La Farge, C. Grant (Christopher Grant), 1862-1938

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-07

Creator(s)

La Farge, C. Grant (Christopher Grant), 1862-1938

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

C. Grant La Farge encloses a letter from Williams & Whitman regarding the cost of an engine for President Roosevelt’s home.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-29

C. Grant La Farge offers Theodore Roosevelt sympathy for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident, having just learned of it this morning. La Farge shares they receive happy letters from Christopher Grant La Farge, Jr., “Kipper,” at Groton, who is playing football.

Comments and Context

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

C. Grant La Farge will expect Theodore Roosevelt at his house on January 6 at 1:30.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-24

C. Grant La Farge provides President Roosevelt with potential dates in September when he and his wife Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge are available to stay. They look forward to visiting and hope it will be convenient for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-16

C. Grant La Farge is very interested to visit President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill to discuss placing a new painting the Roosevelts have acquired. La Farge will consult his “boss,” Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge, and let him know when they will be able to come.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-12

Upon seeing that President Roosevelt’s post-presidential plans, which Roosevelt had told him in confidence at the Boone & Crockett Club dinner, were printed in the Times, C. Grant La Farge assures him that he does not repeat things Roosevelt says to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-14

C. Grant La Farge writes a letter of introduction for William Merriam Chadbourne, the captain of his election district, whom he would like President Roosevelt to know. Chadbourne is the kind of man Roosevelt wants working in politics, and is a faithful supporter of Herbert Parsons.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-01

C. Grant La Farge asks William Loeb to inform President Roosevelt that he will arrive on Wednesday, perhaps in time to play tennis. He cannot stay over on Thursday. His wife, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge, might also come.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-26

C. Grant La Farge is excited to visit President Roosevelt and lists the times he is available. La Farge is having a difficult time as his business partner George L. Heins has been seriously ill and is unlikely to recover. His family is well, and he will try to convince his wife Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge of the merits afforded by a week’s rest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-22

C. Grant La Farge is grateful for President Roosevelt responding to his letter about the contract. He realized that he worded his letter awkwardly about not wanting competition. He is distressed that Roosevelt felt uncomfortable and assures Roosevelt that their friendship will not be affected by the outcome. He had not known about the severity of Roosevelt’s son, Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt’s illness at the time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-09

C. Grant La Farge suggests a solution to President Roosevelt for the trouble he is having with the chimney at his Oyster Bay property.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-07

C. Grant La Farge discusses his plans to visit President Roosevelt at his “well-known sporting resort” and banters about the tennis matches they will play. La Farge jokes with Roosevelt about his participation in the simplified spelling movement, or “Theodore defying the Dictionary,” and shares a comical poem he has written about the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-30

C. Grant La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the letter. He hopes that his wife Florence will be able to come visit soon, and they can all have a nice time together. La Farge has been upset lately over a common acquaintance of theirs whom he calls a “mean dog,” and notes that it is a real help to “pour out one’s woes to a friend.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-05

Architect La Farge writes President Roosevelt that the post office has been provided for in recent appropriations and asks whether Roosevelt has spoken to Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou about La Farge “coming in on it” yet, likely inquiring about putting in a bid for his firm to design it. La Farge writes that his son Christopher has become an avid reader and recently read Roosevelt’s “Outdoor Sports” book, likely referring to Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-02

C. Grant La Farge writes to President Roosevelt concerning a possible trip to Washington within the next week. La Farge doubts that he will be able to fit the trip into his schedule, so he tentatively makes plans to visit Roosevelt on alternate dates at the end of the month.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-12

C. Grant La Farge has already heard about the smoking of the fireplace, which seems to occur when the wind is in a certain direction. To remedy this, they will be using some form of chimney cap.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-04

C. Grant La Farge has been working on the estimates for work he has done at the White House. Tongue in cheek, he suggests that he and his wife Florence would like to present the tablets to the White House as a gift, understanding that, in a few years, he will be given the first vacant ambassadorship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-15

C. Grant La Farge writes to President Roosevelt about the election of Mr. Moore to the Boone and Crockett Club. La Farge supports Moore but some in the club believe Moore’s nomination was aided by a letter from Roosevelt which was gained through political favors. La Farge asks for Roosevelt’s clarification on this issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-05

C. Grant La Farge writes to William Loeb about several issues related to the remodeling of Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-06