Guide to the Elizabeth Robins Papers MSS.002

Fales Library and Special Collections

Collection processed by Janet Evander.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on January 21, 2022
Description is in English.

Container List

Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Series IV: Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins Scope and Contents note Series IV spans the years 1887-1951 and contains materials related to Raymon Robins and his wife Margaret Dreier Robins. This series consists mainly of correspondence, some newspaper clippings, and texts of speeches and is arranged into four subseries. Subseries A-C are arranged chronologically. Raymond Robins (1873-1954), Elizabeth Robins's youngest brother, was a lawyer, social worker, lecturer and politician. He led an active life in which he became passionately involved in a wide variety of progressive causes. In 1905 he married Margaret Dreier (1868-1945), an active member of the Women's Trade Union League. Margaret Dreier Robins served as President of the National Women's Trade Union League from 1907-1922. She also spoke in favor of women's suffrage and, like Raymond Robins, became involved in Progressive Party politics and, in the 1920's, the movement to outlaw war.
Subseries A: Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins to Elizabeth Robins Scope and Contents note Subseries A contains the correspondence of Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins as well as occasional letters from Elizabeth Robins to Raymond Robins. Raymond Robins wrote faithfully to ER for most of their lives. His letters describe his social and political activism as well as his opinions of American politics and politicians. They also address family matters and reminisce about childhood experiences. Raymond Robins's interest in settlement work and the problems of the homeless is expressed in letters he wrote while involved with Chicago Commons and the Northwest University Settlement. A few typescripts of his speeches are filed at the end of Subseries A. Raymond Robins also occasionally sent Elizabeth Robins letters he received and considered noteworthy. One example of this practice is the 1901 letter from Jane Addams about Abraham Isaak. On the back of this letter is a note written by Isaak, while it prison, to Robins written from prison (See Box 1, Folder 2).
Box: 87	Folder : 2	RR to ER 1900-1901	1900 -1901
Box: 87	Folder : 3	RR to ER 1902	1902
Box: 87	Folder : 4	RR to ER (January-July) 1903	1903
Box: 87	Folder : 5	RR to ER (September-December) 1903	1903
Box: 87	Folder : 6	RR to ER 1904	1904
Box: 87	Folder : 7	RR and Margaret Dreier Robins (MDR) to ER 1905	1905
Box: 88	Folder : 8	RR and MDR to ER 1906	1906
Box: 88	Folder : 9	RR and MDR to ER 1907	1907
Box: 88	Folder : 10	RR and MDR to ER 1908	1908
Box: 88	Folder : 11	RR and MDR to ER 1909	1909
Box: 88	Folder : 12	RR and MDR to ER 1910	1910
Box: 88	Folder : 13	RR and MDR to ER 1911	1911
Box: 88	Folder : 14	RR and MDR to ER 1912	1912
Box: 89	Folder : 15	RR and MDR to ER 1913	1913
Box: 89	Folder : 16	RR and MDR to ER 1914	1914
Box: 89	Folder : 17	RR and MDR to ER 1915	1915
Box: 89	Folder : 18	RR and MDR to ER 1916	1916
Box: 89	Folder : 19	RR and MDR to ER 1917	1917
Box: 89	Folder : 20	RR and MDR to ER 1918	1918
Box: 89	Folder : 21	RR and MDR to ER 1919	1919
Box: 89	Folder : 22	RR and MDR to ER 1920	1920
Box: 90	Folder : 23	RR and MDR to ER 1921	1921
Box: 90	Folder : 24	RR and MDR to ER 1922	1922
Box: 90	Folder : 25	RR and MDR to ER 1923	1923
Box: 90	Folder : 26	RR and MDR to ER 1924	1924
Box: 90	Folder : 27	RR to ER 1925	1925
Box: 91	Folder : 28	RR to ER 1926	1926
Box: 91	Folder : 29	RR to ER (January-May) 1927	1927
Box: 91	Folder : 30	RR to ER (April-December) 1927	1927
Box: 91	Folder : 31	RR to ER 1928	1928
Box: 91	Folder : 32	RR to ER 1929	1929
Box: 91	Folder : 33	RR to ER 1930	1930
Box: 91	Folder : 34	RR to ER 1931	1931
Box: 92	Folder : 35	RR and MDR to ER (January-August) 1932	1932
Box: 92	Folder : 36	Various people to ER re: RR's disappearance and reappearance (September-December) 1932	1932
Box: 92	Folder : 37	RR and MDR to ER 1933	1933
Box: 92	Folder : 38	RR and MDR to ER 1934	1934
Box: 92	Folder : 39	RR and MDR to ER 1935	1935
Box: 93	Folder : 40	RR and MDR to ER (January-April) 1936	1936
Box: 93	Folder : 41	RR and MDR to ER (May-December) 1936	1936
Box: 93	Folder : 42	RR and MDR to ER 1937	1937
Box: 93	Folder : 43	RR and MDR to ER 1938	1938
Box: 93	Folder : 44	RR and MDR to ER 1939	1939
