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Jane Addams thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the note from Mr. Lee. She hopes to get to know Lee in the future. Addams is pleased with the “tremendous impulse” that the Progressive campaign has provided for social reform measures. She hopes to discuss the matter with Roosevelt at the meeting in New York on November 26.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-20
Jane Addams thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the messages he sent to the female delegates at the National Progressive Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-10
Jane Addams has received the forwarded telegram from Millicent Garrett Fawcett and is pleased with Fawcett’s commendation of the Progressive Party. She has sent the telegram to Frances Kellor for distribution to the press. Addams will be writing several articles on the party’s social economic planks drawing on her “experience with poorer people.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-24
Jane Addams encloses her comments on a telegram from Millicent Garrett Fawcett which has been distributed to the press. She believes that it is a good reply to Ida Husted Harper’s letters in the New York Times.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-26
Political handbill reflects on the effects of current labor policies on immigrants, appealing for greater protection as advocated by the Progressive Party. Addams relates stories of individual immigrants severely injured and maimed in industrial accidents.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
Jane Addams responds positively to the expression of support from Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies for the Progressive Party and the party’s stance on equal suffrage.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-26