Typed

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-05

Creator(s)

Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Montagu White is glad that Frederick Courteney Selous is answering Governor Roosevelt’s questions about “the South African difficulty.” White believes that American public opinion is growing in favor of the Boers, and that those who wish to preserve the special friendship with Great Britain should push for peace in order to prevent anti-British feeling. White thinks that if the Boers lose their independence, Britain will lose South Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-06

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-12

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-03-15

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Secretary of the Navy Long tries to discourage Assistant Secretary Roosevelt from resigning from his post.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-07

Frederick A. Stokes hopes that Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt considers publishing an account of his experiences in the Spanish-American War with the Stokes Publishing Company. Stokes assures Roosevelt that they will publish on Roosevelt’s terms and refers Roosevelt to Lieutenant Peary as a reference for the company. Stokes also mentions a few of the other writers who they have published, and asks that Roosevelt write him back while acknowledging how busy Roosevelt is with war work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-07

John Addison Porter thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and wishes him success in his “new and important undertaking.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-09

Assistant Adjutant General Schwan orders Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry to go to San Antonio, Texas, and report to Colonel Leonard Wood, the commander of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. Schwan does so on the orders of Secretary of War R. A. Alger and Major General Nelson Appleton Miles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-11

Houghton Mifflin Company requests an update on Theodore Roosevelt’s revisions of his books Gouverneur Morris and Thomas H. Benton. The printers are almost out of copies of those articles and they are anxious to get the new editions, even if that means the introductions Roosevelt proposed are not quite ready yet. They hope Roosevelt can notify them of the status before he travels west with the Army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-12

John Addison Porter acknowledges to Max Schiemangk receipt of his letter addressed to President William McKinley. The letter tenders the services of a regiment of German soldiers, and has been forwarded to Secretary of War Russell A. Alger for consideration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-13

Houghton, Mifflin and Company thanks Assistant Secretary of the Navy Allen for his letter, which has led to the discovery of the prefaces of two biographies written by Theodore Roosevelt: Thomas Hart Benton and Gouvernor Morris. The prefaces had previously gone to the printers, who failed to report that they had received them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-16

Secretary of War Taft reports to President Roosevelt on labor negotiations with railroad employees working on the Panama Canal and isthmian railroad, touching on topics including pay schedules, sick pay, and overtime compensation. Taft recommends keeping the compensation and benefits package with which the workers were first recruited, but disagrees with some of their newer demands. Conditions are improving at the canal, including better living quarters, a lower rate of disease among workers, increased amusement options, and travel to the United States becoming easier. Taft attaches an account of the relevant hearings with labor and committee men.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-07

Examiner Finch reports to Attorney General Griggs on charges made by former Deputy Marshal Samuel C. Samuels against United States Marshal for Alabama Leander J. Bryan and his deputies. Finch finds that on a prisoner transport, Ernest H. E. Warren used reduced rail fares instead of first class and pocketed the extra money. When Samuels reported the fraud, he was dismissed and replaced by a Deputy Marshal who was complicit in the fraud. Finch also finds that over $600 had been deposited in the accounts of Ernest H. E. Warren’s real estate firm, Warren & Stuart. Warren was the Marshal’s son-in-law. Finch recommends the immediate dismissal of the Marshal and the Deputy Marshals who participated in the fraud.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-25

The dispatch, which was printed in a variety of Associated Press newspapers on May 30 and May 31, 1898, reveals that American warships have located and trapped the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The Americans have also captured a coal ship meant for the Spanish fleet. The dispatch also reports that the temperature is 110 degrees in the shade, and that the American warships involved include the Brooklyn, Texas, Massachusetts, Iowa, Marblehead, and Vixen.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-05-29

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-05

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

Rough Rider Dillwyn M. Bell writes to Judge Thomas about the heroism of his son John R. Thomas, who is also a Rough Rider. Thomas fought bravely even after he was wounded. Bell tells Thomas that he is now the father of the whole regiment, and that he would like to see him in Chicago when he is back from Cuba.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-07-30

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-05

Creator(s)

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Recipient

Chaffee, Adna Romanza, 1842-1914

George Bird Grinnell has read with great pleasure Theodore Roosevelt’s article on the Rough Riders in the February Scribners. The article is “very vivid and full of life.” The work done by the Rough Riders “will be remembered long after most of us are under the ground.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-02-16

Governor Roosevelt’s military secretary confirms receipt of Low’s letter while Roosevelt is on his annual vacation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-08-01

James Franklin Bell and George F. Becker provide their opinion on the progress of the Philippine-American War to Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana. Bell and Becker are dismissive of Filipino independence and advocate “vigorous military action” to “conquer the Insurgent forces.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1899-08-01