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Fritz Max Otto Neumann to Jane Addams, May 9, 1921

Neumann asks Addams to donate to help provide medical care for Viennese children.

Austria Onsite Relief Efforts Requests

Germans O.K.: Jane Addams, December 3, 1921

The newspaper reports that Addams says Germany no longer needs relief help.

Food Shortages Germany Lectures Relief Efforts

Henriette Margot Irmgard von Treuberg to Jane Addams, October 3, 1924

Von Trueberg asks Addams for help in lobbying Congress to admit more immigrants from Italy, Germany and Austria.

Foreign Policy Immigrants Immigration Politics Relief Efforts Requests

Herbert Clark Hoover to American Relief Administration Staff, June 25, 1919

Hoover sends Addams a letter of introduction to field staff of the American Relief Administration.

Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Herbert Clark Hoover to John Work Garrett, June 25, 1919

Hoover sends Addams a letter of introduction to the American ambassador to the Netherlands.

Germany Government Relief Efforts Requests

Hilda Clark to Jane Addams, April 13, 1922

Clark sends Addams news of the activities of the Friends Relief Mission to alleviate food shortages in Austria.

Austria Food Shortages Internationalism Poland Relief Efforts Russia

Hilda Clark to Jane Addams, September 1, 1922

Clark updates Addams on the challenge of raising funds for continued relief work in Europe.

Relief Efforts Requests Travels

Ida Breitenbaum Müller to Jane Addams, April 9, 1920

Müller asks Addams to send food relief packages to her and other peace activists in Vienna.

Austria Food Shortages Help!Peace Requests

Interview About the League of Nations, September 30, 1921

Addams discusses the plight of Europe and asks the women of America to help.

Food Shortages Internationalism League of Nations Peace Relief Efforts

James Augustus Cadwallader, Sr. to Jane Addams, January 11, 1922

Cadwallader sends Addams information on relief efforts for her talks in Kansas.

Lectures Relief Efforts

James Grover McDonald to Jane Addams, June 22, 1920

McDonald thanks Addams for her help on efforts to bring relief to the Soviet Union.

Foreign Policy Peace Relief Efforts Soviet Union

Jane Addams and William Fisher Byron to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 1, 1922

Addams and Byron ask Blaine to attend a luncheon and advise the Chicago-based American Relief Administration food drafts for Russia.

Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Jane Addams and William Fisher Byron to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 3, 1922

Addams and Byron invite Blaine to a meeting of the Committee for American Relief for Russian Women and Children.

Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 12, 1920

Addams clarifies for Blaine two European relief appeals with similar names but different goals.

Germany Philanthropy Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, June 5, 1919

Addams writes Haldeman-Julius on her mother's birthday and tells about her work in Paris.

Family Peace Travels

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, March 16, 1920

Addams sends Haldeman-Julius an update on the French boy they sponsored in honor of John Linn.

Education Family France

Jane Addams to Anna Ruth Fry, August 20, 1921

Addams gives Fry her version of the problems with Brent Allinson and his plans for a new international committee for relief in Russia.

Onsite Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, May 18, 1920

Addams asks Colby to allow relief efforts to proceed in the Soviet Union.

Government Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, May 26, 1920

Addams thanks Colby and asks to send him more information on relief efforts in the Soviet Union.

Government Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Catherine Elizabeth Marshall, December 2, 1921

Addams tells Marshall that she will join the International Committee for Relief to Russia and promises her more news after the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Mass Meeting.

Conferences Internationalism League of Nations Memberships Peace

Jane Addams to Charles Henry Wacker, December 6, 1921

Addams provides Wacker with the actual content of her statement on conditions in Germany that was misreported in the press.

Food Shortages Germany Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Charles Henry Wacker, December 6, 1921

Addams sends Wacker a correction about reported statements she made on Germany's need for aid.

Food Shortages Germany Journalism Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Dorothy North, March 18, 1922

Addams tells North about her Florida trip and efforts to raise funds for Russian relief.

Family Health Onsite Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, October 16, 1919

Addams updates Balch on the efforts of the Woman's Peace Party and answers questions about Women's International League for Peace and Freedom procedures.

Finances Hungary Peace Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Grace Abbott, September 7, 1921

Addams congratulates Abbott on her new post at the Children's Bureau and thanks her for her work on Russian relief.

Friends Onsite Praise Relief Efforts Soviet Union

Jane Addams to Harold LeClair Ickes, October 26, 1928

Addams tells Ickes that her endorsement of Hoover is mostly a personal connection from relief efforts after World War I.

Politics Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Harriet Dunlop Prenter, February 25, 1920

Addams provides Prenter with details about an upcoming lecture in Canada.

Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, May 4, 1921

Addams asks Wald to ask Claire Sheridan to speak in Chicago for Russian Relief.

Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Manley Ottmer Hudson, November 12, 1920

Addams writes Hudson regarding the situation in Ireland and the organization of the American Commission on Ireland.

England Ireland Peace

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 23, 1919

Addams tells Smith she will likely be sailing home soon.

Health Onsite Relief Efforts Travels

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 25, 1919

Addams updates Smith on plans to travel to Holland and Germany.

Relief Efforts Travels

Jane Addams to Patrick James Gratten Mythen, May 20, 1920

Addams is eager to work with Abbot Patrick and the Russian Orthodox Church to promote relief efforts in Russia.

Relief Efforts Religion Russia

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 20, 1919

Addams asks Kellogg if the Survey would be interested in an article on her visit to Germany.

Relief Efforts Requests Writings

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 25, 1922

Addams asks Kellogg if he would like a copy of Maxim Gorki's letter on the Russian famine.

Onsite Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, October 1, 1919

Addams pays for her subscription for The Survey and tells Kellogg about a donation in response to her September article.

Memberships Relief Efforts Writings

Jane Addams to Ruth Wadsworth Furness Porter, May 23, 1922

Addams asks Porter to send letters on behalf of the International People's College because she thinks her name is overexposed.

Education Requests

Jane Addams to the Chicago Tribune, December 1921 (summary)

The Chicago Tribune retracts a statement it published based on Addams's claim that she was misquoted.

Journalism Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, April 5, 1922

Addams tells Thomas that their committee thinks that amalgamation of relief efforts should be done through the national organization.

Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, April 8, 1922

Addams tells Thomas that Allen Ricker's version of the amalgamation of relief organizations is not accurate.

Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, August 20, 1921

Addams sends Thomas some materials that show how opposed the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was to creating a new organization for Russian relief.

Relief Efforts Soviet Union

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, December 1, 1919

Addams explains to Thomas that if they can publicize the cooperation of Herbert Hoover, the collection of funds for German food relief would become easier.

Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts