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Mary Ellen Richmond to Jane Addams, 1902

Richmond gives Addams detailed feedback on her book, Democracy and Social Ethics.

Books Charity Criticism Onsite Praise Settlement Movement

Statement on Charges Against Hull-House, November 11, 1903

Addams denies an accusation that Hull-House turned away a woman appealing for help.

Charity Criticism Health Hull-House

Arthur Gleason to Leila Seward Gleason, May 4, 1906

Gleason discusses a dinner he had with Jane Addams in a letter to his mother.

Criticism Public Opinion

James Keeley to Jane Addams, March 29, 1907

Keeley writes Adams to refute charges printed in the Chicago Examiner that he called her a "freak and monomaniac."

Criticism Journalism Public Opinion

Statement Against Expanding the Navy, January 15, 1909 (summary)

Newspaper report of a leaflet Addams and others produced in opposition to the enlargement of the U.S. Navy.

Criticism Government Military Peace War

Charles Johnson Gedge to Jane Addams, October 30, 1911

Gedge praises Addams' work and her article on white slavery, but he takes issue with her use of the word "cadet."

Criticism Labor White Slavery Writing

Anne Eliza Buchanan to Jane Addams, November 12, 1911

Buchanan objects to Addams' use of "cadet" in her articles about social evil because it is also used in military and high school connotations.

Criticism Requests Writings

William Denny Brereton, Jr. to Jane Addams, November 24, 1911

Brereton objects to Addams' use of the word "cadet" in her latest article in McClure's Magazine.

Criticism Military

Alonzo Gray to Jane Addams, November 25, 1911

Gray objects to Addams' use of the word "cadet" in her McClure's Magazine article.

Criticism Military Writings

Frank L. Nelson to Jane Addams, November 27, 1911

On behalf of the parents of 25,000-30,000 cadets in the United States, Nelson takes acception to Addam's derogatory use of the word "cadet" in her article in McClure's.

Criticism Military

John W. C. Abbott to Jane Addams, December 15, 1911

Abbott writes Addams to offer a gentle criticism of her negative use of the word "cadet" in her McClure's articles.

Criticism Writing

George Albert Bellamy to Jane Addams, March 8, 1912

Bellamy praises Addams for her series in McClure's Magazine but also points out a small mistake in the February installment.

Criticism Writings

Commentary on Jane Addams, April 10, 1912

The Mirror criticizes Addams for her recent appearance at the Majestic Theatre, questioning whether she was paid and the probity of the appearance.

Criticism Theater

George Ashley Lewis to Jane Addams, April 30, 1912

Lewis criticizes a source Addams used for one of her articles in McClure's Magazines.

Criticism Writings Youth

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, May 2, 1912

Ely thanks Addams for sending him a copy of her new book and questions her decision to campaign for woman suffrage.

Criticism Praise Thanks Woman Suffrage Writings

Jane Addams to Editor, New York Dramatic Mirror, May 4, 1912

Addams questions the Mirror's coverage of her views on theater, asking to know the source of their reporting.

Criticism Requests Theater Woman Suffrage

Howard A. Kelley to Jane Addams, May 12, 1912

Kelly wishes to republish Addams article "The Church and the Social Evil," but he wants to verify a citation about St. Augustine first.

Criticism Prostitution Religion Writings

Commentary on Jane Addams lettter, June 12, 1912

The Mirror publishes Addams' letter of May 4 and criticizes Addams support for censoring motion pictures.

Criticism Free Speech Theater

Phoebe E. H. Willets to Jane Addams, July 11, 1912

Willets criticizes Addams for writing about prostitution in her latest book, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil and demands that she cease publishing it to protect morality.

Books Criticism Morality Prostitution Requests White Slavery

Edward H. Wilkins to Jane Addams, July 14, 1912

Wilkins asks Addams if he can send her his manuscript for her critique.

Books Criticism Public Opinion Requests

Phoebe E. H. Willets to Jane Addams, July 17, [1912]

Willets writes to Addams about what she sees as the negative impact of Addams' book about prostitution.

Books Criticism Public Opinion

At Last a Genuinely Independent Newspaper, ca. August 1912

Winslow criticizes Theodore Roosevelt as the Progressive Party candidate for the presidency and criticizes Jane Addams for supporting him.

Criticism Politics

Unknown (Re: Theodore Roosevelt) to Jane Addams, August 1912

The unknown writer criticizes Addams's support of Theodore Roosevelt, partly because Roosevelt, as governor of New York, refused to commute the death sentence of Martha M. Place in 1899.

Crime Criticism Politics