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Frank Basil Tracy informs Theodore Roosevelt the New England Gas & Coke Company matter “is almost ancient history” and the Transcript would not have advertised anything that was “shady,” even if it was brought about by a reputable citizen such as Henry Melville Whitney.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-12
Frank Basil Tracy thanks Theodore Roosevelt for answering his telegram regarding Winthrop Murray Crane. Tracy heard from multiple sources that Crane may have done an “about-face”, but knew Roosevelt would answer him truthfully. Tracy hopes to see Roosevelt again.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-01
Frank Basil Tracy asks Theodore Roosevelt, in confidence, to confirm whether Winthrop Murray Crane offered Roosevelt his support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-27
Frank Basil Tracy wants to see Theodore Roosevelt during his brief visit to New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-13
Frank Basil Tracy shares a page from the Boston Evening Transcript with Colonel Roosevelt that he thinks Roosevelt will be interested in. Tracy tells Roosevelt of the Republican campaign in Massachusetts and feels they are making a mistake by pushing workingmen to vote out of fear for their jobs because of tariffs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Frank Basil Tracy informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has found limited information on Perley B. Doe and no substance to his claim that The New England Gas and Coke Company was fake. Tracy states that the Boston Evening Transcript does not use advertising columns to attack people like other papers do.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-12
Frank Basil Tracy of the Boston Evening Transcript asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would write a tribute to the recently deceased Judge Francis C. Lowell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-06
Frank Basil Tracy sends Theodore Roosevelt an interesting enclosure and wants to know if he has it right.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-24
Frank Basil Tracy informs Theodore Roosevelt that the man who wrote about the Roosevelt-Loeb-Taft combination says he got the information directly from William Loeb. Tracy wants Roosevelt’s thoughts on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-06
Frank Basil Tracy wants the facts regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s alleged interest in the “Taft boom” and encloses a dispatch, editorial, and clipping on the matter. He regrets Roosevelt cannot listen to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech that night, especially as he cannot see how Lodge will be defeated. Tracy regards Henry M. Whitney as “about as rotten a man as there is in the State of Massachusetts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-03