Dictated

Caspar Whitney asks that an attached letter be shown to President Roosevelt and then returned.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-30

Senator Platt suggests that President Roosevelt meet with Representative Long to ascertain the views of the Ways and Means Committee regarding Cuban reciprocity.  Platt believes that the Committee can be persuaded towards Roosevelt’s view.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-03

Justice Davy requests that James L. Hodges, Davy’s brother-in-law, be allowed to keep his position as Assayer of the Mint at Denver, Colorado. There has been some “slight opposition” to Hodges retaining the post.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-30

To ease his conscience, William Lee Howard confesses to eating the “wine and delicacies” that President Roosevelt brought to Charles Ware while Ware was severely ill during the early 1880s.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-10

Senator McLaurin requests Representative Elliott’s help to secure funding for the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition by pushing the necessary legislation through the House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-03

Caspar Whitney suggests that photographs of the animals and a map showing the distribution of the deer family be added to President Roosevelt’s deer book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-21

Mary Augusta Wallihan asks if it would be proper to include the photographs of herself and A. G. Wallihan in their book, The Wallihans’ Camera Shots at Big Game. Wallihan hopes to include the photographs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-22

Wilbur Fisk Wakeman summarizes the interview he had with Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage in hopes of finding out why he is being removed from the office of appraiser. Wakeman details the numerous issues he resolved, but Gage insists that the matter is now in the hands of President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-25

Hugh Gordon Miller supports the Roosevelt administration and is concerned about the chaotic state of the Republican Party in the South. He believes that young men will be Roosevelt’s best support in the South and he would like to help the party. Miller encloses a book of Lincoln Dinner speeches, one given by himself, and asks Curtis Guild to forward the book to Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-11

Edwin A. Hartshorn congratulates President Roosevelt for the success of the “Fusion ticket” in New York elections. He credits Roosevelt’s history in New York politics for the “victory for good government.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-06

Nathaniel T. Green encloses the Saunders manuscript as requested by President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-25

During the last campaign, William H. Ellis used a quote attributed to President Roosevelt during his time in the New York State Assembly, to the effect that a public official who considers his prospects in the next election before casting a vote is “an enemy to his country” and does not deserve the confidence of his constituents. Ellis learned of the quote from Louis Church, who served with Roosevelt in the Assembly and later became governor of Dakota Territory. Ellis asks Roosevelt to confirm whether he made the statement in a speech to the Assembly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-04

Senator Clark recommends the appointment of Albert D. Elliot as secretary of Puerto Rico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-30

Hugh Gordon Miller compliments Vice President Roosevelt on his conduct after the attempted assassination of President McKinley. Democrats and southerners have joined the praise for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-11

E. Mont Reily’s Roosevelt Club No. 1 has over two thousand members. Everyone was shocked by the attempted assassination of President McKinley but Roosevelt’s bearing during the crisis has increased his political support.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-11

C. N. Comstock regrets that Vice President Roosevelt had to turn down J. W. Ellis’s invitation to speak in Albany, Missouri. Comstock re-invites Roosevelt to speak on a day of his choosing. He believes a visit from Roosevelt would be very helpful to the Republican Party in Missouri.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-29

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-05-28

Creator(s)

Atkinson, Fred W. (Fred Washington), 1865-1941

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919