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Receipt from a meal at the Metropolitan Club Restaurant in which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt ordered two pork chops, two orders of potatoes, four orders of strawberries, two glasses of milk, and one beer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-04-16
“I will be as good as I can,” Congressman Reed states, presumably in response to a prior remark from Commissioner Roosevelt, though he feels it will be a loss to the world should he suppress his views. Reed contemplates howling at the constellations in frustration and jokingly threatens to head to the North Pole. He closes with a drawing of a thermometer with the initials “B.H.” (for President Benjamin Harrison) at the base, far below 0 degrees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1892-11-20
Edward Everett Hale kept Theodore Roosevelt’s speaking notes from a talk he gave at Fremont Temple. Hale does not want to send the notes to Roosevelt, as he fears he will never see them again, but if Roosevelt wants the notes to write out his speech, Hale will send them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1892-12-03
Sara Agnes Rice Pryor thanks Theodore Roosevelt for an article he wrote for the Cosmopolitan, in which he mentions Southern homes, poets, and authors.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1892-12-12
Carl Schurz has contacted President-Elect Grover Cleveland about Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt’s desire to meet with him. Based on Cleveland’s response, Schurz expresses his hope that Roosevelt will be retained in his position on the Civil Service Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-01-04
Transcript of a letter in which J. C. Chance recommends Herbert M. Seymour, who has held the position of Chief of the Property Division of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, as a man of “unusual ability in all clerical positions.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-02-04
A. T. Mahan thanks Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt for efforts made on his behalf (matter not disclosed within the letter). Mahan feels particularly fortunate to have had Roosevelt advocating for him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-03-26
An editorial on the upcoming 1908 United States presidential election describes the contest as “a battle of giants.” It confidently declares President Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican Party candidate. Roosevelt has built a strong “personal following.” The Democratic Party must be prepared.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-10
Noble E. Dawson writes a note to President Roosevelt on his business card, congratulating Roosevelt on appointing Eugene F. Ware as Pension Commissioner. Dawson encloses a note Ware sent him in 1893, transcribed on the back of an advertisement for Dawson’s services.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04
James Sullivan Clarkson proposes that the post offices in the larger cities be made branches of the National Post Office in Washington and indicates his wish that Roosevelt participate in national Republican Party affairs. Clarkson also discusses a postmasters’ bill submitted by Henry Cabot Lodge and criticizes how President Cleveland has dealt with the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-04-27
Hermann Speck von Sternburg thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his thoughtful Christmas gift and discusses hunting for antelope in Northern China. He describes his life in China and notes that he hopes to visit Japan and Korea in the fall, before returning home via the United States to deal with his affairs there next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-06-01
Brayton C. Ives takes the Northern Pacific Board to task for their laudatory remarks about Henry Villard on acceptance of his resignation as chairman of the board. Ives details the financial decline of the companies under Villard’s control. Ives would become president of Northern Pacific later that year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-08-03
Charles F. Ashley, the United States Indian Agent at Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency, recommends Herbert M. Seymour as a “young man of exemplary character and habits.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-08-16
Theodore Roosevelt speaks before an Irish gathering in Boston and calls the American Protective Association (A.P.A.), an anti-Catholic secret society, an “evil movement” in the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1893-11
J. W. Sleves compliments Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt on his books and inquires whether Roosevelt has ever heard of moose being hunted with dogs, as elk are hunted in Norway. He offers to take Roosevelt hunting if he wants to experience it, and he recommends the book Short Stalks by Edward North Buxton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1894-01-03
Receipt for $244.32 taxes paid by Theodore Roosevelt 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
1894-01-24
Hermann Speck von Sternburg discusses hunting and various guns, including the new Pieper revolver. He includes drawings to illustrate what he describes about the revolver.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1894-01-24
Pinckney Marcius-Simons writes President Cleveland to thank him for purchasing one of his paintings; the artist comments on the nature of his art as uniquely American, and mentions that Theodore Roosevelt also purchased one of his paintings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1894-03-08
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle responds to an inquiry by Theodore Roosevelt about an interview given by Mr. Cumming, an employee of the Treasury Department, to the Washington Post. Cumming gave the interview as a private citizen and believes the statements he made about the civil service to be true. Carlisle does not believe he can take action against him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1894-03-12
Robert Munro Ferguson writes that Anna Roosevelt will not come home (from London) until fall. Ferguson extends good wishes on the expected new addition to Roosevelt’s family and discusses the travels of Joseph Burr Tyrrell across northern Canada by canoe and on foot.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1894-03-17