La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-28

Creator(s)

La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-01-23

Creator(s)

La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-01-12

Creator(s)

La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge would like President Roosevelt to have lunch with Mary B. J. Schieffelin while she visits the Pinchot family in Washington. She misses the Roosevelts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-15

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge notifies President Roosevelt that petitioning the senators for the upcoming biological survey is complete. Depending on who is appointed, Lockwood will contact him with an update. She is hopeful the right people will be appointed for the commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-05

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt for help in contacting senators for a project she is working on. She is not sure which senators will be receptive to her ideas and is interested in any advice Roosevelt could give her.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-31

Florence Baynard Lockwood La Farge shares Theodore Roosevelt’s anxiety about Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.

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

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge writes Theodore Roosevelt about a report on Convalescent Relief at Bellevue and says that if he does not want his name attached to it, to let her know. She also talks about the book she is reading.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-10-23

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge visited Bellevue and while there she told the nurse, Mary Wadley, about President Roosevelt’s help for Walter Egan. La Farge encloses a note from Wadley, whose grandfather is a Civil War veteran.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-15

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge has gladly sent President Roosevelt’s check to Mary E. Wadley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-17

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks William Loeb for getting her the badge, which has made entrances and exits much easier.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks William Loeb to telegraph her an order for assistant sergeant at arms badge at the Hotel Lexington, Chicago, saying it will make things easier.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-16

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks William Loeb for the note about the tickets, which she will present at the appropriate time. She believes the experience will be interesting, even if it is “as cut and dried” as expected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-03

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the tickets to the Chicago Convention that he sent to her and her husband.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-12

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge replies to President Roosevel’s recent letter about books, and agrees with him on what he has written about Jane Addams. She believes that Addams’s arguments are not well thought out. La Farge wishes that emigration could stop for five years while the United States assimilates its citizens into a more unified whole. She recommends the book The World Machine by Carl Snyder.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-20

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge tells President Roosevelt her thoughts on a variety of books she has read recently. Notably she read and enjoyed George Macaulay Trevelyan’s Garibaldi’s Defense of Rome and Herbert W. Paul’s Life of Froude. She has also read Jane Addams’ book The New Ideals of Peace, and enjoyed Horace Plunkett’s book on Ireland. Her husband C. Grant La Farge has been “splendidly” handling the new arrangements following the death of George Lewis Heins.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-28

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge presents President Roosevelt with a cravat, recommends that he read George Macaulay Trevelyan’s book on Giuseppe Garibaldi, and updates him on her husband C. Grant La Farge’s well being.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-08

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge lets President Roosevelt know that she is pleased that he had a luncheon with Franklin MacVeagh.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge wants President Roosevelt to read the last will of Charles Lounsbury. She includes a second copy for Governor Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois. La Farge wants to read more articles by Lounsbury. She is not fond of Gertrude Atherton’s work, but enjoyed her most recent book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-21

Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge informs President Roosevelt of Charles MacVeagh’s Washington, D.C., travel plans. La Farge thinks that Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will like him. C. Grant La Farge is doing well. Criticism in New York about Roosevelt has calmed down.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-01