Box: 93	Folder : 45	RR and MDR to ER 1940	1940
Box: 94	Folder : 46	RR and MDR to ER 1941	1941
Box: 94	Folder : 47	RR and MDR to ER (February-July) 1942	1942
Box: 94	Folder : 48	RR and MDR to ER (August-December) 1942	1942
Box: 94	Folder : 49	RR and MDR to ER 1943	1943
Box: 94	Folder : 50	RR and MDR to ER 1944	1944
Box: 94	Folder : 51	RR and MDR to ER 1945	1945
Box: 95	Folder : 52	RR to ER 1946-1948	1946 -1948
Box: 95	Folder : 53	RR to ER 1949	1949
Box: 95	Folder : 54	RR to ER 1950	1950
Box: 95	Folder : 55	RR to ER 1951	1951
Box: 95	Folder : 56	RR to ER n.d.	n.d.
Box: 95	Folder : 1	1905-1939, n.d. [to Raymond Robins]	1905 -1939
Box: 95	Folder : 2	General Correspondence
Subseries B: Margaret Dreier Robins Scope and Contents note Margaret Dreier Robins's correspondence begins in 1905, the year she married Raymond Robins, and continues regularly until 1924. Thereafter, her letters appear sporadically from 1932-1945. Margaret Dreier Robins only occasionally wrote to ER about the progress of American suffragists and her impressions of Chicago politics. Her letters deal mainly with the beauty and workings of the Chinsegut Hill property in Florida and her husband's health. Subseries B also contains one folder of letters from Margaret Dreier Robins to Raymond Robins that are primarily love letters.
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 95	Folder : 1	1905-1939, n.d. [to Raymond Robins]	1905 -1939
Box: 95	Folder : 2	General Correspondence
Subseries C: Raymond Robins, General Correspondence Scope and Contents note Invitations to speak comprise much of the general correspondence in Subseries C. In addition, there are a few letters from Raymond Robins's father, Charles E. Robins (Folder 1) and sporadic letters from Vernon Robins and the Dreiers. There are some early letters showing Raymond Robins's interest in women's suffrage (Folder 1) and a 1911 letter on the subject of lynching, signed by five black ministers (Folder 3). Also in this subseries are letters from Leonora O'Reilly (Folder 2), Theodore Roosevelt (Folders 3 and 4), Harold Ickes (Folders 4 and 6), Salmon O. Levinson (Folder 6), telegrams from Robert LaFollette and Medille McCormick (Folder 3) and two letters from Trotsky.
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 96	Folder : 1	1891-1904	1891 -1904
Box: 96	Folder : 2	1905 General note Re: RR's marriage to Margaret Dreier.	1905
Box: 96	Folder : 3	1905-1912	1905 -1912
Box: 96	Folder : 4	1913-1914	1913 -1914
Box: 96	Folder : 5	1917 General note Includes two letters from Leon Trotsky.	1917
Box: 96	Folder : 6	1921-1944 (sporadic)	1921 -1914
Box: 96	Folder : *	*For typescripts of speeches by Raymond Robins and Robins' license to practice law in Florida, see Box 12, Folders l and 2.
Subseries D: Printed Material and Ephemera Scope and Contents note Subseries D contains printed material and ephemera.
Container 1	Container 2	Title	Date
Box: 97	Folder : 1	Broadsides and programs of Raymond Robins' speeches Scope and Content See also Oversize Material, Box 267, Folder 14.
Box: 97	Folder : 2	exts of speeches and articles by Raymond Robins
Box: 97	Folder : 3	Publications relating to Raymond Robins Scope and Content For publications about the Smith-Robins World Tour.and the Men and Religion Forward Movement, see Box 98, Folder 5.
Box: 97	Folder : 4	Raymond Robins' ephemera (1914)	1914
Box: 97	Folder : 5	Margaret Dreier Robins
Box: 97	Folder : 6	Florida
Box: 98	Folder : 1	Raymond Robins to Elizabeth Robins 1902-1948	1902 -1948
Box: 98	Folder : 2	Typescripts of Raymond Robins' speeches 1902, 1904, 1911, n.d.	1902 -1911
Box: 98	Folder : 3	License to practice law in Florida 1895	1895
Box: 98	Folder : 4	Texts of speeches and letters by various people 1913-41, n.d.	1913 -1941
Box: 98	Folder : 5	Publications and broadsides regarding the Smith-Robins World Tour and the Man and Religion Forward Movement
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Series IV: Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins

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Subseries A: Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins to Elizabeth Robins

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Subseries B: Margaret Dreier Robins

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Subseries C: Raymond Robins, General Correspondence

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Subseries D: Printed Material and Ephemera

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