Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)

Theodore Roosevelt tells Jane Addams that he is “in a quandary.” Roosevelt received correspondence from someone claiming to be a soldier in need of assistance. In order to verify this, Roosevelt asks Addams to please read the letter and assess it for herself. Should she agree with his concern, he would like her to send a trusted person to check on this man and verify his situation and whether he was part of Roosevelt’s regiment. If he is indeed in need, he would like her to let him know so he can proceed with discharging the man and arranging for some money to assist him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt does not know if he is more proud of what Secretary of State Elihu Root did in New York or what Secretary of War Taft did in Idaho. He describes some of the Democratic competition in New York. He proposes that the Democratic Party should dissolve because it has been shamed in New York and Idaho. Roosevelt sometimes wishes “I was not in the White House and could be on the stage and speak frankly!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

J. Ellen Foster encloses an article from a Chicago paper. She knows Mary McDowell, who was trained at Hull House by Jane Addams and is now in charge of the University of Chicago Settlement at the stock yards.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-01

Creator(s)

Foster, J. Ellen (Judith Ellen), 1840-

Louise W. Knight chronicles the friendship between Jane Addams and Theodore Roosevelt which reached its apex during the 1912 Progressive Party convention in Chicago and which was broken by the outbreak of World War I and Addams’s adoption of a pacifist stance. Knight focuses on Addams’s drive to achieve women’s suffrage across the United States, and not just in selected states, and she examines Addams’s embrace of the Progressive Party as the best vehicle to promote women’s suffrage. Knight highlights Addams’s prominent role at the Progressive Party convention of 1912 and her extensive campaigning for both Roosevelt and votes for women. Knight reveals that Roosevelt never fully embraced Addams’s view of women’s suffrage and that he tried unsuccessfully to gain her endorsement for the Republican presidential nominee in 1916.

A photograph of Knight, two of Addams, and one of Roosevelt on the campaign trail supplement the text along with a political cartoon and two handbills from the 1912 campaign.