Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, Catharine Waugh McCulloch Papers

Description

Mary Earhart Dillon assembled this collection in the early 1940s in the course of writing Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (published under the name Mary Earhart by University of Chicago Press in 1944). Due to the difficulty of finding primary source material, MED contacted various women in the Midwest (especially the Chicago lawyer and suffragist, Catharine Waugh McCulloch) who had been active in temperance, woman's suffrage, and related movements and activities. These women gave MED books and papers they had created or accumulated during their work for these causes, and MED, as a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, arranged with the university library that she would deposit the materials there when she had completed her research.

Alternative Title

Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, Catharine Waugh McCulloch Papers

Documents in this collection

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Addams declines to sign a letter McCulloch sent her because it fails to strike the right tone. This letter is likely related to a statement McCulloch released on December 6 about Theodore Roosevelt's support for women's suffrage.

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Addams writes McCulloch about because indisposed because Mary Smith is ill.

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Addams provides McCulloch with the details of her upcoming schedule in an attempt to arrange a meeting with her.

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Addams sends McCulloch some letters and suggests a meeting to discuss plans for the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Milwaukee.

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Addams asks for McCulloch's opinion on an issue, asking her to respond after the municipal election.

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Addams sends McCulloch more reading material.

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Addams writes Stewart with details about the Congressional hearings on woman suffrage that the women are attending in Washington on March 13.

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Breckinridge writes Addams about some political intrigue related to the Mississippi Valley Conference .

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Addams sends McCulloch a pin from the International Suffrage Association meeting in Budapest.

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Addams praises McCulloch's presentation and is being updated on events through Abbott and Breckinridge because she is caring for Bowen while she is ill.

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Addams informs McCulloch that she cannot fulfill her request.

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Addams writes to McCulloch explaining she has no intention of joining an Advisory Board for Illinois Equal Suffrage Association.

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Addams asks McCulloch to pass along a suggestion (not found) to the proper committee.

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Addams sends McCulloch a donation for Rockford College.

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Addams thanks McCullogh for showing her some letters and promises to stop by.

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Addams tells McCulloch that her bad press might be damaging to Rockford College.