Charity

Judge Ben B. Lindsey raises several questions that Colorado Attorney General Benmamin Griffith did not address in his recent opinion on the right of the humane society to an appropriation by the state legislature. The present society is a private entity, and threatened to abandon its duty when its funding was questioned. Lindsey hopes the enterprise will be put under a board of directors answerable to the public.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-24

Pamphlet describing the work done by Mission to Lepers in India and the East, a charity founded in 1874. The Mission to Lepers emphasizes the need for “the provision of food, shelter, medical relief, and Christian teaching” of those suffering from leprosy as “surely a part of the white man’s burden” at their asylums, hospitals, and homes in India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Japan, Korea, Sumatra, and the Philippine Islands. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06

Walter Finch Price recently visited C. Wilfred Bourne’s orphanage, and was pleased to see the many improvements that have been made. He regrets that Bourne suffers from a lack of funds, and is certain that if the public knew more of Bourne’s good work at the Golden Gate Orphanage & Farm, they would contribute significant amounts to its continuation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-27

Creator(s)

Price, Walter Fitch, 1859-1946

In an open letter to the members of the Camp Fire Club of America, William T. Hornaday suggests that the club’s membership has not donated enough time or money toward the preservation of wildlife in spite of the stated goals of the club. The club’s Committee on Game Protective Legislation and Preserves requires at least $2,000 a year from the club to operate effectively, which cannot be obtained by occasional donation drives. Hornaday has proposed a change in the club’s bylaws to increase membership dues in order to support the club’s conservation work, and asks that the recipient vote to ratify it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-01

On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou thanks Ella I. Scott for what she was able to do for the case of Katherine Kinsella, and hopes that it will be possible for the employment bureau Scott works for to help Kinsella’s husband, Bartholomew J. Kinsalla, find work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-06

An article about British actor William Faversham recounts an incident in his career when he was in financial distress. While taking a walk through Central Park, he was approached by an elderly man and handed an envelope. The envelope contained a check for 100 dollars and a note explaining that the man’s son had been befriended by a British soldier stationed at Manchester before he died. The monetary gift was the tenth the elderly man had given away since it may have been Faversham who befriended his son. Another article discusses Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropic gifts to libraries. Many of the institutions which received his gifts have been suffering diminished attendance, and local businesses have been petitioning to use the buildings for other things. Carnegie is reported to have refused all requests.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09

On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb informs Henry B. F. Macfarland that she would be pleased to renew her subscription to supporting the work of the international young Men’s Christian Associations, and encloses a $5 check for that purpose.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-02

On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb sends Albert H. Hutchinson a donation of $25 to help support the work of the Roosevelt Boys’ Club. He asks Hutchinson to not make the donation public, as Roosevelt would then receive a large number of requests for similar donations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-05

California state senator Walter Fitch Price suggests that it would be good for the “charitably inclined” to make donations to lift the debts of the Golden Gate Orphanage and Industrial Farm.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-23

This note records that $100 of the Vanderbilt fund went to the “Neighborhood House,” which is a social settlement under the auspices of Associated Charities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907

President Roosevelt has contributed his dollar to Republican National Congressional Committee, responding to an initiative from Chairman J. S. Sherman to help raise funds for the Committee. Attached to the newspaper article is a pre-addressed envelope for sending in donations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-01

Margaret Sanger discusses birth control in terms of several issues including infant mortality, population growth through fertility and immigration, unemployment, charity, abortion, and sterilization. She presents a great number of statistics and research. Sanger also states that birth control is an important topic that is not discussed as it should be. When former President Roosevelt called the first White House Conference in 1912, he addressed these issues but did not discuss how birth control was a remedy to these problems. The two following White House Conferences in 1929 and 1930 did not discuss birth control either.

Collection

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Creation Date

1938-03-03

Theodore Roosevelt provides a letter of introduction for Hendrika Van Der Flier who is trying to raise support for the Belgian refugees in Holland. Roosevelt commends the work she is doing and encourages U. S. Grant to show her appropriate courtesy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-29

In this vignette cartoon, Uncle Sam stands at the center placing money in a box labeled, “To Save the Heathen of Foreign Lands.” Around him are vignettes showing American pastimes of pigeon shooting, cockfighting, boxing, and turkey-grabbing, as well as a lynching. Caption: And yet Uncle Sam is always giving money to “save the heathen.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-09-08

A group of wealthy citizens exit Trinity Church on Wall Street, New York City, with poor persons huddled on the street on both sides, and tenement housing in the background. The inscription over the door reads “He that Giveth to the Poor Lendeth to the Lord.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-09

Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland are pilgrims on a journey through a rugged Middle Eastern landscape. Leading the way is Hayes, holding a paper that states “Patronage to Reward – The Returning Board” and carrying a canteen of “Cold Water.” Behind Hayes is Arthur who is looking back at Cleveland, with a donkey, who has stopped to help a man labeled “Civil Service” who has fainted from lack of water.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-03-18

Print shows an oversized British Lion wearing boxing gloves labeled “Army” and “Navy,” standing over its most recent victim labeled “Egyptian.” Trailing off to the left are other victims labeled “Ashantee, Afghan, Boer, [and] Zulu.” Standing on the right is a diminutive Irishman pulling on boxing gloves labeled “Fenian.” Caption: “It is painful to be obliged to use force against the weak.” –Earl Granville in House of Lords.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-07-19

A female figure labeled “Charity” holds a bouquet of flowers and stands next to a young boy with crutches and a bandaged foot. Puck, holding a lithographic pen, gestures toward viewers to donate to a worthy cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-12-24

At a costume ball, a band of newspaper editors labeled “Herald, Sun, Staats-Zeitung, World, Times, [and] Evening Post” is conducted by Puck. Among those present at the ball are James Gillespie Blaine, Whitelaw Reid, William Maxwell Evarts, Roscoe Conkling, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and John Kelly.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-01-28

Print shows three fashionably dressed women helping a drunken man on the sidewalk, one holds a paper that states “Total Abstinence Pledge – Sign and Be Saved”; a pathway leads toward the “Drunkard’s Nursery and Palatial Asylum”. Behind them, up the sidewalk, a woman carrying an infant is turned away from the “Woman’s Home” where a window is labeled “Charity”. A young bootblack gestures toward her.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1881-09-21