Grey, Albert Henry George Grey, Earl, 1851-1917

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-12

Creator(s)

Grey, Albert Henry George Grey, Earl, 1851-1917

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Earl Grey reassures President Roosevelt that he will support George Bird Grinnell’s conservation efforts. Grey has spoken with multiple people about the killing of wolves and buffalo.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-10

Writing from his family residence at Howick Hall in Northumberland, Earl Grey congratulates President Roosevelt on being re-elected. Grey mentions how he values Roosevelt’s A Strenuous Life and he asks for a new signed copy, as he tends to loan his to others. Grey will be sailing to North America in December to take up his position as Governor General of Canada.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-11

Earl Grey believes that overcrowded urban conditions are damaging the population’s physical standards and affecting military recruitment. He suggests that a Royal Commission be formed to investigate the national physique.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-22

Earl Grey apologizes in having taken so long to return Alfred E. Pease’s account of the death of his brother, George Grey, but wished to wait until he could send Theodore Roosevelt a photograph of him which showed his character better than the studio portraits that are more common. When he next sees Roosevelt in person, he will share some stories of George Grey, which he is sure Roosevelt will enjoy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-01

Earl Grey tells Theodore Roosevelt that George Grey has been mauled by a lion in Africa and will likely die. Alfred E. Pease, whose wife Helen died last year, is with him in Nairobi. Grey reflects fondly on his visit with the Roosevelt’s at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-04

Earl Grey thanks President Roosevelt for sending his photographic portrait and is happy to hang it among his portraits of other American politicians. Grey also sends a facsimile of a chair owned by James Wolfe and gifted to George, Prince of Wales, and thanks Roosevelt for sending his sister, Alice Roosevelt Cowles, to Québec’s tercentenary celebration. In the postscript, Grey notes how he has been “haunted” by the illustrations of mountains that Roosevelt appended to his last message.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-13

Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, speaks to the Women’s Canadian Club about raising the funds to erect a “colossal statue of the Angel of Welcome and Peace” on the Plains of Abraham to welcome emigrants to Canada. This should be done to celebrate the tricentennial of the founding of Quebec. Describing Canada’s history, Grey compares the United States’ dedication to erecting patriotic monuments and preserving its past to the lack of enthusiasm in doing the same in Canada.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-28

Governor General of Canada Earl Grey reports the success of Quebec’s tercentenary celebrations to President Roosevelt. He thanks Roosevelt for sending Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as representative of the United States and his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles as his personal representative. Grey comments on the lessons of nationalism found in J. Ellis Barker’s history of the Netherlands. Additionally, Grey is having a duplicate of a historical chair made for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-11

Earl Grey has sent a gift of Canadian Northern Spy apples to President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-29

Earl Grey thanks President Roosevelt for the courtesy he showed him during his trip to Washington. Grey was especially moved by the visit to Mount Vernon. Grey also asks Roosevelt to forward the enclosed correspondence regarding the Franklin portrait to S. Weir Mitchell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-10

Earl Grey thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his invitation to the White House. Grey also discusses the logistics of handing off a prisoner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-10

Earl Grey writes to President Roosevelt to return a painting of Benjamin Franklin that was taken by his ancestor when the British occupied Philadelphia. Part of the reason for this re-attribution is the Franklin Bicentennial Celebration planned in Philadelphia in 1906.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-08

Earl Grey writes to President Roosevelt mentioning a publication about tropical dependency and also mentions Gifford Pinchot.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-11

In celebration of Dominion Day, Earl Grey sends Theodore Roosevelt a salmon from the Cascapedia River.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-06

Earl Grey is traveling across southern Africa and finds that tensions remain strained between Briton and Boer, especially in Cape Colony. He mentions that Dr. Parkin will be visiting the U.S. in regard to the new Rhodes Scholarships. He also requests President Roosevelt’s support for the American Episcopal Methodist Mission in Rhodesia. The mission has received a large land donation from Cecil Rhodes and is sending a young American back to the United States to examine the latest tobacco growing techniques and processes. As a postscript, Grey mentions that he found Dr. Jameson reading Roosevelt’s The Strenuous Life in preparation for a speech. Original and typed copy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-24

Earl Grey sends words of encouragement as President Roosevelt recovers from the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, accident and subsequent surgery.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-01

Earl Grey expresses regrets that the internment ceremony for the recently deceased Cecil Rhodes could not be delayed until autumn to allow for “every British and every American that might have been represented at the occasion” to attend.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-04

The late Cecil Rhodes has bequeathed two Oxford scholarships to each state and territory of the United States and 15 scholarships to German students, believing that educational ties among the three countries will help to foster understanding and world peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-04

Earl Grey plans to send President Roosevelt a copy of Cecil Rhodes’s will and other documents, which will illustrate why Roosevelt reminds him of Rhodes. He wishes that Roosevelt and Rhodes could have met, because it would have been an encouragement to Rhodes to see someone who holds his ideals be in a position to see them realized.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-28