Harper, Frank, 1882-1971

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-08-22

Creator(s)

Harper, Frank, 1882-1971

Recipient

Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912

Frank Harper informs Doctor Curtis that Theodore Roosevelt will be unable to attend the annual dinner, as he will be in South America.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1913-07-14

Frank Harper informs Doctor Curtis that Theodore Roosevelt has no photographs that he can send. Harper directs Curtis to where he can obtain a photograph of Roosevelt in New York City.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-01-29

Frank Harper informs G. Lenox Curtis that his best plan would be to put “Hon. Theodore Roosevelt” on the Canadian Camp stationery.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-01-18

Frank Harper informs Doctor Curtis that Theodore Roosevelt appreciated his letter, but that Roosevelt is unable to make commitments to attend dinners. Harper also writes that Roosevelt will not be bringing back pickled or dried meats from Africa.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-03-30

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Harper thanks Doctor Curtis for his letter. He informs Curtis that Roosevelt will accept the position of Vice President of the Canadian Camp, so long as his membership does not require him to contribute funds or time to the Camp.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-01-05

Writing on behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Harper thanks Jose Custodio Alves de Lima for his letter and invites him to lunch at the Outlook office.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1913-06-25

A stenography notebook written by Frank Harper, Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary. On the front is written “Progressive Campaign.”

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1911-1912

A stenography notebook written by Frank Harper, Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary. It is titled “speeches and letters during the primary campaign in (Massa?)”

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912

Manuscript about Theodore Roosevelt’s travels in Europe in 1910, submitted to The Reader’s Digest by his personal secretary, Frank Harper. The article describes how Harper came to work for Theodore Roosevelt, his first meeting with him at Sagamore Hill before his departure on his African safari in 1909, and meeting him again next in Rome a year later. Harper then details the controversy over whether Roosevelt would be able to meet the pope (which meeting Harper describes as being blocked by Cardinal Merry del Val), Roosevelt’s meeting with the King of Italy, his visit to Porto Maurizio to see his wife’s sister Emily Carow, his address at the Sorbonne in Paris (which was translated for him into French by Jules Jusserand), an offer from Count Zeppelin to visit Germany in one of his Zeppelins, the hospitality of the German Kaiser in Berlin, and Roosevelt’s service as the special ambassador representing the United States at the funeral of Edward VII.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

Unknown

Frank Harper confirms with John Maynard Harlan for a meeting time the following day at 11:30am or 3pm.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-19

Frank Harper, who accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on his South American expedition and acted as his secretary, details activities of the expedition. There are edits in pencil throughout the manuscript.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-12-10 to 1914-01-14

Frank Harper details travels on his South America trip with Theodore Roosevelt and an “unexplored river” in this letter to his unnamed sister. Letter is incomplete.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-12-12

Article praises Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt “is what the printers call a lower case Democrat-a man of the people.”

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912

Diary entries discuss departure from his wife and daughter Dora, meeting with Theodore, Edith and Margaret Roosevelt on the S.S. Van Dyck. He describes the weather, islands passed, the purchasing of equipment in Barbados, and a sack race on the ship.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-10-04

Diary entries describes Bahia, Rio de Janiero, Theodore Roosevelt and the President da Fonseca, Guanabara Palace, Mount Sugar Loaf, Corcovado, Tijuca, and Sao Paulo.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-10-17

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges Andrew Powell’s letter and says that Roosevelt can see Powell at The Outlook office tomorrow any time after 10:30 a.m.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-10

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03

Creator(s)

Harper, Frank, 1882-1971

Recipient

Bass, Robert P. (Robert Perkins), 1873-1960

Frank Harper sends instructions to Senator Joseph Dixon regarding logistics for Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches and transportation during his planned campaign tour. Roosevelt dictated a conversation about the ineffectiveness of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law as enacted by President William Howard Taft’s administration. Roosevelt also takes issue with Taft’s inaction over the tariff and wants a commission established to revise it so that it benefits farmers and laborers. He believes in the people’s right to initiative and referendum, not as a replacement for representative government but as a means of ensuring it. President Taft feels that when the people elected him, “their voice was next to the voice of God,” but that in regard to passing judgment on their own laws they are not “entitled to rule.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03

Frank Harper invites William Draper Lewis to lunch with Theodore Roosevelt next Saturday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05