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

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

Awards and Honors Health Nobel Prize Requests

John Palmer Gavit to Alice Hamilton, January 9, 1929

Gavit tells Hamilton how concerned he is about Addams's health.

Health

John Palmer Gavit to Jeannette Flitcraft Stetson, December 26, 1928

Gavit's secretary asks Stetson how Addams's is feeling.

Health

Emily Greene Balch to Camille Drevet, March 2, 1929

Balch tells Drevet that Addams has been ill and responds for her to Drevet's update on work in Romania.

Foreign Policy Health Peace United States

Louise Stanley to Julie Judd Swanzy, December 3, 1928

Stanley asks Swanzy to clarify the meetings planned for the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Conferences Economics Meetings Women's Rights

Frances Cummings Rowatt to Eleanor Mary Hinder, November 15, 1928

Rowatt thanks Hinder for the resolutions from the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Canada Conferences Women's Rights

Carl Bismarck Roden to Jane Addams, November 28, 1930

Roden tells Addams that the Chicago Public Library will extend the hours of the Hull-House branch to help serve unemployed men.

Hull-House Library Requests

Baker Brownell to Jane Addams, July 20, 1929

Brownell asks Addams to speak to his Contemporary Thought program at Northwestern University.

Education Lectures Requests

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, July 2, 1928

Lathrop tells Addams her thoughts on the plans for the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference and Grace Abbot's child welfare plan.

Child Welfare Conferences

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, February 21, 1930

Kellogg asks Addams to support the Radburn Plan for housing.

Housing Requests Social Welfare Urban Planning

Theodore Sherman Class to Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann, February 20, 1930

Class updates Ramondt-Hirschmann on the process of finalizing the Amanda Lauterbach's bequest to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Finances Law Peace

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Jane Addams, February 15, 1930

Doty asks Addams to give a radio statement regarding the London Naval Conference.

Conferences Disarmament Peace Requests

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Jane Addams, February 13, 1930 Also known as Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, February 13, 1930

Doty asks Addams for a statement on peace to help move negotiations at the London Naval Conference.

Disarmament Peace Radio

Arthur Piper Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 14, 1929

Kellogg congratulates Addams on her article being again been selected as an outstanding article of the month.

Public Opinion Publishing Writings

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Dorothy Detzer, February 4, 1930

Doty tells Detzer about her arrival in England and news of the London Naval Conference.

Conferences Disarmament Peace

Jane Addams to Theodore Sherman Class, ca, May 11, 1928

Addams tells Class that she is ready to receive the balance of the Lauterbach legacy.

Finances Law Peace

Dorothy Detzer to Emily Greene Balch and Hannah Clothier Hull, February 12, 1930

Detzerupdates Balch and Hull about lobbying for peace and the London Naval Conference.

Disarmament Government Peace

Emily Greene Balch to Dorothy Celene Thompson, February 12, 1930

Balch asks Thompson to donate to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Finances Peace Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 7, 1929

Kellogg asks Addams to send him a signed photograph.

Photography Requests

Mary Anderson to Jane Addams, December 7, 1929

Anderson sends Addams news about Mary Woolley chairing the 1930 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Conferences

Arthur Piper Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 3, 1929.

Kellogg pays Addams for her article and tells her that the artists who did the illustrations have also been paid.

Finance Publishing

Salmon Oliver Levinson to Jane Addams, December 2, 1929

Levinson sends Addams his sympathy for her recent accident.

Health Requests

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Florence Kelley, December 1, 1929

Lathrop thanks Kelley for sending a photograph and catches up on news.

Friends Photography

Emily Greene Balch to Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox, February 12, 1930

Balch tells Cox that she won't be able to visit the Honolulu Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Peace Requests Travels

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 17, 1930

Kellogg tells Addams that he cannot locate her great nephew John Winthrop Linn Allen.

Family Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 17, 1930

Kellogg tells Addams that he has sent her prohibition article out per her request.

Requests Writings

Harold LeClair Ickes to Jane Addams, March 15, 1930

Ickes thanks Addams for lobbying President Hoover on the welfare of Native American children.

Child Welfare Government Legislation Requests

Albert Joseph Kennedy to Jane Addams, March 14, 1930

Kennedy tells Addams about a new children's museum and plans for the National Federation of Settlements Conference.

Art Children Conferences Museums Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Richard Watson Yerkes, March 19, 1930

Addams thanks Yerkes for his donation to Hull-House.

Finances Hull-House Philanthropy

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 12, 1930

Kellogg asks Addams for drafts of her chapters of The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House.

Requests Writings

Abraham Epstein to Jane Addams, March 12, 1930

Epstein invites Addams to attend the Third National Conference on Old Age Security.

Conferences Old Age Requests

Lillian D. Wald to Mary Rozet Smith, March 8, 1930

Wald thanks Smith for her get well gift and tells of her recovery.

Health

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, March 6, 1930

Kellogg sends Addams well-wishes for Ellen Gates Starr and tells of his wife's illness.

Health Writings

Emily Greene Balch to Elisabeth Waern-Bugge, December 30, 1929

Balch thanks Waern-Bugge for serving as an expert in arms manufacture and traffic.

Military Peace

Jane Addams to Lewis Henry Titterton, March 7, 1930

Addams tells Titterton that she can deliver the manuscript for The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, in August.

Publishing Writing

Emily Greene Balch to Madeleine Zabriskie Doty, December 30, 1929

Balch asks Doty for confirmation about the expenses of the Pax International.

Finance Peace Publications

Mary Ryott Sheepshanks to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, February 11, 1930

Sheepshanks asks Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Sections for statements on disarmament to send to the London Naval Conference.

Disarmament Peace Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, February 27, 1930

Kellogg thanks Addams for writing new articles for the Survey and asks advice on a presentation.

Articles Requests Settlements

Julius Rosenwald to Louise de Koven Bowen, December 28, 1929

Rosenwald’s secretary tells Bowen that he will donate $1,000 to Hull House.

Hull-House Philanthropy

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, February 6, 1930

Kellogg sends Addams information about the Survey's finances.

Finances Memberships Publications

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Mary Ryott Sheepshanks, February 1, 1930

Doty tells Sheepshanks her impressions of the London Naval Conference and suggests that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom join other women's groups in appealing to the conference.

Conferences Onsite Peace