Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-21

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

The American consul in Odessa, Alfred W. Smith, and Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the United States Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen, have been informed that President Roosevelt gladly accepts the honorary membership in the Crimea-Caucasian Mountaineering Club that he has been offered.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-12

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon notifies President Roosevelt that the Alpine Club of the Crimea has elected Roosevelt as an honorary member. The State Department made inquiry to the Russian Ambassador, Roman Rosen, regarding the standing and recognition of the club. Bacon encloses both a translation of the letter from the Alpine Club president and the reply from Rosen regarding the club’s standing. The State Department will forward Roosevelt’s reply as to whether he accepts the honorary membership.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-03

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Robert Bacon asks William Loeb if there is some time when the “gentleman with the unpronounceable name” can visit with President Roosevelt. Bacon encloses a letter from the United States ambassador to Russia John Wallace Riddle, describing the person, but Russian Ambassador Baron Rosen has distanced himself from the gentleman. Bacon has told the gentleman that Roosevelt is unable to join the gentleman’s society, but may be willing to accept the token the gentleman wishes to present.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-14

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Acting Secretary of State Bacon forwards to President Roosevelt a dispatch from the Legation at Buenos Aires. The message communicates Luis María Drago’s appreciation of Roosevelt’s reference to him in his message to Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-14

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Bacon is honored to enclose a despatch from the Legation at Montevideo, Uruguay, in regard to the presentation of a photograph of Uruguayan President José Batlle y Ordóñez to President Roosevelt by the chargés d’affaires of Uruguay, Edward C. O’Brien.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-19

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Bacon is honored to forward to President Roosevelt a dispatch concerning the qualifications of Alan Johnstone for the British ambassadorship at Washington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-12

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Robert Bacon writes to Theodore Roosevelt to convey his condolences about the death of John M. Hay. He offers to come visit the Roosevelts with his family, if they would like, at Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-05

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Robert Bacon writes a note on his business card to an unknown recipient, about a meeting “on your way to Dp’t in the morning.” An attached note indicates this relates to a letter from Thomas Talbot.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-28

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Secretary of State Bacon has read the letters that William Loeb enclosed. Jacob H. Schiff understands that President Roosevelt has done all that he can. Dr. Felix Adler’s letter noted a failed planned massacre. Bacon has kept the Ambassador in the loop and asked that he cable Bacon if further action requires attention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-31

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Acting Secretary of State Bacon sends President Roosevelt a copy of a dispatch from Jacob Sleeper, American chargé d’affaires, about the “extent and progress of the present uprising” in Cuba.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-06

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-03-17

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-28

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

Ambassador Bacon received Theodore Roosevelt’s telegram. President of France Armand Fallières will see Roosevelt on Thursday or Friday and wants to entertain him the following week. The Sorbonne and the French Institute have arrangements for Roosevelt on the twentieth. Bacon requests feedback from Roosevelt.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-18

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Ambassador Bacon writes Theodore Roosevelt from France, where he has been staying with the outgoing ambassador Henry White and taking over his house. Bacon was reluctant to accept the post as Ambassador to France and is sorry that White is leaving the diplomatic service. Bacon saw Roosevelt’s family when they were in England and he was glad to hear about Roosevelt’s journey from Edith. He laments the possibility that Gifford Pinchot will be forced out of the Taft administration and reports on what he did during his stay in London.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-09-03

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Bacon provides the requested report on Princess Sofia Grigorievna Kropotkina. She is the wife of Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, a well-known geographer, scientist, and anarchist, and is known to assist him in his work. The State Department has no records regarding Kropotkin’s 1900 visit to the United States, nor the proposed visit of Kropotkina. There may be an indication in the records of the Department of Commerce and Labor regarding waiving the statute which excludes anarchists from entering the country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-09

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Robert Bacon sends President Roosevelt a copy of a dispatch from David Jayne Hill detailing the presentation of his credentials to German Emperor William II, and the cordial manner in which he was received.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-14

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

First Assistant Secretary of State Bacon has heard that it would be satisfactory for only half the Atlantic Fleet to visit China. This allows Plan A to be ruled out. An attached note states that this meets Secretary of State Elihu Root’s approval.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-27

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Bacon advises President Roosevelt that it may be wise to notify John James Jenkins, Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, that Roosevelt expects an opinion from Secretary of State Elihu Root regarding the charges against Judge Lebbus R. Wilfley, and that he will provide it to the committee once he has it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-25

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

Assistant Secretary of State Bacon encloses a letter for President Roosevelt from Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Ambassador in Rome, reporting that he gave King Victor Emmanuel III copies of the new coinage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-12

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919