Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt he was mistaken about the president’s communication with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner being published. Only Gardner’s correspondence with Attorney General William H. Moody had been published. Given that Gardner carried his district by over 9,000, Lodge believes no good “can come by reopening it.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-10

Senator Lodge explains a situation reconciling differences of account between “Harry” and Attorney General William H. Moody regarding the Second Battleship Squadron. Moving on to a matter with Augustus Peabody Gardner, which Lodge finds distressing, Lodge explains that he stands by the recommendation of Moody. He believes Roosevelt will carry New York in the upcoming election. Everyone is stressed due to it being the final hours of the campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-03

Senator Lodge has only one of the documents Howes Norris has requested, the second part of the 1901 Smithsonian report.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1904-12-14

Senator Lodge studies the character and opinions of President Roosevelt as expressed in his speeches in this article, originally published in The Critic.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1904-04

Henry Cabot Lodge sends a note of concern following an accident in which Theodore Roosevelt’s carriage was hit by a trolley car. Lodge and his wife Nannie were greatly distressed by the incident. Lodge notes that he is seeing Coolidge tomorrow and that Hale has endorsed TR in a speech on trusts. In a postscript, Lodge tells Roosevelt that he telegraphed him that afternoon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-03

Senator Lodge agrees to visit the White House and relays Judge George Gray’s request that President Roosevelt visit him as he cannot scale the White House stairs in his condition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-20

Senator Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for the photograph and comments on a speech that Senator Dolliver made recently.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-19

The Central American Telegraph Company is requesting government intervention on the company’s behalf in a dispute with Panama. Senator Lodge disagrees with President Roosevelt’s position on the matter and suggests that the government give their business to an American company instead of the English telegraph company operating in the area.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-25

Henry Cabot Lodge notifies President Roosevelt that he missed the one o’clock train from Boston so will be catching the ten o’clock train from New York to Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-22

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-09-25

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Senator Lodge was pleased to receive Theodore Roosevelt’s note and is glad he liked the paperweight. Lodge has been working on his “reminiscences” since 1907 and some of them are currently being published in a magazine. Everything will eventually be published in a book. He is excited for Roosevelt’s speech in Boston, Massachusetts for the Historical Association.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-28

Senator Lodge corrects previous correspondence as the vote in New York will be tomorrow instead of Thursday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-08

Senator Lodge wants to do all he can to save the battleship legislation and thanks Theodore Roosevelt for writing to Senator Clapp. He is angered by the publication of a private letter by Maria Longworth Storer from Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-01

Senator Lodge requests Theodore Roosevelt’s help with passing legislation that will fund new battleships. The Senate has had a very successful session. Three important measures have passed; the ending of the white phosphorus match industry, an improved immigration bill, and a workmen’s compensation act.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-10

Senator Lodge encloses a political cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman that he found amusing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-14

Senator Lodge is working to secure Senator Clapps’s support for the battleship legislation. As a member of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Clapp’s support could be very beneficial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-27

Senator Lodge clarifies a correction he sent to J. Henry Harper regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s actions after the 1880 Republican National Convention. The conversation suggested by Harper between Roosevelt and George William Curtis never took place as Roosevelt did not return to New York by train. After a personal inquiry of Roosevelt and a review of letters from that time, Lodge knows that Roosevelt could not have said what was attributed to him in Harper’s book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-23

Senator Lodge thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the telegram. He is so removed from an unnamed matter that he knows nothing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-24

Senator Lodge appreciated Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude towards Senator Winthrop Murray Crane during the recent campaign in Massachusetts. Lodge did not know beforehand that Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner was going to publish letters critical of Roosevelt and would have tried to stop Gardner if he had known.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-01

Only Representative Longworth, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge knew of Senator Lodge’s letter regarding Senator Crane. Since the Massachusetts campaign Representative Gardner has only contacted Lodge to request that he make no public statement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-02