John Adams Kingsbury Papers

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Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, August 19, 1912

Addams writes Kingsbury about a lunch with Rice and their discussion about support for the Progressive Party.

Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, December 18, 1912

Addams apologizes to Kingsbury for missing the Progressive Party's Executive Committee meeting in New York but hopes to keep in touch with the "extreme wing" of the party nonetheless.

Meetings

Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, January 6, 1913

Addams writes Kingsbury about Charles McCarthy and provides her New York schedule to facilitate a meeting with him.

Meetings Travels

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Includes material on other organizations with which Kingsbury was affiliated such as the American Council on Soviet Relations, America-Yugoslav Society of New York, American Association of the Red Cross, Milbank Memorial Fund, Progressive Party, Serbian Child Welfare Association of America, U.S. Work Projects Administration, and Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Topics include agriculture, American-Soviet and American-Yugoslav relations, astronomy, Chinese life and culture, Eastern European relief efforts, group health insurance, multiple sclerosis, mushrooms, New Deal legislation, public health in America and the Soviet Union, socialist societies, socialized medicine, travel, tuberculosis, unemployment, venereal disease, war relief, welfare, and world peace.

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Finding aid: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054

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John Adams Kingsbury Papers