Oscar Solomon Straus Papers

Description

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notebooks, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as U.S. minister and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), U.S. secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands.

Rights

Cleared

Alternative Title

Oscar Solomon Straus Papers

Documents in this collection

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Addams provides Straus with information on the Committee on Immigrants program coming up at the Conference of Charities and Correction.

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Table of contents and page with the membership of the Committees on immigrants, press and publicity, and state corresponding secretaries.

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Addams sends an introduction for Charles Beals to Straus and asks him to serve on as honorary chairman of Committee on Commerce and Industry.

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Writing on behalf of Oscar Straus, Stevens writes Addams that he has not received the bulletin she promised.

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Straus declines Addams' request to participate on the Committee on Immigrants of the National Conference of Charities and Correction because of his position as Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

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Addams thanks Straus for his son's complimentary letter about A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil.