Mary Lynn McCree Bryan is the editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project in the department of history at Duke University, editor of the microfilm edition of the Jane Addams Papers, a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide, and a former curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Barbara Bair is the associate editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project, a historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and the author of Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans, 1880-1900.Maree de Angury has worked on the Jane Addams Papers Project for more than two decades, is a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: a Comprehensive Guide, and is an administrative manager at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

• List of Illustrations   xiiiAcknowledgments   xviiIntroduction   xxvEditorial Method   xliAbbreviations and Symbols   xlviiPART 1 Fitted for a Life of Usefulness, 1881-83Introduction   3DOCUMENTS[ca. late June 1881], from Ellen Gates Starr   4314 July 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   447 Aug. 1881, from Martha Thomas   4617 Aug. 1881, from Helen Harrington   5021 Aug. 1881, from Isaac E. Carey   5121 Aug. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   5121 Aug. 1881, from Ellen Gates Starr   5522 Aug. 1881, from Charles Caverno   5626 Aug. 1881, from John Manning Linn   5729 Aug. 1881, from T. H. Haseltine   593 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5910 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5911 Sept. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   6116 Sept. 1881, from Mary P. Ellwood   6421 [and 22] Sept. 1881, from Martha Thomas   6622 [ and 27] Sept. 1881, from Eleanor Frothingham   681 Oct. 1881, from Helen Harrington   704 Oct. 1881, from Mary Catherine Addams Linn   7126 Oct. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   7416 Nov. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8019 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8324 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   8430 Dec. 1881, from Emma L. Briggs   871 Jan. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   9311 Jan. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   977 [and 9] Feb. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   9811 Feb. 1882, from Laura A. Malburn   10012 Feb. 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   1039 Mar. 1882, from Helen Harrington   10619 Mar. 1882, to Ellen Gates Starr   10829 Mar. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   1089 Apr. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   10911 [and 12] Apr. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   11115 Apr. 1882, from Helen Harrington   11314 May 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1161 June 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   117[4 June?] [1882], from Sarah F. Anderson   1196 June 1992, from Sarah F. Anderson   1208 June 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   122[21 June] 1882, Commencement Report in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   12426 July 1883, from John Weber Addams   12929 Aug. 1882, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   1311 Sept. 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   13310 Sept. 1882, from Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   13422 Oct. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1387 Jan. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   14312 Jan. [1883], from Ellen Gates Starr   146i[ca. Feb.-Mar. 1883], from Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   14822 Apr. 1883, from Sarah F. Anderson   15224 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   15524 Apr. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1611 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1623 May 1883, from Anna P. Sill   1637 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16510 May 1883, Minutes of Special Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Board of Trustees   16722 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16923 May 1883, from Eva E. Townsend Clark   17129 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1725 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   17315 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   176[20 June] 1883, Speech to the Annual Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Alumnae Association   1762 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1783 July 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   18111 July 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18218 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18324 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1878 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18812 Aug. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18918 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   190PART 2 A Feverish Search after Culture, 1883-85Introduction   197DOCUMENTS[22 Aug. 1883], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   22927 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   23131 Aug. [and 1 Sept.] 1884[1883], to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   23510 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24316 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24630 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   2493[, 6, and 7] Oct. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2598 Oct. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   26417 [and 18?] Oct. 1883, to George Bowman Haldeman   26629 Oct. 1883, to John Weber Addams   2703 Nov. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2762 Dec. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2806 Dec. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2834 Jan. 1883[1884], to George Bowman Haldeman   28713 Jan. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   29117 Jan. 1883[1884], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   29327 Jan. 1884, to John Weber Addams   29610 Feb. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3018 Mar. 1884, to George Bowman Haldeman   3039 Mar. 1994, to Ellen Gates Starr   30626 Apr. 1884, to Sarah F. Blaisdell   3107 May 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3218 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   32622 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   33020 July 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   33517 Aug. 1884, to John Weber Addams   34117 Sept. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   34810 Oct. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   35330 Nov. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3587 Dec. 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   36120 Dec. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   36621 Feb. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   369[30(29) Mar. 1885], to Ellen Gates Starr   37519 Apr. 1885, to John Weber Addams   37628 Apr. