Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-05

Creator(s)

Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Montagu White is glad that Frederick Courteney Selous is answering Governor Roosevelt’s questions about “the South African difficulty.” White believes that American public opinion is growing in favor of the Boers, and that those who wish to preserve the special friendship with Great Britain should push for peace in order to prevent anti-British feeling. White thinks that if the Boers lose their independence, Britain will lose South Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-06

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-12

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-13

Creator(s)

Coler, Bird Sim, 1867-1941

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-15

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Lieutenant Francis J. Haeseler thanks Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt for persuading Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long to replace the USS Texas’ old system. They installed the new system, and Haeseler thinks that the guns will fire within ninety seconds instead of over two minutes if some changes are made. The officers and crew feel that the Texas is in “excellent fighting condition.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-17

Harry Godey relates an incident at a recent meeting of the Harvard Club of Philadelphia, at which Theodore Roosevelt was applauded by a Yale man for his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Godey goes on to reminisce about letters Roosevelt wrote him of his adventures in Egypt as a young boy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-18

Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included half of a spring chicken, a glass of milk, and strawberries and cream. Theodore Roosevelt paid seventy cents for the meal.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-18

Robert Harry Munro Ferguson wants to be involved in any way possible with Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition and thought of joining Troop A (of the Rough Riders).

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-24

William Tudor writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt begging him to reconsider his decision to leave his post as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Tudor believes Roosevelt is better as an administrator than Secretary of the Navy John D. Long because Roosevelt favored war from the start.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-25

Thomas E. Fraser requests clarification from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt on where his regiment is to be drawn from. (Roosevelt’s original letter to Fraser had unintended bleed-through from another letter, with conflicting statements about where the men were going to be drawn from. Roosevelt told Fraser they should come from the West, but told John J. Fox Jr., that some would come from “Harvard and elsewhere.” Fraser underlines this portion and includes the notation “not west.”)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-26

Receipt from a meal at the Metropolitan Club Restaurant in which Assistant Secretary Roosevelt ordered pork chops, toast, and a glass of milk.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-26

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-27

Creator(s)

Wadsworth, William Austin, 1847-1918

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included mutton chops, potato salad, a glass of milk, and strawberries and cream. Theodore Roosevelt paid two dollars and thirty cents for the meal.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-29

Samuel E. Moffett encloses Assistant Secretary Roosevelt’s letter with regrets that it should have been misinterpreted. He looks forward to hearing Roosevelt’s account of his achievements in Cuba.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-30

Receipt from the Metropolitan Club restaurant for which Theodore Roosevelt spent thirty eight dollars and fifty cents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-01

Secretary of the Navy Long tries to discourage Assistant Secretary Roosevelt from resigning from his post.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-07

Frederick A. Stokes hopes that Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt considers publishing an account of his experiences in the Spanish-American War with the Stokes Publishing Company. Stokes assures Roosevelt that they will publish on Roosevelt’s terms and refers Roosevelt to Lieutenant Peary as a reference for the company. Stokes also mentions a few of the other writers who they have published, and asks that Roosevelt write him back while acknowledging how busy Roosevelt is with war work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-07

Lowell A. Chamberlin tells Colonel Wood that he was disappointed to hear from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt that enlistment is full, and he hopes that Wood will give him a chance to call on him in the near future.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-09

John Addison Porter thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and wishes him success in his “new and important undertaking.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-09