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John St. Loe Strachey commends President Roosevelt on his recent speech. Strachey’s family still grieves for his son, Thomas C. Strachey, and is grateful for Roosevelt’s kindness. Strachey describes his disappointment in finding a strong socialist majority among the audience at his lecture on socialism’s destructive influence on the family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-26
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1907-03-25
Strachey, John St. Loe, 1860-1927
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
John St. Loe Strachey is sending President Roosevelt two books for which he wrote the introductions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-13
John St. Loe Strachey relays to President Roosevelt an account of his trip to France and Germany. He and his wife visited Ambassador Charlemagne Tower and his wife in Berlin as well as Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick and his wife in Paris. Strachey believes that Chancellor Bernard Fürst von Bülow will be defeated in his reelection bid and that the Emperor was also held in disfavor by the German people. Strachey is concerned about the warlike nature of the Germans. He relays his thoughts on some of the French politicians and theologians whom he met; he found the French people and politicians generally to be pacifistic.
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1907-02-11
President Roosevelt handled the Bellamy Storer affair exactly as John St. Loe Strachey expected. Strachey hopes that the Americans are able to make a model treaty with the Japanese, as he believes that England may confront similar issues soon. Strachey and his wife are traveling to Berlin to visit friends and he asks for a letter of introduction to Ambassador Charlemagne Tower. Strachey also asks Roosevelt what he thought about his recent article in the Spectator about the proposal to create representative government in India. In a handwritten postscript, Strachey mentions that he received a “capital letter” from General Leonard Wood, and he hopes to meet Wood in the United States.
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1906-12-31
John St. Loe Strachey congratulates President Roosevelt on the recent election results. Strachey published an article about the election in the Spectator. He is now working on an article about murder in the United States. Strachey was impressed by Roosevelt’s recent comments on social class conflicts. Strachey sees a strong judiciary as the key element in fighting corrupt capitalism.
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1904-11-24
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1911-11-21
Strachey, John St. Loe, 1860-1927
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
John St. Loe Strachey is annoyed with the article’s misrepresentation of Theodore Roosevelt’s policy on arbitration treaties that appeared in the Spectator while he was on holiday and apologizes for it. Strachey approves of a general arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States but not general treaties with the world at large. He recently stayed with Andrew Carnegie and found his illusions about arbitration “a positive nightmare.”
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1911-10-27
John St. Loe Strachey is pleased that Theodore Roosevelt liked the review of his book that was published in the Spectator. The author is John Buchan, who is a promising young man who married well. Strachey provides Roosevelt with a biography of Buchan.
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1911-02-02
John St. Loe Strachey approves of President Roosevelt’s recent article on ex-presidents, and opines that if Roosevelt were the only man to ever become an ex-president, then there would be no worry, but that people have to consider normal men rather than only Roosevelt. If the United States were to retain the services of ex-presidents by paying them, it would forestall any chance that an ex-president would take a job that seems unsuitable for an ex-president. Strachey extended his earlier invitation to Roosevelt not to set a definite date to visit, but merely to make sure that Roosevelt’s calendar did not fill up. Recent accusations against Roosevelt in newspapers by Joseph Pulitzer disgust Strachey, and he hopes that Roosevelt’s sister and brother-in-law, Corinne and Douglas Robinson, have not been worried by the attack.
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1908-12-19
John St. Loe Strachey is pleased that President Roosevelt liked his “little book,” and agrees with Roosevelt’s assessment that he should have applied Proverbs 29:12 to the people as well as rulers. He congratulates Roosevelt on president-elect William H. Taft’s victory. He also hopes that when Roosevelt is in England following the Romanes Lecture, he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will have time to spend a weekend at his house in Surrey.
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1908-11-17
John St. Loe Strachey sends President Roosevelt a book that he has just published. He asks Roosevelt to pay special attention to the passage from Ecclesiasticus in the introduction. Strachey defends the passage as not anti-democratic, and he would like to know whether or not Roosevelt agrees. He notes that Evelyn Baring Cromer agrees with him, and Strachey, Cromer, and Roosevelt often agree on political ethics.
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1908-10-27
John St. Loe Strachey, editor of The Spectator, thanks President Roosevelt for the “little speech on socialism,” and asks for permission to publish it. Strachey’s book is circulating, though the socialist publications have a wider audience, a situation he hopes to remedy by switching from a defensive to an offensive strategy.
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1908-07-23
John St. Loe Strachey sends President Roosevelt a copy of his book with special binding. He is pleased that the book has been successful thus far.
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1908-07-02
John St. Loe Strachey thanks President Roosevelt for sending him the two books, which he will read when he is able to. Strachey also congratulates Roosevelt on the nomination of Secretary of War William H. Taft to be the Republican candidate for President. The journalist Edward Dicey is not someone who has very much influence, or who Strachey thinks very highly of. Strachey hopes that Roosevelt might be able to visit England on his way to his African safari. He also thanks Roosevelt for letting him see the letter that Roosevelt wrote to Lincoln Steffens.
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1908-06-22
John St. Loe Strachey was pleased to hear from Andrew Carnegie that President Roosevelt is just as healthy as when he took office. Strachey believes this proves that hard work never hurt anyone, as long as they get enough exercise and sleep. Strachey reports on exercises conducted in his field and near his home by the Irish Guard, and concludes that soldiers are happier when they are worked hard.
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1908-06-03
John St. Loe Strachey has sent President Roosevelt a copy of a paper he will be reading at the Pan-Anglican Congress on the ethics of journalism.
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1908-03-31
John St. Loe Strachey, editor of The Spectator, thanks President Roosevelt for granting him permission to dedicate his book to Roosevelt. Strachey says that the unemployed bill was “an act of madness” and is happy to report that the government ended up condemning it. It took the threat of Member of Parliament John Burns’s resignation to stop support of the bill. Strachey says that Burns is one of the “very few true Conservatives left in the country” and that socialism is a danger in England unlike in the United States.
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1908-03-27
John St. Loe Strachey, editor of The Spectator, asks President Roosevelt if he can dedicate an upcoming pamphlet to Roosevelt, a collection of letters printed in The Spectator on the dangers of socialism. By dedicating the pamphlet to Roosevelt, Strachey hopes to show people that enemies of socialism are not de facto in favor of unrestrained capitalism, as Roosevelt occupies a position between both extremes. Strachey thanks Roosevelt for a message Roosevelt sent through Arthur Hamilton Lee, and says that A. Maurice Low is a disgrace to journalism. He plans to send Roosevelt a paper that will be read at the Pan-Anglican Church Congress on the Ethics of Journalism.
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1908-03-04
John St. Loe Strachey agrees with President Roosevelt’s characterization of William Randolph Hearst as a dangerous man. He also thinks that Roosevelt is right about William Jennings Bryan as a “kindly example of the Jefferson type.” Strachey discusses the status of antitrust law in the British Parliament.
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1906-11-06