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   38010 May 1885, to John Weber Addams   382PART 3 Social Lessons, 1885-86Introduction   387DOCUMENTS26 July 1885, from Helen Harrington   4057 Sept. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40623 Oct. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40812 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   41120 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   412[29 and 30 Nov. 1885], from Ellen Gates Starr   4143 Dec. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   4164 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4196 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   4219 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   42226 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4243 Jan. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   425Jan. 1885[1886], Essay in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   4267 Feb. 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   43310 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43617 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43928 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4417 Mar. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   444[10 and 13 Mar.] 1886, from Ellen Gates Starr   44711 Apr. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   45117 July 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   45625 July 1886, from Helen Harrington   4596 Aug. 1886, from George Bowman Haldeman   46319 Aug. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4666 Oct. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   46718 Oct. 1886, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   4684 Nov. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   47228 Dec. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   475PART 4 Discovering a Useful Way, 1887-88Introduction   479DOCUMENTS9 Feb. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5193 Mar. 1887, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   5213 Apr. 1887, to Ellen Gates Starr   5235 July 1887, to George Bowman Haldeman   52630 Sept. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5288 Oct. 1887, Speech to the Rockford Female Seminary Reunion Association   53215 Nov. 1887, List of Financial Assets Owned by Jane Addams   53617 Nov. 1887, from Maria G. Nutting   53927 Dec. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5427 Jan. 1888, to Flora Z. Guiteau   54626 Jan. 1888, to Laura A. Malbourne[Malburn]   55428 Jan. 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   55731 Jan. 1888, from John Addams Linn   56231 Jan. 1888, from John Manning Linn and Mary Catherine Addams Linn   56412 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   56616 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57323 Feb. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   5754 [and 5] Mar. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57711 [and 14] Mar. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   57822 Mar. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5856 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   58814 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   59425 [and 28] Apr. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   60012 May 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   60821 May 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   6159 June 1888, to George Bowman Haldeman   61814 June 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   6204 July 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   625Addams Family Genealogical Chart   633Bibliography   637Index   689

"The papers are wisely chosen and elegantly arranged in an engaging narrative that will captivate and satisfy readers and scholars."--Journal of Illinois History "The biographical essays are engaging and accessible; the documents themselves are full of interest.  Those who wish to delve into the endnotes' thickets of detail will be richly rewarded with concrete information and with leads for further research. . . . I read these volumes with awe."--Peace & Change "This important and intriguing work will interest all of those who are fascinated by Jane Addams, as well as general readers interested in life in the 1880s, upper-middle-class family life, European travel, and medical education for women."--Allen F. Davis, author of American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams"A fascinating collection, illuminating Jane Addams's transition to an independent adult life dedicated to social reform. The book will be indispensable not only for scholars, but also for teachers and students interested in women's education and for young women on the brink of deciding their own futures."--Gwendolyn Mink, author of Welfare’s End "Informed by the most up-to-date historiography, this second volume of Jane Addams's letters examines a complicated period of apprenticeship and the influences and desires that made Addams such a towering figure. Scholars of women's history and gender will find this volume indispensable. It will also appeal to those interested in the emergence of political and social reform, religious secularism, women's education, and the inner lives, choices, and attitudes of a changing Victorian middle class."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

Mary Lynn McCree Bryan is the editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project in the department of history at Duke University, editor of the microfilm edition of the Jane Addams Papers, a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide, and a former curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Barbara Bair is the associate editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project, a historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and the author of Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans, 1880-1900.Maree de Angury has worked on the Jane Addams Papers Project for more than two decades, is a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: a Comprehensive Guide, and is an administrative manager at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

