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Lecture on Social Settlement System, July 28, 1902

Addams discusses the settlement house's role as a charity and the means by which it appeals to the poor. She spoke at the Decatur Chautauqua.

Charities Child Labor Lectures Settlement Movement Social Work

Comments at the University Society Annual Meeting, March 21, 1903 (excerpts)

Newspaper summary of Addams' comments about the need to increase the work of settlements to meet need.

Charities Lectures Meetings Poverty Settlement Movement

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, December 5, 1904

Lindsey writes Addams to introduce her to Denver men who are traveling east and expresses his appreciation for any courtesies that Addams will show them during their visit.

Charities Hull-House Visits Requests

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, December 5, 1904

Lindsey writes Addams regarding members of the Denver Charity Commission who are traveling in Chicago and asks her to meet them. Lindsey also reports on his successful election.

Charities Hull-House Visits Requests

Hull-House, 1908

Addams co-wrote the Hull-House entry in The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform, covering its history and accomplishments.

Charities Crafts Education Hull-House Hull-House Residents Immigrants Settlements Social Welfare Theater

Jane Addams to Ann Harper, February 19, 1908

Addams writes to Harper about the Children's Aid Society in Chicago and Harper's desire to help children.

Charities Courts

Addams reports on Hull-House's facilities and social services on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary, providing a sense of the costs of maintaining buildings and programs, and ending with an appeal for financial support.

Charities Finances Hull-House

Princess Alice to Jane Addams, July 10, 1910

Princess Alice writes Addams looking for aid for homeless British women in Paris.

Charities England Requests Social Welfare Youth

Jacob H. Schiff to Lillian D. Wald, February 24, 1911

Schiff writes Wald about his disagreements with Edward T. Devine, who holds the Schiff Chair of Social Economics at Columbia University.

Charities Education Requests

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Noah Baxter Feagin, April 3, 1911

Breckinridge sends Feagin a copy of the Settlement Bibliography as a resource for researching Chicago philanthropic women.

Charities Requests Social Work

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 18, 1911

Addams and Nicholes ask Blaine, along with other members of the Woman's City Club, to encourage their aldermen to attend the Child Welfare Exhibit in Chicago.

Charities Child Welfare Requests

Jane Addams to Belle Case La Follette, July 6, 1911

Addams expresses her concern to La Follette that the After School Club is not a charity.

Charities Children Education

Kate Waller Barrett to Jane Addams, December 21, 1911

Barrett thanks Addams for her articles about prostitution and explains the work of the Florence Crittenton Mission.

Charities Religion Settlements

Lillian Freeman Clarke to Jane Addams, March 6, 1912

Clarke praises Addams' series of articles in McClure's Magazine and shares the three principles she employs in her work with unmarried mothers.

Charities Praise Public Opinion

The Humanitarian Value of Civil Service, March 22, 1912 (draft)

Addams discusses the weakness of civil service as a force for humanitarianism, detailing the shortcomings of the public takeover of efforts that were previously in the domain of private individuals and charities.

Charities Civil Service Government Public Health

Jane Addams to Ellery Sedgwick, May 3, 1912

Addams declines Sedgwick's invitation to write an article on the Salvation Army for one of his magazines.

Charities Writing

Chicago Association of Commerce Application for Endorsement, October 27, 1913

An application for endorsement as a charitable organization from the Chicago Association of Commerce.

Charities Government Hull-House

Edward T. Ware to Jane Addams, February 5, 1914

Ware asks Addams for advice for a fundraising visit to Chicago to benefit Atlanta University.

African-Americans Charities Education Requests

Address on Unemployment, February 24, 1915

Addams spoke to the City Club about the unemployment crisis, explaining the role of Hull-House in providing space for public debate on the issue.

Charities Civil Service Employment Hull-House Hull-House Residents Jobs Lectures Philanthropy Social Welfare Social Work Unemployment

Mabel Thorp Boardman to Jane Addams, July 29, 1915

Boardman writes to Addams about the work the Red Cross is doing during the war, and hopes that nations would stop fighting each other.

Charities Peace War

Henry Stewart to Jane Addams, November 29, 1916

Stewart informs Addams of an endorsement by the Subscriptions Investigating Committee and the proper format for referencing this endorsement on paper.

Charities Finances Requests