Bridgman, Howard Allen, 1860-1929

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-06-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Bridgman, Howard Allen, 1860-1929

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for the letter. He hopes Bridgman will visit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-01

President Roosevelt introduces editor Howard Allen Bridgman to his friend Eleanor Franklin Egan. Having spent time in the Philippines, Egan and her husband Martin Egan want to show “the truth of conditions…and the need of the continuance of the present policy” there. Roosevelt feels that publishing Egan’s collection of articles will help the nation understand “what its duty in the Philippines is, and the vital necessity of performing that duty.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-09

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-10-09

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Bridgman, Howard Allen, 1860-1929

Theodore Roosevelt apologizes, but it is not possible for him to be interviewed as Howard Allen Bridgman requests, and anything he wrote would be for The Outlook. He reassures Bridgman that he sympathizes with his purpose.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-05

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman, editor of The Congregationalist, for passing on the comments of college presidents and those of Professor William Archibald Dunning of Columbia University.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-27

President Roosevelt tells Howard Allen Bridgman of The Congregationalist not to ask him to commit himself to writing anything, as he already has many requests for articles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-20

President Roosevelt tells Howard Allen Bridgman that he is not planning to write anything next year outside of his African trip. Roosevelt would like to do anything Bridgman asks but does not think he could write that article. He muses that the fact he goes to church is a stronger appeal than anything he could write asking people to go to church.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-15

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for the letter and editorials. Roosevelt comments on his recent message to congress, and is not surprised that The Congregationalist takes the view that it does. Roosevelt will ask A. E. Dunning to see him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-11

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for the editorial and invites him to visit some time to discuss national and global policy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-21

President Roosevelt feels similarly to Howard Allen Bridgman that Governor of Puerto Rico Regis Henri Post made a grave error, it was a lapse in speech and does not reflect his thoughts. The one mistake should be considered alongside five years of superior service.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-29

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for his recent editorial, both because he personally enjoyed it and because he thinks it sets out important facts. Roosevelt comments that there is a danger in trying to work between the excesses of populism and demagoguery on one hand, and the real abuses and wrongs that have been committed by businesses and the wealthy on the other. Roosevelt compares the two sides to the French nobility and the leaders of the French Revolution, both of which went to very dangerous and damaging excesses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-14

President Roosevelt was touched by Howard Allen Bridgman’s letter, and asks him to visit and have lunch with him and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp to discuss the topic. Roosevelt encloses a letter which explains how the awkwardly worded telegram got sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-18

President Roosevelt tells Howard Allen Bridgman that the editorial he sent Roosevelt is entirely false, and has asked Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp to communicate with Bridgman. In the meantime, Roosevelt also tells Bridgman the facts surrounding the schooling of Native Americans, and how funds are sent either to Catholic schools or government schools.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-14