Letter from Louis Edelman to Theodore Roosevelt
Subject(s): Alabama--Huntsville, Child labor, Children, Children--Employment, Mills and mill-work, Periodicals
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Dr. Louis Edelman thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his recent article inThe Outlook entitled “Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood.” Edelman shares his own experience with children working in the local mill, one as young as six years old who worked twelve hours each night for twelve cents. Edelman states children are being eaten up by the industrial mills in the South, but society wants the mills so they are not going away.
Comments and Context
Alma Whaley was a child laborer in Chattanooga, Tennessee who made a suicide pact with other children working twelve hour a day, six days a week, in a cotton mill. Dr. Louis Edelman appears to use her name to refer to all child laborers who are suffering.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-12
Creator(s)
Recipient
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Language
English
Period
(1911-1912) Progressive Party Candidate
Repository
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Page Count
1
Production Method
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Letter from Louis Edelman to Theodore Roosevelt. [December 1911]. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o74289. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Edelman, Louis, 1869-1932. Letter from Louis Edelman to Theodore Roosevelt. [Dec 1911]. Image.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. April 6, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o74289.
APA:
Edelman, Louis, 1869-1932., [1911, December]. Letter from Louis Edelman to Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o74289.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. April 6, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
APA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