• List of Illustrations   xiiiAcknowledgments   xviiIntroduction   xxvEditorial Method   xliAbbreviations and Symbols   xlviiPART 1 Fitted for a Life of Usefulness, 1881-83Introduction   3DOCUMENTS[ca. late June 1881], from Ellen Gates Starr   4314 July 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   447 Aug. 1881, from Martha Thomas   4617 Aug. 1881, from Helen Harrington   5021 Aug. 1881, from Isaac E. Carey   5121 Aug. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   5121 Aug. 1881, from Ellen Gates Starr   5522 Aug. 1881, from Charles Caverno   5626 Aug. 1881, from John Manning Linn   5729 Aug. 1881, from T. H. Haseltine   593 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5910 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5911 Sept. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   6116 Sept. 1881, from Mary P. Ellwood   6421 [and 22] Sept. 1881, from Martha Thomas   6622 [ and 27] Sept. 1881, from Eleanor Frothingham   681 Oct. 1881, from Helen Harrington   704 Oct. 1881, from Mary Catherine Addams Linn   7126 Oct. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   7416 Nov. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8019 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8324 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   8430 Dec. 1881, from Emma L. Briggs   871 Jan. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   9311 Jan. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   977 [and 9] Feb. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   9811 Feb. 1882, from Laura A. Malburn   10012 Feb. 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   1039 Mar. 1882, from Helen Harrington   10619 Mar. 1882, to Ellen Gates Starr   10829 Mar. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   1089 Apr. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   10911 [and 12] Apr. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   11115 Apr. 1882, from Helen Harrington   11314 May 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1161 June 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   117[4 June?] [1882], from Sarah F. Anderson   1196 June 1992, from Sarah F. Anderson   1208 June 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   122[21 June] 1882, Commencement Report in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   12426 July 1883, from John Weber Addams   12929 Aug. 1882, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   1311 Sept. 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   13310 Sept. 1882, from Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   13422 Oct. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1387 Jan. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   14312 Jan. [1883], from Ellen Gates Starr   146i[ca. Feb.-Mar. 1883], from Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   14822 Apr. 1883, from Sarah F. Anderson   15224 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   15524 Apr. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1611 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1623 May 1883, from Anna P. Sill   1637 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16510 May 1883, Minutes of Special Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Board of Trustees   16722 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16923 May 1883, from Eva E. Townsend Clark   17129 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1725 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   17315 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   176[20 June] 1883, Speech to the Annual Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Alumnae Association   1762 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1783 July 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   18111 July 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18218 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18324 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1878 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18812 Aug. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18918 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   190PART 2 A Feverish Search after Culture, 1883-85Introduction   197DOCUMENTS[22 Aug. 1883], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   22927 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   23131 Aug. [and 1 Sept.] 1884[1883], to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   23510 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24316 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24630 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   2493[, 6, and 7] Oct. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2598 Oct. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   26417 [and 18?] Oct. 1883, to George Bowman Haldeman   26629 Oct. 1883, to John Weber Addams   2703 Nov. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2762 Dec. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2806 Dec. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2834 Jan. 1883[1884], to George Bowman Haldeman   28713 Jan. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   29117 Jan. 1883[1884], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   29327 Jan. 1884, to John Weber Addams   29610 Feb. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3018 Mar. 1884, to George Bowman Haldeman   3039 Mar. 1994, to Ellen Gates Starr   30626 Apr. 1884, to Sarah F. Blaisdell   3107 May 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3218 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   32622 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   33020 July 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   33517 Aug. 1884, to John Weber Addams   34117 Sept. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   34810 Oct. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   35330 Nov. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3587 Dec. 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   36120 Dec. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   36621 Feb. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   369[30(29) Mar. 1885], to Ellen Gates Starr   37519 Apr. 1885, to John Weber Addams   37628 Apr. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   38010 May 1885, to John Weber Addams   382PART 3 Social Lessons, 1885-86Introduction   387DOCUMENTS26 July 1885, from Helen Harrington   4057 Sept. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40623 Oct. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40812 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   41120 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   412[29 and 30 Nov. 1885], from Ellen Gates Starr   4143 Dec. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   4164 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4196 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   4219 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   42226 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4243 Jan. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   425Jan. 1885[1886], Essay in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   4267 Feb. 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   43310 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43617 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43928 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4417 Mar. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   444[10 and 13 Mar.] 1886, from Ellen Gates Starr   44711 Apr. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   45117 July 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   45625 July 1886, from Helen Harrington   4596 Aug. 1886, from George Bowman Haldeman   46319 Aug. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4666 Oct. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   46718 Oct. 1886, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   4684 Nov. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   47228 Dec. