Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams tells President Roosevelt that Roosevelt gave him a fright. He still needs to get through Charles Eliot.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-03-11
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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams thanks President Roosevelt for the autographs and promises to return them. He wishes he had older autographs, as well, but they are very scarce.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-03-05
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Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Using flowery prose, Henry Adams invites President Roosevelt to visit him. He had arranged entertainment for a guest who unfortunately became sick, and now is left with the various engagements he scheduled.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-1909
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Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams would rather visit President Roosevelt on March 2 with just the two of them. He jokes that after this spring, he and Andrew Jackson will be the “solitary monuments” in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. While Jackson may be as handsome as Roosevelt, “he is not as good company at dinner.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-02-10
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Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams jokingly chides President Roosevelt for having referred to a statue of Adams’ as a woman, as Adams believes that the sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens aimed higher than depicting either a man or a woman, but meant to represent a genderless humanity.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-12-16
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Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams corrects a previous statement he had made to President Roosevelt about John Quincy Adams’s time serving in Congress after his time as President.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-03-08
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Letter from Henry Adams to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Adams congratulates President Roosevelt on his maneuverings with the emperors and expresses his deep concern regarding a reported upcoming visit to Washington by Francis Augustus MacNutt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-11-06
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Theodore Roosevelt page in autograph album
A letter with envelope from President Roosevelt to Bishop William Lawrence dated September 21, 1901, which has been taped into an autograph album created by Henry Adams and his mother Abigail and later added to by George Peabody and Endicott Peabody. A handwritten label at the top of the page reads: “Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-19, twenty-sixth president of the U.S., organizer of the Rough Riders, reformer, big game hunter & writer.”
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Creation Date
1901