Dictated

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-07-22

Creator(s)

Shaw, C. P.

Recipient

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-07-18

Creator(s)

Converse, A. D.

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-06-03

Creator(s)

Dingley, Frank Lambert, 1840-1918

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-31

Creator(s)

Brown, Linus B.

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Charles J. Bonaparte invites Theodore Roosevelt to Baltimore to address a conference put on by the Henry Watson’s Children’s Aid Society, as well as to speak to students at Johns Hopkins University.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-01-06

Caspar Whitney is sorry that President Roosevelt “shooed off” Alexander Lambert from writing a study of him in the field. Lambert gave Whitney a couple photographs of Roosevelt, one of which will be printed in Collier’s Weekly. The other one shows Roosevelt sitting in the door of a cabin with a dog on his lap, which is Whitney’s favorite photograph of Roosevelt, and he prizes it highly. Whitney will send Roosevelt the photographs by express, and asks that Roosevelt autograph and return them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-11

Daniel W. Baker got all the presentments he asked for in President Roosevelt’s libel suit against newspaper publishers. The Grand Jury even decided to prosecute Joseph Pulitzer. Attorney General Bonaparte hopes to keep this news secret for a few days, so they can prepare the indictments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-30

Caspar Whitney understands President Roosevelt’s decision to not write a feature about his upcoming safari, and resolved that he will not have anyone else write it. Whitney instead suggests that Collier’s publish an article on the guns Roosevelt will be taking with him to Africa and proposes Horace Kephart, an avid sportsman himself, to write it. However, if Roosevelt has another author in mind, Whitney will be glad for him to write it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-14

As requested by Senator Albert J. Hopkins, Attorney General Bonaparte has drafted a memorandum regarding his reasons for not complying with the Senate’s resolution on the Tennessee Coal and Iron transaction. Bonaparte would like President Roosevelt’s advice on whether to pass the memorandum on to Hopkins or to simply refer him to Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-08

This memorandum details that David Jayne Hill was considered ill-suited for a government position, specifically due to making a bad impression on Prince Henry of Prussia.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908

D. T. Abercrombie asks President Roosevelt what he thought about some samples of canvas that the David T. Abercrombie Company sent to him. The material, Abercrombie says, is the best material for tents, but he would like to have Roosevelt’s opinion on it, as the company hopes to sell him a tent for his African safari and would like to meet his specifications. Abercrombie sends Roosevelt more samples of material, as well as a full product catalog under separate cover.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-02

Ezra H. Fitch, of Abercrombie & Fitch, is sorry that President Roosevelt felt offended that the company had published some correspondence between Roosevelt and the company. Fitch points out that the company had avoided making direct reference to any purchase made by Roosevelt, and had not considered that publishing a question from the president would be seen as disrespectful. Fitch assures William Loeb that the situation will be corrected as best as they can in order to respect Roosevelt’s wishes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-02

Thomas Z. Lee encloses the receipt for President Roosevelt’s annual dues to the American-Irish Historical Society. The society hopes that Roosevelt will attend their annual meeting, which will be held in Washington in January.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-26

Through Alexander Lambert, the David T. Abercrombie Company has outfitted many of President Roosevelt’s hunting trips. D. T. Abercrombie assumes Roosevelt is interested in the Green Willesden duck, the only material suitable for Africa, and encloses a sample of the material. Additionally, Abercrombie sends the company’s complete catalog and avows that the company makes goods equal to those produced in London.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-25

William H. Taft has enclosed a copy of a letter he sent to William Nelson Cromwell, and hopes President Roosevelt will approve of the action he took.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

For the public good, Cuban newspaper editors implore Provisional Governor Magoon to continue the public works program.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-18

Attorney General Bonaparte updates President Roosevelt on a variety of cases the Administration has in courts. First, Civil Service Commissioner Alford Warriner Cooley is reluctant to travel to Colorado or Oregon because two cases relating to civil service law will be tried in the Supreme Court soon. Second, Bonaparte has sent a report about a scandal involving New Mexico judge Daniel Hugh McMillan to New Mexico, as the report damages only McMillan. Bonaparte has also arranged for Thomas Carl Spelling and L. Allison Wilmer to prepare and conduct cases against coal-carrying roads under the Hepburn Act. Finally, Bonaparte encloses a communication relating to matters regarding the Alaska Syndicate and the Morgan-Guggenheim interests in Alaska. A dispute between Senator Simon Guggenheim and Governor Wilford B. Hoggatt over land rights of railroads has led to bloodshed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-08

Attorney General Bonaparte relays his tentative conclusions to President Roosevelt regarding several potential appointees to permanent federal marshal, attorney, and judiciary positions in the “embryonic State” of Oklahoma (which became a state on November 16, 1907).

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-31

Secretary of War Taft notifies President Roosevelt of his warm reception in Shanghai and feels that foreign relations with China are exceptionally friendly, particularly since the Chinese regime fears greater incursions from countries like Japan, Russia, and England. Taft has heard reports that Cixi, Empress dowager of China, may soon abdicate and anticipates a succession crisis. Taft is enclosing a copy of a speech he made in Shanghai and is now preparing for a speech he will give in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-10

Charles William Anderson has learned that New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes is helping Charles W. Farnham seek employment with the state. Farnham has given Anderson information about Hughes’s candidacy for the presidency. In a postscript, Anderson adds that Farnham has secured a job working for the New York Public Service Commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-21