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   475PART 4 Discovering a Useful Way, 1887-88Introduction   479DOCUMENTS9 Feb. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5193 Mar. 1887, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   5213 Apr. 1887, to Ellen Gates Starr   5235 July 1887, to George Bowman Haldeman   52630 Sept. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5288 Oct. 1887, Speech to the Rockford Female Seminary Reunion Association   53215 Nov. 1887, List of Financial Assets Owned by Jane Addams   53617 Nov. 1887, from Maria G. Nutting   53927 Dec. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5427 Jan. 1888, to Flora Z. Guiteau   54626 Jan. 1888, to Laura A. Malbourne[Malburn]   55428 Jan. 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   55731 Jan. 1888, from John Addams Linn   56231 Jan. 1888, from John Manning Linn and Mary Catherine Addams Linn   56412 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   56616 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57323 Feb. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   5754 [and 5] Mar. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57711 [and 14] Mar. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   57822 Mar. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5856 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   58814 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   59425 [and 28] Apr. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   60012 May 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   60821 May 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   6159 June 1888, to George Bowman Haldeman   61814 June 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   6204 July 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   625Addams Family Genealogical Chart   633Bibliography   637Index   689

"The papers are wisely chosen and elegantly arranged in an engaging narrative that will captivate and satisfy readers and scholars."--Journal of Illinois History "The biographical essays are engaging and accessible; the documents themselves are full of interest.  Those who wish to delve into the endnotes' thickets of detail will be richly rewarded with concrete information and with leads for further research. . . . I read these volumes with awe."--Peace & Change "This important and intriguing work will interest all of those who are fascinated by Jane Addams, as well as general readers interested in life in the 1880s, upper-middle-class family life, European travel, and medical education for women."--Allen F. Davis, author of American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams"A fascinating collection, illuminating Jane Addams's transition to an independent adult life dedicated to social reform. The book will be indispensable not only for scholars, but also for teachers and students interested in women's education and for young women on the brink of deciding their own futures."--Gwendolyn Mink, author of Welfare’s End "Informed by the most up-to-date historiography, this second volume of Jane Addams's letters examines a complicated period of apprenticeship and the influences and desires that made Addams such a towering figure. Scholars of women's history and gender will find this volume indispensable. It will also appeal to those interested in the emergence of political and social reform, religious secularism, women's education, and the inner lives, choices, and attitudes of a changing Victorian middle class."--Regina Morantz-Sanchez, author of Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn

Mary Lynn McCree Bryan is the editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project in the department of history at Duke University, editor of the microfilm edition of the Jane Addams Papers, a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide, and a former curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Barbara Bair is the associate editor of The Jane Addams Papers Project, a historian in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, and the author of Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans, 1880-1900.Maree de Angury has worked on the Jane Addams Papers Project for more than two decades, is a coeditor of The Jane Addams Papers: a Comprehensive Guide, and is an administrative manager at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

• List of Illustrations   xiiiAcknowledgments   xviiIntroduction   xxvEditorial Method   xliAbbreviations and Symbols   xlviiPART 1 Fitted for a Life of Usefulness, 1881-83Introduction   3DOCUMENTS[ca. late June 1881], from Ellen Gates Starr   4314 July 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   447 Aug. 1881, from Martha Thomas   4617 Aug. 1881, from Helen Harrington   5021 Aug. 1881, from Isaac E. Carey   5121 Aug. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   5121 Aug. 1881, from Ellen Gates Starr   5522 Aug. 1881, from Charles Caverno   5626 Aug. 1881, from John Manning Linn   5729 Aug. 1881, from T. H. Haseltine   593 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5910 Sept. 1881, to Ellen Gates Starr   5911 Sept. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   6116 Sept. 1881, from Mary P. Ellwood   6421 [and 22] Sept. 1881, from Martha Thomas   6622 [ and 27] Sept. 1881, from Eleanor Frothingham   681 Oct. 1881, from Helen Harrington   704 Oct. 1881, from Mary Catherine Addams Linn   7126 Oct. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   7416 Nov. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8019 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Anderson   8324 Dec. 1881, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   8430 Dec. 1881, from Emma L. Briggs   871 Jan. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   9311 Jan. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   977 [and 9] Feb. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   9811 Feb. 1882, from Laura A. Malburn   10012 Feb. 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   1039 Mar. 1882, from Helen Harrington   10619 Mar. 1882, to Ellen Gates Starr   10829 Mar. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   1089 Apr. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   10911 [and 12] Apr. 1882, from Sarah F. Anderson   11115 Apr. 1882, from Helen Harrington   11314 May 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1161 June 1882, from George Bowman Haldeman   117[4 June?] [1882], from Sarah F. Anderson   1196 June 1992, from Sarah F. Anderson   1208 June 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   122[21 June] 1882, Commencement Report in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   12426 July 1883, from John Weber Addams   12929 Aug. 1882, from Sarah F. Blaisdell   1311 Sept. 1882, from Mary P. Ellwood   13310 Sept. 1882, from Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   13422 Oct. 1882, from Ellen Gates Starr   1387 Jan. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   14312 Jan. [1883], from Ellen Gates Starr   146i[ca. Feb.