Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-01-18

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

Ambassador Storer wrote to President Roosevelt acknowledging that President Roosevelt had asked him to remain as ambassador to Vienna. As was customary after an election Ambassador Storer, in a previous letter, had offered his resignation after the 1904 election to Roosevelt. Roosevelt, in turn, asked Storer to continue in his post for Roosevelt’s second term.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-23

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer is glad that he is able to speak “the English tongue” with H. Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador to Spain. He might oppose the British Empire but can “love and admire an Englishman and gentleman.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer tells Francis Augustus MacNutt that the report concerning his Washington club has not reached him nor his wife, Maria Longworth Storer. Mrs. Storer heard of the “manner and reason” of MacNutt’s resignation from the civil service from a “sound authority” who named another authority on the subject when questioned; these were President Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Storer believed the report to have come from Archibald Loudon Snowden or Mr. Griggs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-01

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer writes to President Roosevelt asking him to consider the facts, which Storer has enclosed as a statement of points, regarding his dismissal from diplomatic service. The dismissal was based on the grounds that both Storer’s conduct, in his capacity as an American ambassador, and his wife Maria Longworth Storer’s conduct in Rome, blurred the lines of public office and personal opinion regarding the promotion of Archbishop John Ireland to Cardinal. Storer defends his actions, including full and partial correspondence between those chiefly involved, to prove that he was acting in his public capacity at the request of President Roosevelt, which Roosevelt now denies. Storer is aggrieved that he was dismissed before his letter of resignation could have reached Washington since he was on leave in Egypt at the time he received Roosevelt’s request for his resignation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-18

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

B. Storer, former Minister to Spain, endeavors to fully and frankly answer Francis Augustus MacNutt’s inquiry. He reports that President Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge communicated the manner and reason for Macnutt’s departure from the diplomatic service in 1892 or 1893. Storer assumed it to be “absolutely sound authority” as Roosevelt and Lodge spoke of it openly and in positives terms. He believes Minister to Spain Archibald Loudon Snowden initially reported on MacNutt’s departure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-01

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer is sorry to have to “turn a cold shoulder” on so ardent a supporter of President Roosevelt as Marcus Braun, but Storer does not believe that Braun can be of use to the United States Department of Commerce in Hungary. Braun, against Storer’s advice and wishes, gave inflammatory interviews to Hungarian newspapers which were counterproductive to Storer’s diplomatic mission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-24

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer asks William Loeb to deliver the enclosed message to President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-24

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Minister to Austria-Hungary Storer asks if President Roosevelt will be home on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 14. A handwritten note says “ask him to spend Wednesday night.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-10

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer informs President Roosevelt that he will not try to see him until Roosevelt returns to Oyster Bay, New York. Storer compliments Roosevelt on his speech.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-29

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador to Austria Storer informs President Roosevelt that Francis Augustus MacNutt has denied being dismissed from the American diplomatic and consular service. Although MacNutt was dismissed from the Vatican due to his misdemeanors, he wants to be reinstated there. Storer asks Roosevelt to look into the papers concerning MacNutt’s dismissal and wonders if Secretary of State Elihu Root has known about MacNutt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer apologizes for his previous letter and provides background concerning the dismissal of Consul General Carlton Bailey Hurst at Vienna.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-16

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer discusses the Catholic Church hierarchy’s opposition to the Republican party. Storer also discusses his involvement in introducing Carlton Bailey Hurst to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna after he was removed from his position as Consul General in Vienna. Storer cautioned that if the removal was due to charges made by Charles V. Herdliska, Secretary of the Vienna legation, such charges were untrustworthy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-10

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary Bellamy Storer informs President Roosevelt of a recent visit by King of the Belgians Léopold II. Storer discusses tensions in the Congo between the British and Belgian governments and European colonization in the Congo, referencing editorials in The Times, the Treaty of Berlin, the French explorer Pierre Savorgnon de Brazza, and rumors of Belgian atrocities in Congo, using Belgian explorer Henry M. Stanley as an exemplar.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-22

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer protests against the removal of Consul General Carlton Bailey Hurst and is concerned that the removal was made on the basis of false charges.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-09

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer protests against the removal of Consul General Carlton Bailey Hurst, and is concerned that the removal was made on the basis of false charges.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-09

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer finds the Secretary of the Legation in Madrid to be incompetent and asks President Roosevelt to replace him. Storer has had serious eye problems and the secretary has not even attempted to see him or ask for instructions. Storer feels he has done all the secretary’s work for some time, and in justice, he asks that someone new be sent to take his place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-30

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer forwards to President Roosevelt a letter from Leopold Markbreit, the editor of a German-American newspaper called the Volksblatt. Storer explains that Markbreit does not expect a negative reaction from German Americans if Storer were to be selected as ambassador to Germany.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-03

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Ambassador Storer supports the negotiations in Rome and hopes that once the treaty is complete he can leave Madrid. Storer has read President Roosevelt’s message and the Schley decision. He apologizes for his letters of “criticism and complaint.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-18

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922

Bellamy Storer writes in commendation of Lieutenant Floyd W. Harris of the 4th Calvary, who recently departed Brussels. Harris performed his duties in an admirable manner, the ministers and high officials of the Belgian government have a high regard for him, and “the King himself spoke very kindly of him” and hopes for his return.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-08-05

Creator(s)

Storer, B. (Bellamy), 1847-1922