Calling card of Matthew C. Gleeson
Calling card of Matthew C. Gleeson with holiday wishes to Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-12-25
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Gleeson, Matthew C. (Matthew Carlin), 1870-1927
Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis
U.S. Navy Chaplain Gleeson reports to Rear Admiral Davis on the state of Kingston, Jamaica, following the earthquake. According to Gleeson, many of the dead were still lying in the streets and the hospital was overcrowded, with an insufficient number of doctors to attend to the wounded. Gleeson visited Winchester Park, which the Jesuit priests had opened up to the public, where a makeshift hospital had been built. Gleeson notes that there is not an immediate danger of famine, but many are concerned about the possibility of an epidemic resulting from the number of dead bodies still lying in the streets.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-01-20
Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to C. H. Davis
Chaplain Gleeson reports on Americans found in Jamaica after the earthquake. Some were sent to the USS Indiana and some to the Missouri, and supplies and food are being provided. The Port Kingston refused to let American women and children sleep on the deck, but Gleeson found no evidence of discrimination against American citizens.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-01-17
Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to Francis C. Travers
Chaplain Gleeson thanks Francis C. Travers for his good wishes after surviving an explosion on the naval ship the USS Missouri. Gleeson praises the conduct of the ship’s Captain William S. Cowles, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law. He had hoped the Missouri would be ordered to New York for repairs, and that would allow him and others from the ship to tell the story in New York of Captain Cowles’s bravery and strong leadership in the crisis; but the ship has been ordered to Newport News. Gleeson comments that Roosevelt is a friend to the Catholics and that the Archbishop of New York, John M. Farley, and he support Roosevelt’s re-election.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-04-24
Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to Theodore Roosevelt
Matthew C. Gleeson, naval chaplain on the USS Missouri, notifies President Roosevelt that he is sending him a photo of the piano purchased with the President’s donation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-18
Letter from Matthew C. Gleeson to Theodore Roosevelt
Chaplain Gleeson extends thanks on behalf of the men of the USS Missouri for President Roosevelt’s $100.00 donation toward a piano for the ship.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-29