Charles E. Merriam Papers

Comments

Documents in this collection

Charles E. Merriam to Jane Addams, February 11, 1914

Merriam sends Addams a copy of an ordinance to create a Department of Public Welfare in Chicago and invites her to join a conference on it.

Politics Public Works Requests

Charles Edward Merriam, Jr. to Jane Addams, December 16, 1925

Merriam asks Addams to help a doctoral student write a thesis on her personality and career.

Biography Requests

Charles Edward Merriam, Jr. to Jane Addams, December 16, 1925

Merriam asks Addams to assist Margaret Dunn who is working on a dissertation studying American leaders.

Education Requests

Jane Addams to Charles Edward Merriam, December 17, 1925

Addams tells Merriam that she will help Margaret Dunn with her thesis.

Education Requests

Description

Charles E. Merriam, professor of Political Science and politician. Candidate for mayor of Chicago, 1911 and 1919. Founder, Social Science Research Council, 1924. Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts; class notes Merriam took as a student; memoranda; election campaign material; minutes; reports; scholarly and political speeches; articles; diaries; book reviews; degrees; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. Materials record Merriam's influence as academic and politician and his vision of national policy-making and social reform, the first fifty years of the University of Chicago, and early twentieth-century Chicago politics.

Rights

Cleared

Source

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.MERRIAMCE

Alternative Title

Charles E. Merriam Papers