Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-12-09

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-12-03

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-10

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Secretary of State Root encloses a dispatch from Minister William Woodville Rockhill of a translated note from Prince Ching regarding the Chinese government’s attitude towards the boycott of American products.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-05

Secretary of State Root forwards to President Roosevelt a copy of a letter he sent to the French Ambassador about the arrest of three French citizens in Puerto Rico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-27

Secretary of State Root informs President Roosevelt that he will visit this evening after all. Root has prepared a telegram to San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Root. If Roosevelt approves it, Root asks that Roosevelt have the White House operator send it. Root suggests that he and Roosevelt could write a telegram to send to the Governor of California James Norris Gillett about the threat of discrimination against Japanese students in California school. Root expresses his frustration, writing “Did you ever see such idiots?”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-10

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a copy of an interview which Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer did with Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, on the Russian New Year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-04

Secretary of State Root tells President Roosevelt that the letter from George Kennan should be read aloud at their next meeting with the Special Ambassadors from California.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-02

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a copy of a telegram from the Queen Consort of Portugal.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-01

Secretary of State Root thinks it would be better to have Flint in tomorrow. Root will stop by in the morning unless President Roosevelt contacts him this evening. He sent Roosevelt’s letter to Roosevelt’s secretary with only the suggestion of changing one word. Otherwise, the letter is good and hopefully will go out tonight.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-10

Secretary of State Root informs William Loeb that the Department of State sent a telegram to the new Shah of Iran expressing condolences for the death of the previous Shah.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-09

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a copy of a dispatch from Ambassador Charles S. Francis reporting an interview that Baron Hengelmüller von Hengervár did with the Neue Freie Presse in Vienna.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-03

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt a letter from Francis March Hatch of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association in which Hatch writes that the Hawaiian Islands should be left out of any effort to exclude Japanese laborers from the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-19

Secretary of State Elihu Root encloses a dispatch from the American Minister at Panama that officially replies to the charges recently made by the Liberal Party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-14

Secretary of State Root sends Ambassador Thompson a telegram about failing levees as part of a dam project on the Colorado River; Root does not believe that Mexico will take the necessary action to fix the levees, so urges Thompson to ask discreetly whether the United States might enter Mexican territory to make the repairs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-11

Elihu Root is “completely broken” by the death of Secretary of State John Hay. Root sends his condolences to President Roosevelt as he knows the affection the two men had for each other.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-01

Elihu Root writes to President Roosevelt from the train to Philadelphia where he is going to consult with Mayor John Weaver. Root thinks Roosevelt’s letter to Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton is “bully” and only has one or two verbal suggestions to offer. Clarence Winthrop Bowen came to visit Root and ask for “merciful treatment” for his brother, Herbert Wolcott Bowen, who is embroiled in a libel case with Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-16

Elihu Root discusses the measures being taken to restructure the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, including the formation of a board of trustees and the involvement of former United States president Grover Cleveland.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-12

Elihu Root wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas. He hopes Roosevelt will “go slow” on an unspecified “license proposition.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-24

Elihu Root authorizes Charles Holland Duell to tell President Roosevelt that Root supports appointing Duell to the bench of the Court of Appeals.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-29