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Reminiscence on Theodore Roosevelt, May 1925 (fragment)

Addams discusses a meeting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in which he advised women's clubs to agitate for labor reform.

Government Labor Requests Settlements

Reminiscence on Theodore Roosevelt, May 1925 (fragment)

Addams recalls Theodore Roosevelt's visits to Hull-House and told a story of losing her hat during one trip.

Criticism Hull-House Hull-House Visits Journalism

I Too Will Be Hatless!, March 28, 1925

Armes tells an anecdote about Addams losing her hat and Theodore Roosevelt taking his off too.

Hull-House Visits Lectures Meetings

Ethel Armes to Jane Addams, May 18, 1925

Armes thanks Addams for her stories about Theodore Roosevelt and asks for additional accounts of her meetings with him.

Publications Requests

The World Court, January 14, 1926

Addams offers a history of movements for world courts and peace. The speech was given at the Palmer House in Chicago to the Women's Roosevelt Republican Club.

Courts International Affairs Lectures Legislation Onsite Religion World War I

Statement on the Death of Theodore Roosevelt, January 6, 1919

Addams offers a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt on news of his death.

Tributes

Theodore Roosevelt--Social Worker, ca. January 9, 1919

Addams praises Roosevelt's work for immigrants, child labor, and corporate corruption during his political career.

Immigrants Politics Social Work Tributes Trusts

Jane Addams to Harold LeClair Ickes, January 11, 1919

Addams tells Ickes that she will give a memorial speech about Theodore Roosevelt but does not think she should be a member of the committee.

Lectures Requests Tributes

Harold LeClair Ickes to Jane Addams, January 9, 1919

Ickes notes that Addams has been asked to join a committee for a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt.

Requests Tributes

Statement on Republican National Convention, June 13, 1912

Addams discusses the impact of the Republican convention on the woman suffrage movement and presents her appeal to the platform committee. On June 19, she addressed the Party's platform committee, and her remarks are included here.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Progressive Party Pamphlet, ca. August 5, 1912

Produced to appeal to woman voters, this Progressive Party pamphlet includes Jane Addams' nomination speech, a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Addams, the party plank on equal suffrage, and the party's plans for democratic rule and social and industrial justice.

Lectures Politics Social Reform Woman Suffrage