URGING CREATION OF U.S. CHILDREN’S BUREAU
36
●
ADDAMS, JANE.Typed Letter Signed, to Walter I. Smith, appealing for support of
a pending bill in Congress that proposes a Federal Children’s Bureau. 1 page, 8vo, “Hull-
House” stationery, pale blue paper; ink received stamp at lower right (not affecting
signature), horizontal folds.
Chicago, 25 November 1909
[150/250]
“
. . . [F]our-fifths of all the arrests in the criminal courts of Chicago are of boys between the
ages of 15 and 25, of whom the large majority are under 19. This is so menacing that we
should like to know whether the same condition is met in other American cities . . . .The pro-
posed Children’s Bureau could collect and distribute the very sort of information most valuable
to [those] . . . connected with the lives of city children.”
37
●
(ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 25 items Signed, or Signed and
Inscribed, by 19th-century Britons, including 6 ALsS and many clipped Signatures. Most
mounted, 2-3 to a page on rectos only, few laid in. Square 8vo,
1
/
2
leather, markedly worn.
SOLD AS IS
.
Np, nd
[200/300]
Clipped signatures: Charles Dickens * Robert Browning * Adelaide Spencer * others.
ALsS: EdwardWallington * others.
39
GENERAL
LOTS 36-110
Including
World Leaders,Astronauts, Business Leaders, Scientists, Etc.