that in the more fixed and older institutions
has not seemed possible.

I cannot acknowledge by name the many
individuals who, by gift of money and through
understanding and confidence, through work
and thought and sharing of the burdens,
have helped to build the House on Henry
Street. These colleagues have come all
through the years that have followed since
the little girl led me to her rear tenement
home. Though we are working together as
comrades for a common cause, I cannot resist
this opportunity to express my profound per-
sonal gratitude for the precious gifts that have
been so abundantly given. The first friends
who gave confidence and support to an un-
known and unexperimented venture have re-
mained staunch and loyal builders of the House.
And the younger generation with their gifts
have developed the plans of the House and
have found inspiration while they have given it.

In the making of the book, much help has
come from these same friends, and I should
be quite overwhelmed with the debt I owe
did I not feel that all of us who have worked
together have worked not only for each other
but for the cause of human progress; that is
the beginning and should be the end of the
House on Henry Street.

LILLIAN D. WALD.

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