Your TR Source
President Roosevelt asks Robert Bacon when he can bring his wife, Martha Bacon, and “every available younger Bacon” to visit Sagamore Hill. He suggests the week of July 10, and tells Bacon to bring his tennis shoes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-30
Wishing he could make it more, President Roosevelt sends Robert Bacon a check for five hundred dollars as his contribution to the class gift to Harvard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-09
President Roosevelt does not understand why there was hesitation about nominating Robert Bacon and had earnestly hoped that Bacon would be nominated. He did not believe there would be any “clamor” raised against Bacon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-14
President Roosevelt hears what Robert Bacon is doing and wants him to know that he fully appreciates it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
Elihu Root informs Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon that he hopes to reach Panama by September 16. If the USS Mayflower can be ready by then, at Colon, Panama, to take him to Cartagena, Colombia, he will probably be able to return via San Francisco.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-27
President Roosevelt asks if Robert Bacon received his last letter and invites him to lunch or dinner.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-22
President Roosevelt and Robert Bacon can discuss matters over lunch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-09
President Roosevelt thanks Robert Bacon for his assistance during the Anthracite Coal Strike and would like to see him soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-18
President Roosevelt compares the Anthracite Coal Strike situation to what President Lincoln faced during the American Civil War, including receiving wide ranging advice from extremists. Roosevelt sees problems on both sides of the strike and has received contradictory reports on the level of violence in Pennsylvania. Roosevelt favors John Mitchell’s proposition but does not believe it will be accepted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-07
President Roosevelt’s concern continues to grow over the Anthracite Coal Strike. John Mitchell dominated the meeting between President Roosevelt, the coal operators, and representatives of the coal miners. Roosevelt found Mitchell’s proposition reasonable but the coal operators advocated for military intervention in the strike which Roosevelt found to be “amazing folly.” President Roosevelt continues to seek a peaceful solution and has offered Mitchell an investigatory commission if the miners will return to work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-05
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-04-08
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
2025-10-16
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-04-05
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
2025-10-16
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-02-19
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932
2025-07-31
William Loeb sends Acting Secretary of State Bacon a magazine and a newspaper, and asks that he have translations made of the articles concerning President Roosevelt so that Loeb may forward them to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-07
Mexican diplomat José F. Godoy informs Assistant Secretary of State Bacon that Mexico recognizes Honduras’s provisional government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-12
Assistant Secretary of State Wilson sends three memoranda to Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon. In the first, Wilson gives a brief curriculum vitae of Japanese diplomat Admiral Gonnohyōe Yamamoto, indicating he is considered an “elder statesman” in Japan and likely to be the next prime minister. In the second memorandum, Wilson describes Japanese public opinion and press coverage of the immigration situation in the United States, particularly in San Francisco. The third memorandum describes complaints sent by the Chambers of Commerce of Japan to the “principal” Chambers of Commerce of the United States regarding the treatment of Japanese immigrants.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-06
Huntington Wilson sends Assistant Secretary of State Bacon memoranda about Japanese matters which he would like him to give to President Roosevelt. Wilson believes two of the memoranda would be especially useful for Roosevelt to read prior to his meeting with Gonnohyōe Yamamoto.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-06
Acting Secretary of State Adee agrees with Assistant Secretary of State Bacon that a circular telegram, which recites the circumstances under which the United States provisionally administers to Cuba and announces that diplomat and consular services continue, should be sent to all missions. Adee will draft the circular with Scott’s help and send it to Secretary of State Elihu Root when he arrives.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-29
Acting Secretary of State Adee reports to Assistant Secretary of State Bacon on United States warships sent to Cuba to protect American property, including the Dixie, Louisiana, Virginia, Minneapolis, Newark, and Cleveland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-21
United States Consul Dunning describes receiving a coded cablegram on September 13, 1906, that contained President Roosevelt’s speech for the Fifteenth Peace Conference to Assistant Secretary of State Bacon. After the opening of the Conference in Milan, Italy, Dunning read Roosevelt’s speech, which was received appropriately. The mayor of Milan asked Dunning to present his respects to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-19