Abbott, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Fraser), 1859-1933

President Roosevelt assures Lawrence F. Abbott that he has followed the course of the Outlook. Roosevelt believes Abbott is correct in thinking that bankers and businesses will eventually look at the course that Roosevelt currently advocates, in the way the railroads now view legislation they had previously opposed. Roosevelt encloses an address by Robert Mather of the Rock Island Railway, who had previously been an enemy of the rate bill. Roosevelt also thinks that Abbott will like his message to Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt cheers Winifred Buck Abbott for the birth of her son, Lyman Abbott. He comments that “[t]he pains of childbirth render all men the debtors of all women” and ranks mothers above solders. Roosevelt tells Lawrence F. Abbott that he regrets getting involved in the nature faker controversy, but explains that he finds it difficult to avoid work outside of the Presidency. He felt compelled to review poet Edwin Arlington Robinson for The Outlook because Robinson “merited more consideration” and to condemn naturalist William J. Long because “he is so impudent and so shameless an imposter.” Roosevelt encloses clippings of other’s opinions on Long.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is glad that the Anglican Bishop Charles Henry Brent is in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Outlook publisher Lawrence F. Abbott for the letter, and reiterates that in working to produce reform and reduce the size of the largest fortunes, he wants to set out explicit steps and avoid vague language. He also wants to make sure that it is clear that he does not encourage “what is wicked among the labor people,” referencing “the hundreds of murders perpetrated under the foulest and most infamous circumstances by the members of the Western Federation of Miners,” which he considers Big Bill Haywood and Charles H. Moyer guilty of. While it is possible to go too far in the enforcement of order, Roosevelt considers it worse to encourage crime.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Lawrence F. Abbott that he only writes to him and his father, Lyman Abbott, because he believes in The Outlook “with all [his] heart and soul.”  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt corrects and suggests changes to Lyman Abbott’s letter about which senators are holding the treaties up in committee.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt comments on false stories that have appeared in the press regarding executive spending. He defends the expansion of the White House as being necessary and the cost of the tennis court as trivial. There was no “personal naval review” that used public money and Roosevelt has used the government yachts, Mayflower and Sylph, sparingly. The yachts are also not exclusive to the president and are used by other government officials. Finally, entertainment at the White House is paid personally by Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt appreciated Lawrence F. Abbott’s letter and sent it to Secretary of War Elihu Root.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt’s enclosure to Lawrence F. Abbott regarding a letter Roosevelt wrote to Albert Shaw in response to the [New York] Post‘s view that Shaw was in on the “conspiracy.” This conspiracy is not further defined.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt enjoyed Lawrence F. Abbott’s editorial and wishes he had shown Abbott his message on the construction of the Panama canal. Roosevelt remarks that both he and Secretary of State Hay were unprepared for the revolt which occurred on November 2, 1903, which led to Panama’s declaration of independence from Colombia the next day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is pleased with the settlement of the Alaska boundary. Roosevelt encloses a newspaper article, which he would like republished, from a Democratic paper in Mississippi that supports James Kimble Vardaman for Governor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt examines the potential passage of anti-trust and franchise legislation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Lawrence F. Abbott for the letter and would like him to tell his little girl that Roosevelt was almost late for a formal dinner after he “played bear vigorously to too late an hour.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt believes that it is important that the Hague tribunal accepted the case but it is more important that the United States have a first class navy and efficient army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt values The Outlook for its fearless and honest criticism and is pleased that Lawrence F. Abbott will be corresponding with William H. Taft. Roosevelt is committed to stopping “needless cruelty or barbarity” in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Sherman Day Thacher asks Lawrence F. Abbott to tell Theodore Roosevelt how delighted the Thacher School would be to have him and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt visit sometime, commenting that he does not write to Roosevelt directly, “because he must be overwhelmed with correspondence at this time.” Thacher also thanks Abbott for previously recommending he read James Anthony Froude’s Life and Letters of Erasmus, which he is greatly enjoying.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-23

Creator(s)

Thacher, Sherman Day, 1861-1931

Robert Erskine Ely explains that Imre Josika-Herczeg, who invited the Roosevelts to meet Albert Apponyi, is a prominent Hungarian in New York City with a close relationship to Apponyi.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-03

Creator(s)

Ely, Robert Erskine, 1861-

Booker T. Washington thought that Lawrence F. Abbott would be interested in seeing the enclosed sentence from one of Washington’s friends in Wisconsin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-20

Creator(s)

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Ernst Hagner was Theodore Roosevelt’s medical advisor during his visit to Stockholm, Sweden. He asks Lawrence F. Abbott for a signed photograph of Roosevelt as a “memory for life.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-23

Creator(s)

Hagner, Ernst

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-07-12

Creator(s)

Berry, Marcellus F., 1849-1915

Recipient

Abbott, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Fraser), 1859-1933

Language

English