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Addams describes the efforts of Hull-House in a speech to the Sunset Club in Chicago.

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Altgeld thanks Addams for her testimony to the Industrial Commission and praises Hull-House.

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Addams thanks Wald for sending equipment for the Hull-House Coffee House.

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Addams eagerly awaits Kelley's arrival for a month in March and plans a meeting.

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Addams reminds Blaine about a reception for neighborhood teachers at which Elizabeth Hughes will speak.

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Addams sends Blaine early products of the labor museum, which Blaine helped inspire and support.

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Addams thanks Blaine for her donation, which will secure future manual classes and the Labor Museum.

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Addams invites Jones and his wife to come to Hull-House to meet Peytr Kropotkin and to hear him lecture.

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Addams reports on the recommendations of the City Homes Association in regard to the building of tenement houses in Chicago.

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Addams writes Ainsworth that she came back directly from New Orleans to push the building schemes at Hull-House.

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Addams asks Sutliff for the use of the college buildings for the Rockford College Summer School and explains that her fundraising work for Hull-House makes it impossible for her to undertake other things.

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Addams writes Wald about staffing at Hull-House and a Miss Green.

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Addams discusses expansions to Hull-House and donations, and then reports on a visit to Smith's family.

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Addams writes Wald about hiring a Miss Green for the Coffee House if Ida Cronk leaves.

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Addams reports to Ely about her lack of progress on her book, Democracy and Social Ethics, because of activities at Hull-House.

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Addams writes Haldeman, discussing summer plans and noting that she will be at summer school more than usual.

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Addams updates Kelley about her life and their friends.

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Addams writes Smith about upcoming events at Rockford College.

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Addams graciously declines Skiff's offer of museum cases for the Hull-House Labor Museum, because there is no room for them.

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Addams discusses the challenges facing college women, including the habit of self-preparation, a tendency to make an exception of herself, and the danger that study without action makes a person timid and irresolute. She argues that there is a need to do and to do for others without concern for one's own reputation that makes for good Christian work.

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A draft of Addams' article about the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

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Addams discusses the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

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Addams writes Haldeman about sending baby gifts to Esther Hulbert, and she also reports various news.

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Addams invites Wald to visit at Hull-House.

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Also known as The Church and the Social Problem, September 25, 1901

Addams recalls the different difficulties in creating an inviting and educational space for Italian immigrants.

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A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Woman's Club of Bloomington, on the work of the University Social Settlement. Addams provided a history of settlement work and the basic principles at Hull-House.

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Addams discusses Tolstoy's life and philosophy.

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Newspaper coverage of Addams' November 19 address to the Chicago Business Woman's Club linking child labor to laziness in adults.

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Addams thanks Sikes for her contribution to the Christmas fund at Hull-House.

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Addams provides an overview of the activities of the Hull-House Labor Museum, complete with illustrations of weaving. The sixteen-page report discusses the weaving and cloth-making techniques of various immigrants who live in the Hull-House neighborhood.

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Addams asks Skiff if the Field Museum might donate a collection of medieval textiles to the Hull-House Labor Museum.

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Addams thanks Blaine for her check and promises to show her the Labor Museum.

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In this published excerpt of a lecture given on March 25, 1902, Addams describes how Hull-House provides a cheaper form of theater entertainment for the neighborhood.

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Jones writes Addams about her request for a gas engine, adding that he hopes to see her soon.

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Addams writes to Wald about the reception of William Dean Howells' plays at Hull-House and about her plans for a trip to California.

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Fragment of a letter from Jane Addams, possibly to Mary Rozet Smith, that discusses invitations and the visits of Florence Kelley and the Linns.

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Addams reports to Smith about various events that have transpired in her absence.

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Addams reports about Chicago's reputation on the East Coast as a dirty city.

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Addams writes Smith of the train crash she experienced and sends news about the activities of friends and family.

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Addams writes Smith about everyday activities.

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Addams writes Blaine about John Dewey's talk at Hull-House and invites her to attend his next address.

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Addams discusses child labor, the topic of an upcoming lecture at the Summer School.

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An excerpt of Addams' lecture on how settlement houses give people opportunities to practice arts and crafts, an important activity for immigrants afraid of losing their cultural heritage.

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Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

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Addams discusses efforts made to reach the needy through settlement work. She delivered this speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities.

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Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

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Addams sends Blaine a tea caddy produced in the Hull-House shops.

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Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

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Carman encloses a report (not attached) of an inspection of Hull-House's operations looking for ways to run it more economically.

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Addams describes social settlement work and its impact on immigrant neighborhoods.

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