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Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, March 19, 1920

Balch asks Addams if they can propose her for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Prize Requests

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, November 2, 1920

Balch tells Addams about the efforts to secure the Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Alice Hamilton, November 2, 1920

Balch tells Hamilton about efforts to secure the Nobel Prize for Addams as a means to raise awareness of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's work.

Peace Requests Tributes

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 3, 1920

Balch tells Addams the process for securing the Nobel Prize needs to begin in America.

Nobel Prize

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 5, 1920

Balch advises Addams on the Nobel Prize complications and suggests that if Addams wants to stop it she needs to request that they stop.

Nobel Prize Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, December 7, 1920

Balch advises Addams that the easiest way for her to stop the Nobel effort is to withdraw her name.

Nobel Prize Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, February 7, 1921

Balch updates Addams on plans for the International Congress of Women and other Women's International League for Peace and Freedom activities.

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Mary Cooke Branch Munford to Norwegian Nobel Committee, January 9, 1923

Munford nominates Addams for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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James Grover McDonald to Robert Morss Lovett, January 19, 1923

McDonald tells Lovett that he has written a letter for Addams to the Nobel Prize Committee.

Nobel Prize

Oswald Garrison Villard to Robert Morss Lovett, January 19, 1923

Villard tells Lovett that he has written to the Nobel Committee regarding Addams and will suggest it to others.

Nobel Prize

Ruth Randall Edstrom to Jane Addams, April 28, 1925

Edstrom updates Addams on efforts to nominate her for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Prize Peace

Ruth Randall Eström to Jane Addams, May 30, 1925

Estrom asks Addams to send more of her writings to assist in nominating her for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Prize Peace Requests

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, April 13, 1927

Addams tells Kelley that she can present her name for the Nobel Peace Prize, but it will be futile.

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Martha Emily Larsen Jahn to Lydia Marie Schmidt, December 23, 1927

Larsen-Jahn sends Schmidt details about the process of nominating Addams for the Addams for the Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize

Lydia Marie Schmidt to Emily Greene Balch, January 9, 1928

Schmidt tells Balch of her efforts to investigate nominating Addams for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Prize

Emily Greene Balch to Mary Ryott Sheepshanks, ca. January 12, 1928

Balch asks Sheepshanks for a discussion of nominating Addams for the Nobel Prize at the upcoming executive committee meeting.

Nobel Prize

Emily Greene Balch to Mary Sheepshanks, ca. January 12, 1928

Balch asks Sheepshanks for a discussion of nominating Addams for the Nobel Prize at the upcoming executive committee meeting.

Nobel Prize Peace Requests

Lydia Marie Schmidt to Emily Greene Balch, January 12, 1928

Schmidt tells Balch that she fears they are too late to nominate Addams for the Nobel Prize and they should aim for next year.

Nobel Prize Recommendations

Emily Greene Balch note, ca. March 22, 1928

Balch notes the progress in proposing that Addams be nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize

Jane Addams to Mary Ryott Sheepshanks, June 9, 1928

Addams sends Sheepshanks some material for the Nobel Prize effort, but has little faith.

Nobel Prize Requests

Anne Henrietta Martin to Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith, January 1929

Martin sends Smith and Addams a Nobel Prize nomination by David Starr Jordan.

Nobel Prize

David Starr Jordan to Anne Henrietta Martin, January 10, 1929

Jordan tells Martin his opinion of Jane Addams's as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate.

Nobel Prize Peace Praise

Emily Greene Balch to Gustaf Axel Jäederholm, January 11, 1929

Balch asks Jäederholm to support Addams' nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Anne Henrietta Martin to Mary Rozet Smith, January 15, 1929

Martin sends Smith Nobel prize letters and discusses the nomination and news that a Native American mortar and pestle will be delivered to Hull-House.

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