Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-09-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

William Emlen Roosevelt informs President Roosevelt, his cousin, that he has received a favorable judgment in a case involving his right to a dock that was in conflict with Oyster Bay’s construction of a highway. He plans to join many other people in applying for a grant of land extending from the shoreline from the state and asks the President if he would like him to arrange the same for him. William Roosevelt mentions his family’s summer travel plans.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt writes to Theodore Roosevelt that his telegraph company received the license they signed the other day. Roosevelt also writes that nobody has escaped the shrinkage in the value of property and he brings up the idea of a national incorporation of railroads.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt that he has taken the money inherited from Uncle Corneel and sent it to be invested in his principal account. Roosevelt also tells the president that his financial affairs are not looking good.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt writes about a box of flowers that was wrongly delivered in the Roosevelt Hospital. Roosevelt will be coming to Washington, D.C., to see Secretary of War Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt is glad that Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering and understands the anxiety President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt suffer. He wants to visit Washington, D.C., to talk about his dispute with a treasury official and the Harriman incident. Christine Roosevelt is nervous about the idea of William staying where a person has diphtheria, so he may sleep at his in-laws to calm her. He visited Russell in the hospital. The superintendent of Roosevelt Hospital is dying. William hoped that spring was arriving, but a recent snow storm crushed his hopes of riding.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt that he and Edith have been on his mind since hearing of Archibald B. Roosevelt’s sickness. He has enclosed a survey of Cove Neck as promised, and despite several errors, the layout is “very interesting” for them to have. He tells Roosevelt of the dire situation on Wall Street and the effect that the panic has had on himself and his colleagues. He discusses his visit from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and the dispatch he received from his son George Emlen Roosevelt, who was remorseful not speaking to Roosevelt when he was visiting Harvard. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt the deed to the property. William will finish up the details of the transaction after the survey of Cove Neck.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt writes to President Roosevelt arguing the right of the U.S. to control all cable landing rights and the establishment of wireless stations on the coast of Panama.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt writes President Roosevelt about annoyances with the Oyster Bay government. He concludes with an update on the family as they get ready for the holidays.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt explains to President Roosevelt that they have decided to lay the cable and would like to have it finished before hurricane season. Laying this cable is in line with the War Department’s vision for better communication between the Panama Canal and Washington D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt encloses an article for President Roosevelt and underscores the importance of finishing construction of the Panama Canal during Roosevelt’s term.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for his actions on “the Peruvian matter” and informs him of the death of Henry Norris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt encloses a copy of a letter from James Alexander Scrymser to Secretary of State John Hay. He does not believe the American government should subsidize foreign cables, but it is important to sustain communication with Central and South America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt reminds President Roosevelt that he has met William Henry Porter, president of the Chemical National Bank, on previous occasions. Porter plans to ask the president to attend the New York Bankers’ Dinner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt encloses a letter which a friend of his asked him to share with President Roosevelt, presumably about political appointments. He wonders how the president attends to so many matters in the course of his work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt gives President Roosevelt his advice on selecting a new Secretary of the Treasury. He tells the president that jealousy among businessmen might undermine their impartiality when offering advice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt a second congratulatory message now that they know how much of a triumph Roosevelt’s electoral win was. He reflects on what their fathers, Theodore Roosevelt and James Alfred Roosevelt, would have thought of such an outcome. William Emlen Roosevelt approves of the president’s statement that he will not seek a third term, and believes it will do much good.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt apologizes for the tardy response, but has been working with his son, George Emlen Roosevelt, to think of suggestions for ways to help Theodore Roosevelt’s friend. Unfortunately, they have been unable to do so, and Roosevelt lays out some of the difficulties with the problem. He hopes the hot weather changes soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

William Emlen Roosevelt sends Theodore Roosevelt a paper about an annual payment for Washburn. He asks Roosevelt to sign and send it to Edward M. Townsend.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930