Adams, Brooks, 1848-1927

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-01

Creator(s)

Adams, Brooks, 1848-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Brooks Adams writes to President Roosevelt to express his concern and offer advice in regards to Roosevelt’s attempt to “force through a new policy” that is opposed by titans of industry, finance, and the press. Adams also details how opponents support making Joseph Benson Foraker president by capitalizing on the Brownsville Affair. Adams’s primary advice for Roosevelt is to fight relentlessly at every opportunity to eventually force a popular vote on the issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-06

Brooks Adams discusses the necessity of the court system with President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-24

Brooks Adams tells Theodore Roosevelt that his opinions are exclusively for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-15

Brooks Adams thanks Theodore Roosevelt for introduction and kindness. Adams supports absolute control of all property by monopoly or regulation of prices subject to monopoly by government. Adams expresses his conviction by quoting Bible passage, Luke 9:62.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-14

Brooks Adams asks Roosevelt for an introduction to an official at Yellowstone to explain things to him and his wife. Adams goes on to comment on several political issues including the rate bill, the strength of the courts, and Roosevelt’s reelection to a third term which he supports.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-11

Brooks Adams writes to President Roosevelt providing his interpretation of the action the Supreme Court will take regarding the Allison Amendment and the Hepburn Act. He believes that if William H. Taft is on the bench, the Supreme Court will give the act a liberal construction.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-05

Brooks Adams explains to President Roosevelt his reservations about passing the Hepburn Act which would give the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set Railroad rates as it “lays down no principle for establishing a reasonable rate.” He speculates on the ramifications of passing the bill and of accepting compromising amendments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-01

Brooks Adams writes to Theodore Roosevelt about the importance of establishing federal authority to set railroad rates. Adams represents Spokane, which pays nearly double what Portland pays. Adams urges Roosevelt to see to it that the new bill provide a “long and short haul clause” forbidding discriminatory rates that charge more for the lesser distance than the greater distance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-29

Brooks Adams advises President Roosevelt to publish a letter in response to Judge Alton B. Parker’s letter outlining the Democratic platform.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-03

Brooks Adams believes that President Roosevelt will have the U. S. Supreme Court – “perhaps unanimously.” Adams compliments Attorney General Elihu Root on his argument, describing it as a “remarkable feat.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-15

Brooks Adams writes to President Roosevelt to discuss Russian and Japanese interests in Manchuria, and he agrees with Roosevelt’s and the Attorney General Knox’s policy on U.S. Railroads. Adams gives his regards to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-17

Brooks Adams accepts an invitation to dine at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-18

Brooks Adams accepts an invitation to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-17

Brooks Adams requests a brief meeting with President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-16

Brooks Adams is busy at the time suggested by President Roosevelt. The matter he wanted to discuss was trivial and Roosevelt’s information is probably better then his own anyway.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-16

Brooks Adams would be pleased to be of service to President Roosevelt and will be in Washington, D.C., starting around November 8.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-29

Quoting from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Brooks Adams congratulations President Roosevelt and tells him that he “will always stand as the President who began the contest for supremacy of American against the eastern continent.” Adams assures Roosevelt that he has the courage and capacity to succeed and that fortune has in mind for him “as prosperous a future as she has had a brilliant past.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-23