Browse · Jane Addams Digital Edition

A Christmas Message for 1923, December 1923

Addams argues for peace and international understanding to help bring Europe out of the devastation of war.

China Disarmament Europe Food Shortages Holidays Peace Relief Efforts Religion War

A Christmas Message for 1923, December 1923

Addams argues for peace and international understanding to help bring Europe out of the devastation of war.

China Disarmament Europe Food Shortages Holidays Peace Relief Efforts Religion War

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (summary)

Addams argues that the United States should offer economic and humanitarian aid to starving Europe.

Food Shortages Foreign Policy League of Nations Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to Trinity College, March 30, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams exhorts Americans to help starving Europeans and discusses her experience there.

Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

Lecture to the Alabama Conference of Social Workers, March 26, 1922 (excerpt)

Addams appeals for support for starving children in Europe.

Lectures Relief Efforts

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, ca. March 20, 1922 (fragment)

Balch tells Addams about donations for relief and WILPF's summer school.

Education Finances Peace Relief Efforts

Speech to the Decatur City Club, February 15, 1922

Addams spoke on America's role in international relief efforts and about the work done at Hull House.

Europe Famine Lectures Relief Efforts United States

Speech to the Waterloo Business Women's Club, January 16, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks about conditions in Europe, relief efforts and the role of the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Peace Women

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, February 8, 1924

Thomas thanks Addams for sending a letter from Bernhart Holst.

Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to the Chicago Tribune, December 1921 (summary)

The Tribune retracts a statement it published based on Addams's claim that she was misquoted.

Journalism Relief Efforts

Speech to the College Club, November 25, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams urges the public to share its opinions on the Washington Naval Conference and argues for American involvement in international affairs.

Disarmament Foreign Policy Lectures Peace Relief Efforts

Statement on Marianne Hainisch, October 11, 1921

Addams and Bacon discuss Marianna Haenisch and her charitable work in Vienna and appeal to American women to help Austrian women.

Austria Peace Praise Relief Efforts Requests Travels

Interview with the Guardian, September 15, 1921

Addams discusses her recent activities, the International Congress of Women and her hope that America joins the League of Nations.

Austria Internationalism League of Nations Peace Women

Branislawa Oleski Lamprecht de Petschenko to Jane Addams, September 10, 1924

Lamprecht de Petschenko asks Addams to help raise money to keep the Russian Pedagogium afloat.

Education Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Speech to the Boston League of Women Voters, April 12, 1921 (Excerpt)

Addams spoke at a luncheon about the conditions in Europe after the war, especially the plight of children.

Child Welfare Lectures Relief Efforts

Maxim Gorky to Jane Addams, August 1922

Gorky tells Addams about the Russian famine.

Food Shortages Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 28, 1924

Wald tells Addams that the New York WILPF committee seems optimistic about raising funds and notes the German peace activists are pleasant.

Children Conferences Germany Peace Philanthropy

Feed the World and Have a League of Nations, February 19, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams argued that America needs to offer humanitarian help to Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Health Peace Relief Efforts

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 18, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

Mary Rozet Smith to Adena Miller Rich, March 28, 1920

Smith tells Rich that she has not been able to raise funds for Belgian orphans.

Belgium Children Relief Efforts Travels

Alice Clark to Jane Addams, March 23, 1920

Clark sends Addams updates on relief work in Vienna and Germany.

Austria Child Welfare Germany Relief Efforts

Reinhardt Rahr to Jane Addams, March 22, 1920

Rahr sends Addams a critical letter (not found) regarding relief work for Austrian and German children, and asks her opinion.

Criticism Germany Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, March 21, 1920

Addams sends Thomas donations for European relief she was given at a meeting.

Philanthropy Relief Efforts

Yury Vladimirovich Lomonosoff to Raïssa Rosen Lomonosoff, March 20, 1920

Lomonosoff writes to his wife about his health and asks her to give Addams an appeal to aid Russian children.

Health Relief Efforts Requests Soviet Union

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 25, 1924

Thomas tells Addams he would be happy to schedule a talk for her in March and discusses work in Germany.

Germany Health Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Wilbur Kelsey Thomas, July 24, 1922

Addams briefly discusses Russian relief efforts with Thomas.

Relief Efforts Russia

William Fisher Byron to Jane Addams, July 18, 1922

Byron asks Addams to endorse a check for Russian relief.

Relief Efforts

Feed the World and Save the League, November 21, 1920 (summary)

Addams spoke to the Ethical Culture Society, urging support for relief efforts and for the League of Nations.

Internationalism League of Nations Lectures Relief Efforts

Oswald Garrison Villard to Jane Addams, March 15, 1920

Villard writes to Addams regarding Siberian prisoners of war and German food conditions.

Peace Prisoners of War Soviet Union

Jane Addams to Florence Sachs Rauh, ca. July 1920

Addams instructs Rauh to send the check to Charles Hutchinson.

Relief Efforts

275 results