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Woodrow Wilson to Jane Addams and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, January 23, 1917

A form letter from Wilson thanks Addams for her generous response to his recent speech.

Foreign Policy Peace

Progressive Party Questionnaire, ca. August 1912

A mail-in questionnaire asking Illinois voters about their interests and seeking volunteers.

Child Labor Labor Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to the Editor of the New York World, January 6, 1921

Addams praises the World for its promotion of disarmament.

Disarmament Journalism Peace

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

Patriotism and Pacifists in War Time (fragment), Spring 1917

A fragmented document written by Addams, possibly a draft of a speech she would later give. In it, Addams argues how nationalistic ideas are beginning to cloud peoples judgement about the war.

Help!Morality Patriotism Peace War World War I Writings

Maria Simpson Clingman to Jane Addams, December 12, 1909

Clingman sends an announcement of her one hundredth birthday.

Celebrations

Statement on Henry Leunker, October 29, 1913

Addams discusses unwelcome letters written to her and her efforts to have them stopped.

Crime Love Requests

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

Jane Addams to the New York Times, August 23, 1912

Addams' defends Roosevelt's stance on suffrage, rebutting Ida Husted Harper's criticism of the candidate. The letter was published on August 25.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: How the Work at Hull-House Has Grown (Third of Three Installments), May 1906

Addams lays out the expansion of Hull-House programs and buildings from 1890 to 1905.

Charity Hull-House Immigrants Settlements Unemployment

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, January 17, 1913

A circular sent to members of the National Council of Women to gather strength against a proposed Militia Pay Bill and increased militarism in the United States.

Government Military Peace Politics Requests

Lena Morrow Lewis to Jane Addams, October 20, 1912

Lewis criticizes Addams and the Progressive Party for claiming to be the only party supporting women's suffrage, as the Socialist Party has supported the suffrage movement since its founding in 1901.

Criticism Politics Socialism Woman Suffrage