sopho-
more year she helped me with indexing and produced work in.
which I have known many graduate students to fail. In addition
to her academic and her secretarial work, Jane Da, Parker
found tive to play a prominent part in student activities,
an which she proved herself an able organizer.
Miss Parker's appearance and manners are such as to
be an asset in any social set. She is likely to be at home
- equally well in a school room, an office, or 2 dravin:-room.
It is a pleasure to recommend iiss Parker most highly. for ;
any type of work which requires intelligence, initiative, de-
pendebility, and good presences . ees :
June 4, 1940
Miss Jane Day Parker
99 Howe Street
New Haven, Conne
Dear Jane Day,
I was delighted to hear from you, 2nd I am more pleased
than I can say that you are planning to get married at the
end of the summer. I only hope that you will gét the job
you are looking for and that the enclosed recommendations
will be of some use to yous
There are #0 many things to talk about that I can't start
discussing them in a letter. Please besure to call us up
soon afte: your arrival so that we can get together for a
meal or two. It will be perfectly «rand to see you again.
Avec toutes mes amities,
September 12, 1942
Mrs. H. Telfer Mook
4564 North Pershing Drive
Arlington, Virginia
Dear Jane Day,
I hope you won't mind my addressing you in this
old familiar form, but that he the way we talk about
you, which happens not infrequently.
: It is a matter of profound regret that I did not
get ea chance to see you while in Yashington, As a
matter of fact, your letter followed me all over the
map and I only received it a halfehour before I
returned to Northampton. I am so glad, however, to
have your address as I expect to come be Washington
within the next few months and I shall certainly
get in contact with you.
| I want to take this wopermrett also to etnare
tulsate you on the arrival of a little Mook. 3
very eager to see the babyeewhich is an adiea pean
for another visit to Weshington.
fhe International Student Assembly went off
fairly well, though we did suffer somewhat from the
lunatic fringe and perhaps even more so from a goodly
number of people whose simple minds seemed to be.
incapable of grasping the complications of the modern
world. Nobody came from Geneva. As a matter of fact,
this is just ss well as Geneva in this way cannot be
blamed for some of the purely political moves made
in ISS which might endanger our work among dikes rs
of war in Germany. = j
; Life in this quiet town continues as héotiie i. ,
ever. I have just finished a book on post-war edu-
cational reconstruction which will be brought cut t by
the Oxford University Press in November. I wean’
in exactly 335 daye and feel somewhat limp just.
Greatly looking Server? to the pleasure of seei you
and your family.
2 \
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"ver sincerely rourmy |
Walter M. Kotsohnig
1619 Columbine Ave.
Boulder, Colorado
February 2, 1943
Dear Mr. Kotsehnig,
I've been so pheased to see the good notices
your book has been receiving. I confess that I
haven't yet read it, partly because the little
boy takes up so much of my time and partly be-
cause Boulder gets things about a year after
they have come out everywhere else. I really am
going to read it, and I assure you this isn't one
of those intentions that hell is pavedwi th.
I think in the post-war educational scheme
there should be a place for learning Japanese
painlessly, starting at about the age of five
and continuing through college. This business
of getting it in one year is a Jittle breath-
taking.
Wish there were some prospect of seeing you
soon. There are a lot of things I'd like to
talk to you about, not to mention my congratula-
tions in person for your book. I'm awfully glad
it's such a success,
With all best wishes to you and Irs. Kotsch-
nig,
Affectionately,
pny
Meat Vath: Net
ee "February 10,1943.
a6. He Telfer. ak
«4619 Columbine Aveme
: | Moakder. Golorado. :
i Dear Jane Day: | |
ss hank you ever go much for your or aete at:
a vasaareee ‘Allian and myself were delighted io hear a
-s« €r0m you egain and I am obviously pleased with agi
king yYemarks about my book. I am afraid I didn’
9 into the question of how to learn Japanese — |
secs ae -— bcadrome es see your ‘point. :
a even more hee the Shan usual
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Lieutenant and the ‘ot
ministrator of the other 0 3
“Ree also left to become a captain 1
- “‘Dieky Fosdick is working in the State rnin ee aa oe
Thus you ean see that we arc” trying our best wo Q ace
7 iF re contributions to the war fforte
ith all good wishes to you andyour fat ly.
: a KEPT ~ aoe Ever sincerely yours. |
