Letter Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 1911-08-08

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            <p> Thank you so much for all the literature you have sent, the first draft of the book
                is finished but I am too near to judge it.</p>
            <salute> Always affectionately </salute>
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Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 8 August 1911: A TEI Edition Abbott/Addams Letter Digitization Project Emily Benes Caitlin Henry Seolha Lee Rosamond Thalken the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS)
360 Huntington Avenue Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115
27 April 2018

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 Jane Addams Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, 08 August 1911 August 8, 1911 Edith and Grace Abbott, Papers (MS 129). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. view page image(s) August 8 1911 Baymeath Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Miss Abbott,

I have written to Prof Commons that you will write him in regard to Miss Stewart. It would be a fine opening for the right person.

Thank you so much for all the literature you have sent, the first draft of the book is finished but I am too near to judge it.

Always affectionately Mrs. Jane Addams. view page image(s)

Edith Abbott

Edith Abbott was born on September 26, 1876 in Grand Island, Nebraska, into a politically and socially active Nebraskan family. After receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Edith attended the University of Chicago on a fellowship to study political economy. In 1905, she obtained her doctoral degree and spent multiple years at the University College London studying social economics and welfare. She returned to the United States to continue a successful career of teaching and researching social welfare alongside Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other women at Jane Addams’ Hull House. Abbott’s work focused on social statistics as a methodology to look critically at women’s rights, child labor, immigration, and public welfare. She was promoted to Dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration in 1924, and held that position until retiring in 1942.

John Commons

Born on October 13, 1862 in Hollansburg, Ohio, John Rogers Commons is best known as the first economist committed to advocating the U.S. labor through the research, movement, and legislative activity. After graduating Oberlin College in 1888, he continued his studies at Johns Hopkins University for two years. In 1895, Commons began teaching at Syracuse University from which he was fired four years later as he was considered radical by the school. In 1904, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Wisconsin to teach labor economics until his retirement in 1933. He made many contributions to Wisconsin as well as the federal government, notably in the outline of legislation in Wisconsin for labor unions, unemployment insurance, minimum wage and in the design of the Social Security Act of 1935. His acclaimed publications include Documentary History of American Industrial Society and History of Labor in the United States. Commons died on May 11, 1945.

Ella Stewart

Miss Stewart likely refers to Ella Jane (Seass) Stewart. Ella Stewart was a prominent lecturer and suffragist born in 1890 in Arthur, Illinois. During her career she held office in several suffrage associations as vice president and later president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association from 1902-1911 and as secretary of the Nation American Woman Suffrage Association from 1908-1911. She was also active in local organizations such as the Chicago Woman's Club, the American Association of University Women, and the Woman's City Club. Stewart was the vice chair of the Department of Social and Industrial Conditions, was a trustee of Eureka College, and directed the Association of Chicago Bank Women.

Jane Addams

Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois in a wealthy family. She received the bachelor's degree from Rockford College for Women in 1882. She studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, but completed only one year due to her poor health. Inspired from her visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in London, she co-founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 to help immigrants in Chicago. Addams was actively engaged in woman suffrage and international peace movement serving as an officer in the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and leading organizations such as Women's Peace Party, the International Congress of Women and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 71. Addams died of cancer in 1935.

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Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 8 August 1911: A TEI Edition Abbott/Addams Letter Digitization Project Emily Benes Caitlin Henry Seolha Lee Rosamond Thalken the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS)
360 Huntington Avenue Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115
27 April 2018

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 Jane Addams Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, 08 August 1911 August 8, 1911 Edith and Grace Abbott, Papers (MS 129). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Jane Addams Edith Abbott August 8 1911 Baymeath Bar Harbor, Maine. My dear Miss Abbott,

I have written to Prof Commons that you will write him in regard to Miss Stewart. It would be a fine opening for the right person.

Thank you so much for all the literature you have sent, the first draft of the book is finished but I am too near to judge it.

Always affectionately Mrs. Jane Addams.