William Allen White Papers

Description

Chiefly corrrespondence relating to White's career as a newspaper editor, politician, and author; and to his personal life. Documents his work as editor of the Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas; judge with the Book-of-the-Month Club; and regent of Kansas State University. Also documents his activities with the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subjects include Kansas state and national politics, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign as Progressive Party nominee in the 1912 presidential campaign, White's campaign for governor of Kansas in 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan.

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Cleared

Alternative Title

William Allen White Papers

Documents in this collection

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Addams declines White's invitation to speak for the Progressive Party in Kansas.

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Ford informs White that Addams cannot accept his invitation to speak in Topeka, Kansas.

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White invites Addams to make speeches in Kansas and Missouri for woman suffrage and for the Progressive Party.

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Addams tells White she cannot change her speaking schedule.

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Addams invites White to visit before she leaves the region.

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Addams thanks White for his hospitality for her talk at his wife's City Club event.

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Addams sends White a letter from George Herron about the troubles of the League of Nations and asks for his opinion of the plan.

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Addams tells White how she enjoyed his biography of Woodrow Wilson and sends him a copy ofPeace and Bread in Time of War, marking her chapter on Wilson.