-Mar. 1883], from Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   14822 Apr. 1883, from Sarah F. Anderson   15224 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   15524 Apr. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   16025 Apr. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1611 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1623 May 1883, from Anna P. Sill   1637 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16510 May 1883, Minutes of Special Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Board of Trustees   16722 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   16923 May 1883, from Eva E. Townsend Clark   17129 May 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1725 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   17315 June 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   176[20 June] 1883, Speech to the Annual Meeting of the Rockford Female Seminary Alumnae Association   1762 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1783 July 1883, from Ellen Gates Starr   18111 July 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18218 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18324 July 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   1878 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   18812 Aug. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   18918 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   190PART 2 A Feverish Search after Culture, 1883-85Introduction   197DOCUMENTS[22 Aug. 1883], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   22927 Aug. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   23131 Aug. [and 1 Sept.] 1884[1883], to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   23510 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24316 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   24630 Sept. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   2493[, 6, and 7] Oct. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2598 Oct. 1883, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   26417 [and 18?] Oct. 1883, to George Bowman Haldeman   26629 Oct. 1883, to John Weber Addams   2703 Nov. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2762 Dec. 1883, to Ellen Gates Starr   2806 Dec. 1883, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   2834 Jan. 1883[1884], to George Bowman Haldeman   28713 Jan. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   29117 Jan. 1883[1884], to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   29327 Jan. 1884, to John Weber Addams   29610 Feb. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3018 Mar. 1884, to George Bowman Haldeman   3039 Mar. 1994, to Ellen Gates Starr   30626 Apr. 1884, to Sarah F. Blaisdell   3107 May 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3218 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   32622 June 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   33020 July 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   33517 Aug. 1884, to John Weber Addams   34117 Sept. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   34810 Oct. 1884, to Mary Catherine Addams Linn   35330 Nov. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   3587 Dec. 1884, to Ellen Gates Starr   36120 Dec. 1884, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   36621 Feb. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   369[30(29) Mar. 1885], to Ellen Gates Starr   37519 Apr. 1885, to John Weber Addams   37628 Apr. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   38010 May 1885, to John Weber Addams   382PART 3 Social Lessons, 1885-86Introduction   387DOCUMENTS26 July 1885, from Helen Harrington   4057 Sept. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40623 Oct. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   40812 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   41120 Nov. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   412[29 and 30 Nov. 1885], from Ellen Gates Starr   4143 Dec. 1885, from Ellen Gates Starr   4164 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4196 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   4219 Dec. 1885, to Ellen Gates Starr   42226 Dec. 1885, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4243 Jan. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   425Jan. 1885[1886], Essay in the Rockford Seminary Magazine   4267 Feb. 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   43310 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43617 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   43928 Feb. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4417 Mar. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   444[10 and 13 Mar.] 1886, from Ellen Gates Starr   44711 Apr. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   45117 July 1886, to Ellen Gates Starr   45625 July 1886, from Helen Harrington   4596 Aug. 1886, from George Bowman Haldeman   46319 Aug. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   4666 Oct. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   46718 Oct. 1886, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   4684 Nov. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   47228 Dec. 1886, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   475PART 4 Discovering a Useful Way, 1887-88Introduction   479DOCUMENTS9 Feb. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5193 Mar. 1887, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   5213 Apr. 1887, to Ellen Gates Starr   5235 July 1887, to George Bowman Haldeman   52630 Sept. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5288 Oct. 1887, Speech to the Rockford Female Seminary Reunion Association   53215 Nov. 1887, List of Financial Assets Owned by Jane Addams   53617 Nov. 1887, from Maria G. Nutting   53927 Dec. 1887, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5427 Jan. 1888, to Flora Z. Guiteau   54626 Jan. 1888, to Laura A. Malbourne[Malburn]   55428 Jan. 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   55731 Jan. 1888, from John Addams Linn   56231 Jan. 1888, from John Manning Linn and Mary Catherine Addams Linn   56412 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   56616 Feb. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57323 Feb. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams   5754 [and 5] Mar. 1888, Ellen Gates Starr to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   57711 [and 14] Mar. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   57822 Mar. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   5856 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   58814 Apr. 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   59425 [and 28] Apr. 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   60012 May 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   60821 May 1888, to Sarah Weber Addams   6159 June 1888, to George Bowman Haldeman   61814 June 1888, to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman   6204 July 1888, to Laura Shoemaker Addams   625Addams Family Genealogical Chart   633Bibliography   637Index   689

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