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Thomas E. Watson praises Police Commissioner Roosevelt for a recent article in the Review of Reviews which gave him “good reason to congratulate myself for having written you.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-01-04
This document contains the text of the preamble and fifteen articles of the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty, also known as the Olney-Pauncefote Treaty, which was ultimately rejected by the U.S. Senate and therefore never went into effect. The treaty states that the governments of the United States and Great Britain agree to submit to arbitration in all matters of difference between them that cannot be negotiated diplomatically. The documents details related to the arbitration process, and the treaty’s duration and ratification.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-01-11
Commissioner Roosevelt has paid $323.30 for taxes due to the town of Oyster Bay, New York, on real property assessed at $15,000 and personal property assessed at $2,000.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-01-23
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-02-15
Transcript of speeches at the Democratic National Convention by August Belmont, chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Governor Horatio Seymour, president of the convention; and William Bigler, temporary chairman of the convention.
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1864-08-29
Belmont, August, 1813-1890; Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886; Bigler, William, 1814-1880
The Lord’s Prayer in English, French, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian, and Greek; printed for the School of John MacMullen, by John F. Trow.
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1864
President Lincoln thanks Thurlow Weed for his letter of appreciation on Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
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1865-03-15
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included blue points, broiled potatoes, duck, potato salad, and Camembert. Theodore Roosevelt paid eleven dollars and thirty cents for the meal.
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1898-04-04
Details of William C. Allen’s military service during the Civil War, including his enlistment, capture and imprisonment, release through exchange, return to service, and eventual discharge.
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1865-06-20
Secretary of State Seward recounts to the United States Minister to Colombia, Allan A. Burton, the details of an incident in Panama regarding the burial of the United States Consul Alexander McKee. Embarkation of U.S. naval troops for the funeral without prior permission by the president of the state of Panama raised questions of the rights of the U.S. in the region. On review of the facts, Seward concluded that no explanation or guarantees regarding future conduct was warranted by the U.S. government.
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1866-04-30
New York Supreme Court naturalization folder insert explaining the contents and instructing prospective American citizens on the services and location of Chief Naturalization Examiner Cornelius O’Connor Cowely’s office.
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1910-1920
United States Minister to Colombia Peter John Sullivan responds to a request from Colombia’s Secretary of the Interior and Foreign Relations Carlos Martín, for communications from his predecessor regarding the “supposed pretended separation” of Panama from the Colombian Union.
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1867-09-12
Goldwin Smith defends the exportation of arms to France by countries not involved in the conflict between France and Germany. This transcript of the letter was taken from Goldwin Smith’s Correspondence, edited by Arnold Haultain.
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1870-11-15
Official appointment by the state of Georgia of Seth H. McGee to the Lumpkin County Board of Education. Document is signed by Governor Rufus B. Bullock.
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1871-01-30
Henry Fairfield Osborn records various species of birds observed, heard, and shot.
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1878
Invitation to the marriage of Alice Hathaway Lee to Theodore Roosevelt on October 27, 1880, with the calling cards of the bride’s parents and of the bride and groom.
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1880-10
Essay describing a December duck-hunting outing on Long Island Sound by Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Elliott. The brothers were caught in a snowstorm before returning home from the hunt.
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1881-03
Bishop Gillespie sends a book to John P. Nourse, along with a paper explaining the book. In a note at the end, Nourse explains to President Roosevelt, to whom he forwards the book and paper, that Gillespie was the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Western Michigan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1881-05-16
Official appointment of Wallace S. Weeks as Notary Public for the state of Florida, signed by Governor William D. Bloxham.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1881-06-29
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt’s bill for a meal at the Metropolitan Club Restaurant shows that he ordered mutton, toast, and a glass of milk for 45 cents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-04-15