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Edmund J. James to Jane Addams, March 14, 1901

James invites Addams to speak at the American Academy of Political and Social Science's extension program for 1901-1902.

Education Lectures Requests

Social Settlement Aims, March 22, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discusses English settlement work at the Kenwood Evangelical Church.

England Lectures Settlement Movement

Education and Labor, March 24, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discussed the role of schools in preparing children for life in a speech at the Ethical Society.

Education Labor Lectures

Statement on $2.50 Weekly Wage, April 4, 1901

Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

Labor Lectures Poverty

Address to the Kindergarten Union Convention, April 13, 1901

Addams comments on the importance of kindergarten in settlement work at the close of a convention of the International Kindergarten Union.

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 25, 1901

Addams writes Smith about her lecture in Madison, Wisconsin, a trip to Springfield, Illinois, where she met the governor, a property purchase, and her trip to New Orleans.

Family Lectures Travels

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 27, 1901

Addams reports on events in New Orleans at the Methodist Missionary Conference, including attending a talk by Booker T. Washington. She also writes about changes in her travel plans and how she wishes that Smith was with her.

African-Americans Travels

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, May 19, 1901

Addams writes Ely about the recent visit of Peytr Kropotkin and her upcoming lectures.

Hull-House Visits Lectures Writing

Statement on Jewish Peddlers, June 2, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams offers sympathy to Jewish peddlers at a meeting of the Chicago Protective League. This was excerpted from a longer article about the event.

Immigrants Lectures

Address to the Chicago Institute, June 21, 1901

Addams criticizes trade schools in an address to the Chicago Institute.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Jane Addams to John H. Lathrop, July 31, 1901

Addams writes Lathrop to choose a day in which she can speak at All Souls Church.

Friends Lectures Religion

Address at the wedding of Gerard Swope and Mary Dayton Hill, August 21, 1901

Addams recounts the roles and responsibilities of marriage and love at the ceremony for two Hull-House residents.

Hull-House Residents Lectures Weddings

Speech to the Chicago Workingwomen's Association, August 22, 1901

Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.

Labor Lectures

Speech at Working Women's Association Meeting, August 22, 1901

Addams speaks on uplifting and empowering the experiences of domestic workers.

Labor Lectures Women

Address to Hull-House Woman's Club, October 9, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the evils of the sweatshop system and urges women to look for the union label when shopping for goods.

Labor Lectures

Lecture on the University Social Settlement, October 29, 1901

A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Woman's Club of Bloomington, on the work of the University Social Settlement. Addams provided a history of settlement work and the basic principles at Hull-House.

Hull-House Lectures Settlements

Ideals of Tolstoy, November 1, 1901 (summary)

Addams discusses Tolstoy's life and philosophy.

Hull-House Lectures Peace Philosophy

Lecture at the First Unitarian Church, November 2, 1901 (excerpts)

A summary of Addams' talk on Tolstoy and settlements, given at the First Unitarian Church in Minneapolis.

Labor Lectures Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Emily K. Reynolds, December 13, 1901

Addams writes Reynolds about plans for a series of lectures.

Lectures Travels

Statement on Young Couples and Housekeeping, December 27, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on Judge E. F. Dunne's statement that $25 is enough for a young couple to start housekeeping. This was taken from a longer article on the topic.

Home Economics Lectures