Description:
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon asks Charles Macomb Flandrau to write more frequently. She reflects on "an eventful winter, with fires and fevers and everything." Cutcheon describes a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, bicycling, and the latest novels she has read.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Letter writing; Fires; Health; Bicycles; Books and reading; Neighbors; Kentucky--Boone County; Washington (D.C.); Florida; North Carolina--Asheville; Selmes, Martha (Patty) Macomb Flandrau, 1861-1923; Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene), 1828-1903; Flandrau, Rebecca Blair McClure Riddle, 1839-1911; Flandrau, William Blair, 1875-1938; Cutcheon, Franklin Warner M., 1864-1936; Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933; Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947; Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell), 1849-1923
Date:
1896-05-01
Description:
President Roosevelt and his party standing in front of a gazebo-like structure.
Resource Type:
Stereograph
Subject:
Travel; North Carolina; North Carolina--Asheville--Biltmore; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Vanderbilt, George Washington, 1862-1914
Date:
1902-11-13?
Description:
Children stand alongside a road, some barefoot, holding American flags.
Resource Type:
Stereograph
Subject:
School children; North Carolina; North Carolina--Asheville
Date:
1902-11-13?
Description:
"The Chief Executive thinks Senator Pritchard went too far in excluding qualified negro voters from the State Convention - he may give out a statement regarding the matter which will shock Blackburn and others who are declaring for the old order of things - Mr. Roosevelt shakes hands with 200 Asheville people."
Resource Type:
Newspaper article
Subject:
Race relations; Railroad travel; North Carolina--Asheville; Tennessee--Chattanooga; Tennessee--Newport; Alabama--Stevenson; Tennessee--Knoxville; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Pritchard, Jeter Connelly, 1857-1921; Blackburn, Joseph C. S. (Joseph Clay Stiles), 1838-1918
Date:
1902-11-20?
Description:
James Bryce writes to Secretary Loeb to accept President Roosevelt's invitation to dine and stay at the White House on September 30.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Meetings; North Carolina--Asheville--Biltmore; White House (Washington, D.C.)
Date:
1904-09-20
Description:
William T. S. Rollins claims to know a physician who would testify regarding the mental health of Mrs. Minor Morris.
Resource Type:
Note
Subject:
Scandals; Mental illness; Governmental investigations; Health; North Carolina--Asheville
Date:
1906-01-17
Description:
Robert H. McNeill writes to Thomas S. Rollins concerning his whereabouts and informing him that President Roosevelt was anxious to see him. McNeill and Senator Butler look forward to serving Rollins whenever the necessity presents itself.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Letters; Meetings; North Carolina--Asheville; Washington (D.C.); Raleigh Hotel (Washington, D.C.); Butler, Marion, 1863-1938; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date:
1906-01-18
Description:
Dr. Weaver writes to Chief Sylvester regarding his medical opinion of Laura Hull Morris's mental condition. Weaver believes her to be "unbalanced mentally," a "'crank,'" and "suffering from a mild form of insanity." He has chosen to break doctor-patient confidentiality because he believes the affair causes "the whole nation...to be brought into disrepute" and to assist in President Roosevelt's vindication.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Scandals; Governmental investigations; Diagnosis; Mental illness; North Carolina--Asheville; White House (Washington, D.C.); Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date:
1906-01-20
Description:
After speaking with President Roosevelt about the American merchant marine, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw thought Roosevelt might want a copy of his speech on the subject, which he has given in many places in both the South and the North. Shaw calls it a "universally popular" subject that is getting a lot of attention.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Merchant marine; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Shipping bounties and subsidies; Southern States; Louisiana--New Orleans; Florida--Jacksonville; Florida--Atlantic Beach; North Carolina--Greensboro; North Carolina--Asheville; Virginia--Richmond; Tennessee--Memphis; Alabama--Montgomery; Missouri--Saint Louis; Washington (D.C.); Taliaferro, James Piper, 1847-1934
Date:
1906-10-22
Description:
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Richmond Pearson that there is no need to defend his actions. Roosevelt believes that President Taft's men in North Carolina are acting with the "same infamy" as his men in Chicago.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Actions and defenses; Political campaigns; Illinois--Chicago; North Carolina--Asheville; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Date:
1912-08-20
