Letter Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 1913-03-19

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                    the English are doing in reclaiming 
                    the land give me new thoughts on
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            <salute> Always devotedly yours</salute>
            
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Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 19 March 1913: A TEI Edition Abbott/Addams Letter Digitization Project Emily Benes Caitlin Henry Seolha Lee Rosamond Thalken the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS)
360 Huntington Avenue Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115
27 April 2018

This file is free to download, share, or repurpose for educational and project development purposes.

 Jane Addams Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, 19 March 1913 March 19, 1913 Edith and Grace Abbott, Papers (MS 129). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. view page image(s) CATARACT HOTEL ASSOUAN THE UPPER EGYPT HOTELS COY ASSOUAN CATARACT HOTE SAVOY HOTEL GRAND HOTEL ASSOUAN LUXOR LUXOR WINTER PALACE LUXOR HOTEL KARNAK HOTEL March 19" 1913 My dear Miss Abbott

We are perfectly entranced with Upper Egypt. It isn't too warm and it is the most picturesque place in the world. I am sending you the two old methods of Miss Johnson which of course you know, but these wonderful things the English are doing in reclaiming the land give me new thoughts on the Imperialistic schemes in spite of the Indians which for your use and which I read on the way with the purest interest.

Will you please excuse this penciled note, and believe me

Always devotedly yours Jane Addams

We are delayed here for several days any how of Mary's. but it an interesting spot to see with its .

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Edith Abbott

Edith Abbott was born on September 26, 1876 in Grand Island, Nebraska, into a politically and socially active Nebraskan family. After receiving a degree at the University of Nebraska, Edith attended the University of Chicago on a fellowship to study political economy. In 1905, she obtained her doctoral degree and spent multiple years at the University College London studying social economics and welfare. She returned to the United States to continue a successful career of teaching and researching social welfare alongside Grace Abbott, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and other women at Jane Addams’ Hull House. Abbott’s work focused on social statistics as a methodology to look critically at women’s rights, child labor, immigration, and public welfare. She was promoted to Dean of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration in 1924, and held that position until retiring in 1942.

Trip to Upper Egypt

On February 18, 1913, Jane Addams went on a trip to Egypt, and then to Palestine and Italy, with Mary Rozet Smith, which was a birthday gift from Louise Bowen and Mary Smith. Although it was going to be only four-month trip, it stirred Chicago, gathering over 1,200 people at a farewell dinner for her. Graham Taylor wrote in the Chicago Daily News, “No one could be more missed from Chicago than she.” Her travels in Egypt deeply impressed her. During the trip she penned an essay, “The Unexpected Reactions of a Traveler in Egypt” later published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1914, and a book, The Long Road of Woman’s Memory (1916) in which she contemplates on humanism, memory, death and afterlife.

Jane Addams

Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois in a wealthy family. She received the bachelor's degree from Rockford College for Women in 1882. She studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, but completed only one year due to her poor health. Inspired from her visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in London, she co-founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 to help immigrants in Chicago. Addams was actively engaged in woman suffrage and international peace movement serving as an officer in the National American Woman's Suffrage Association and leading organizations such as Women's Peace Party, the International Congress of Women and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 71. Addams died of cancer in 1935.

Mary Rozet Smith

Mary Rozet Smith was born on December 23, 1868 in Chicago, Illinois, to wealthy parents who gave her the fortune to be the benefactor and trustee of Hull House. She began to volunteer at Hull House around 1889, teaching in the kindergarten. Although she was never a resident at the settlement house, she engaged deeply in her work at the House, managing the nursery and clubs and especially looking after things related to children. Her father, Mary Charles Mather Smith, financed the opening of The Children’s Building at Hull House. Smith’s philanthropy reached out beyond Hull House to other settlement houses in Chicago, and she was involved with various other organizations. As Jane Addams’s lifelong companion, Smith took care of Addams who often fell ill. On February 22, 1934, Smith died from pneumonia at the age of 65.

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Jane Addams to Edith Abbott 19 March 1913: A TEI Edition Abbott/Addams Letter Digitization Project Emily Benes Caitlin Henry Seolha Lee Rosamond Thalken the TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS)
360 Huntington Avenue Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115
27 April 2018

This file is free to download, share, or repurpose for educational and project development purposes.

 Jane Addams Jane Addams to Edith Abbott, 19 March 1913 March 19, 1913 Edith and Grace Abbott, Papers (MS 129). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Jane Addams Edith Abbott CATARACT HOTEL ASSOUAN THE UPPER EGYPT HOTELS COY ASSOUAN CATARACT HOTE SAVOY HOTEL GRAND HOTEL ASSOUAN LUXOR LUXOR WINTER PALACE LUXOR HOTEL KARNAK HOTEL March 19" 1913 My dear Miss Abbott

We are perfectly entranced with Upper Egypt. It isn't too warm and it is the most picturesque place in the world. I am sending you the two old methods of Miss Johnson which of course you know, but these wonderful things the English are doing in reclaiming the land give me new thoughts on the Imperialistic schemes in spite of the Indians which for your use and which I read on the way with the purest interest.

Will you please excuse this penciled note, and believe me

Always devotedly yours Jane Addams

We are delayed here for several days any how of Mary's. but it an interesting spot to see with its .