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Osgood reports receiving funds from Addams for travel expenses.

Speranza thanks Addams for her letter and praises her work, inviting her to come see what he is working on in New York.

Sears apologizes to Addams for cancelling a meeting and asks to reschedule.

Addams sends Osgood and Commons reimbursements for travel expenses.

Osgood updates Addams about the creation of a New York branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Addams invites Thomas to speak about suffrage as part of a second push to secure municipal voting rights for women in Chicago.

Writing on behalf of Oscar Straus, Stevens writes Addams that he has not received the bulletin she promised.

Osgood asks Addams to write an article about public health for Charities and the Commons.

Due to the press of her work, Addams writes Osgood to decline her invitation to write an article on public health for Charities and the Commons.

Straus declines Addams' request to participate on the Committee on Immigrants of the National Conference of Charities and Correction because of his position as Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Osgood offers Addams an extended deadline to enduce her to write an article on public health for Charities and the Commons.

Addams refuses, again, to write an article for Charities and the Commons.

Addams asks Whitlock to visit Hull-House and make a speech to a woman's suffrage group while in Chicago.

Whitlock declines Addams' request to lecture before a suffrage committee, but he accepts her offer to visit Hull-House.

Hutchinson offers Bowen leads for securing donations for Hull-House and discusses future visits.

Addams suggests some reading to Edwards and sends along two Hull-House pamphlets.

Bentall asks Addams for help in launching a letter-writing campaign to President Theodore Roosevelt in support of political refugees.

Addams sends Haldeman a Christmas present and offers holiday news about the family.

Addams asks Booth to thank Anita McCormick Blaine for her donation to the the Committee for the Extension of Municipal Suffrage for Chicago Women.

Addams praises Wallas for his book Human Nature and Politics.

Thomas thanks Addams for information regarding the Chicago Board of Education.

Reynolds asks Addams to support a committee working to prevent extradition of radicals from the United States to Russia, where they would be persecuted.

Nicholes invites Whitlock and his wife to a suffrage meeting and to stay at Hull-House when he is in Chicago.

Addams writes to Haldeman about Esther Hulbert and her children visiting Chicago on their way to Cedarville.

Addams argues that American women are behind their European peers with regard to individual rights.

Addams discusses the problem of juvenile delinquency.

Louise de Koven Bowen presented the report of the Children's Committee of the National Conference on Charities and Correction for Jane Addams, discussing the lives of children in tenements and proposing more resources for recreation for them. The speech was given during a session on Children held on May 23.

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money.

Newspaper report of Addams' speech on the need for entertainments among the poor in Chicago. The speech was given for the Sunday Evening Club.

Percy hopes to reschedule an appointment with Berger and encloses a letter from Addams introducing him.

Addams pays tribute to Theodore Parker at a Memorial Banquet in Chicago, where she praised his anti-slavery work and support of black suffrage, blamed his generation for not extending suffrage to women, and surmised that Parker would have ultimately supported the franchise for women had he lived longer.

Addams explains the difference between opposing child acting as an occupation and a vocation.

The published version of Addams' speech to the American Sociological Society, which argues that social interaction is the key to advancing society. In urban areas, city governments need to provide varied and organized recreations to build community.

Summary of Addams' arguments for child welfare and the role of settlements. Portions of the article summarizing other speakers were not included.

In this draft, Addams offers a strong indictment against old fashioned religious education and argues that the church, in order to encourage modern youth to see the validity of religion, must engage the realities and distractions of urban life.

In a report on her testimony before the Illinois Senate Judiciary committee, Addams argues that life on the stages poses dangers to child actors.

Addams speaks at the Chicago Credit Men's Association about the dangers of unregulated dance halls for Chicago's youth.

Addams argues that if children have a chance to play outside they are less likely to become criminals.

Addams' brief opening address at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit.

In this speech at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Boston, Addams calls on educators and social workers to demand useful education for children so that they are better prepared for a life in industry.

Newspaper report of an Addams' statement about the causes of violent labor actions being antiquated laws.

Addams discusses women's suffrage and the importance of it in American society at a speech to the Wisconsin Assembly on January 25.

Report of Addams' speech in Milwaukee, that discusses the plight of prostitutes in a society when only men can vote. 

A newspaper report of Addams's speech to the Milwaukee branch of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, which  uses humor to render the male arguments against woman suffrage absurd. A version of this speech was later published in the Ladies' Home Journal.

Boyd praises Addams for her McClure's articles on prostitution and boasts about his some of his own work for the common good.

Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejecting aid to "fallen" women. She calls for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners. The speech was later published in Messages of the Men and Religion Movement and in Vigilance.

A newspaper report of Addams' speech in New York on "The Church and the Social Evil."

A newspaper report of Addams' speech in New York entitled "The Church and the Social Evil."

A newspaper report of Addams' April 23 speech at Carnegie Hall entitled "The Church and the Social Evil," published on May 13.

A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Civic and Commerce Association in which she discusses the benefits of social centers.

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