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letterhead Telephone Monroe 1030 Chicago Commons, Grand Ave. and Morgan St.

May 9, 1917 in pencil to left of letterhead underlined: Personal in re health & our work

My dear Mr Lawson,

 It is too bad you are laid off from full duty these stirring times, but I am glad to learn that you are improving surely however slowly. 

You would have enjoyed meeting theFrench envoys. They were a noble group of men - so simple and great.

The Daily News does great Service these days. Just now its forth showing of the situation in Russia is most important. Its dispatches are so much nearer the facts as I learn from my son's letters and from Mr. Lawrence?Houghpeling? who has just arrived from the scenes of the revolution in Petrograd. than the A.P. A reports.

I am inclose a copy of Graham's last letter which gives an interesting glimpse of his eye witnessing. Please return it, as what he writes is semi-confidential.