Chauncey McCormick Papers

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Jane Addams to Chauncey McCormick, October 9, 1906

Addams writes to McCormick expressing her sympathy for a harmful accident McCormick was involved in.

Friends

Jane Addams to Chauncey McCormick, May 18, 1906

Addams is pleased to know that McCormick will be at Hull-House next summer.

Friends, Hull-House

Description

Letters, clippings, photographs, cartoons, and other mementoes. McCormick was a major figure in Chicago society and business, and of some prominence nationally for his public work, and most of the correspondence pertains to such matters during the 1940s and 1950s. Letters include politically oriented correspondence to Senator Charles Baker, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly, Governor Adlai Stevenson, Dr. James Brown IV, and the chief of the United States Children's Bureau, Katharine Lenroot. Also personal letters with longtime friends like his cousin and Chicago Tribune editor Robert McCormick, Herbert Hoover, and Philip L. Goodwin, as well as early letters between Chauncey and members of both the McCormick and Deering families. Some World War I correspondence is written in French to General Louis de Maud'huy, and members of the Mirman, de Guigné, and de Polignac families, among others. Condolences sent to McCormick's family upon his death account for a significant amount of correspondence. The collection also includes photographs McCormick took during World War I, portraits, the homes in Wheaton, Illinois and Seal Harbor, Maine, and publicity stills from events like Art Institute programs. Other material includes speeches and publications for his philanthropic groups, World War I memorabilia like maps and postcards, awards and certificates, biographical newspaper clippings about him or his work, and a cartoon by John McCutcheon.

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http://www.newberry.org/collections/FindingAids/mccormick/McCormick.html

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Chauncey McCormick Papers