Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Holmes E. Offley is being reinstated in the Pension Office for the purpose of transfer to the Navy Department.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-11-13

Creator(s)

Ryan, Thomas, 1837-1914

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-13

Creator(s)

Metropolitan Club Restaurant

Language

English

Period

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (April 1897-April 1898)

Henry S. Drinker writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to enclose two letters from their mutual friends, Robert Jenkins Nevin, Pastor of the American Episcopal church in Rome, and William Wells, who recently moved to a new location in Wyoming. Drinker hopes to spend next summer with Wells.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-11-15

Creator(s)

Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937

Robert Jenkins Nevin reports to Henry S. Drinker on his recent hunting trip in South Africa with famous hunter Cornelius J. Van Rooyen. Nevin narrates the process of killing a giraffe and hearing a lion fight.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-11-15

Creator(s)

Nevin, Robert Jenkins, 1839-1906

Thomas A. Janvier thanks Assistant Secretary of the Navy for helping him get a research permit. He refuses to be dissuaded by talk about records burning in a fire. Janvier and his wife, Catherine A. Janvier, are grateful for their friendship with Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-11-19

Creator(s)

Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913

Florida Secretary of State Crawford received Wallace S. Weeks’ letter and sends a duplicate of his commission as a notary public in and for Florida. Crawford was glad to hear from Weeks and wants to him. His wife’s birds died, and he wants to procure a Honduran parrot, possibly from Weeks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-12-09

Creator(s)

Crawford, John L. (John Lovic), 1816-1902

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt has purchased a subscription to The Deer of all Lands: A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct by Richard Lydekker from the publisher Rowland Ward Limited.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-12-14

Creator(s)

Rowland Ward Limited

Rudyard Kipling writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asking him to meet with his friend Sidney Low, editor of the London Gazette, when he visits the United States in February.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-12-21

Creator(s)

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Douglas Robinson does not know how to advise Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt on whether to sell or keep his stock in the National Mining and Exploring Company. Robinson did not accept Mr. Post’s offer for Roosevelt’s stock in the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railway, as his bid was too low.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-12-24

Creator(s)

Robinson, Douglas, 1855-1918

Frederic Remington received Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt’s book The Winning of the West for Christmas and compliments Roosevelt on his ability to write history books. Remington was looking to use some primary sources for inspiration for his art, but Roosevelt’s book did the trick.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-12-25

Creator(s)

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-01

Creator(s)

Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

This resolution states that marble busts of Vice Presidents may be placed in the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-06

Creator(s)

United States. Congress

Rear Admiral Evans comments on his recent duck hunt and is glad that Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed the ducks. Roosevelt’s letter “was perfect,” and Evans is certain the Navy will appreciate Roosevelt’s clear presentation of the pay question. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-07

Creator(s)

Evans, Robley D. (Robley Dunglison), 1846-1912

Rear Admiral Higginson writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt praising him for his report which emphasizes investing in training Navy personnel. Higginson favors the current bill and hopes it does not die in Congress. However, the selection clause in the bill is as divisive among Navy personnel as the silver currency issue is in Congress. He hopes this bill will make for a more unified, organized Navy for the future.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-10

Creator(s)

Higginson, Francis John, 1843-1931

Jeremiah D. Sullivan thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his help in promoting Sullivan to sergeant.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-15

Creator(s)

Sullivan, Jeremiah D., 1871-1898

Bank draft from the Union Trust Company, for $412.58 to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, signed by Robinson Douglas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-19

Creator(s)

Robinson, Douglas, 1855-1918

James Alfred Roosevelt informs Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt that he needs to put his letter to Mr. Tyng in the form of an affidavit and to add the assertion that he has no personal taxable property in the city.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-01-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, James Alfred, 1825-1898

Senator Platt writes to New York Superintendent of Immigration Fitchie on reports of “extreme partisan conduct” on the part of Ellis Island Commissioner Edward F. McSweeney. Fitchie suggests that McSweeney be removed and replaced with a “good Republican.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-02-17

Creator(s)

Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910

Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including Three Years’ Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-west by J. Turner-Turner, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Comprising Fifteen Years’ Hunting and Trading by James Chapman, Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes by Charles Sperling Cumberland, and A Naturalist in the Transvaal by William Lucas Distant.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-02-18

Creator(s)

Rowland Ward Limited

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-02-25

Creator(s)

Long, John Davis, 1838-1915

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English