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URGING CREATION OF U.S. CHILDREN’S BUREAU

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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.”

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(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,

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leather, markedly worn.

SOLD AS IS

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Np, nd

[200/300]

Clipped signatures: Charles Dickens * Robert Browning * Adelaide Spencer * others.

ALsS: EdwardWallington * others.

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