Colby, Everett, 1874-1943 | - Theodore Roosevelt Center

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Everett Colby for sending a picture of a bull moose. The picture has been sent to Progressive Party headquarters in Manhattan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-17

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt defends Governor Hiram Johnson’s actions in rapidly appointing a committee without consulting the state delegations. It is Roosevelt’s understanding that this is a formal committee whose only function will be calling for a party convention. Once the party is organized, all delegations will be consulted. Roosevelt offers to add Everett Colby’s name to the list and requests suggestions for other additions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept Everett Colby’s invitation as he is trying to avoid making any more speeches.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he was unable to visit the Frank H. Sommer Club during his trip to Newark, New Jersey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt politely declines Everett Colby’s invitation to speak at a political dinner. Roosevelt has found that the only way to prevent an endless succession of speeches is to refuse to begin, and he laments the demand for incessant speeches on serious subjects.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the duck and suggests that Everett Colby and Mrs. Colby come visit in April.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt will not be attending the Progressive Party executive committee meeting but he suggests Everett Colby attend. Amos Pinchot and George L. Record are only remaining in the party to do damage. It is important that those opposed to Pinchot and Record do not take a reactionary position at the meeting. Colby’s statement about Roosevelt’s nomination is the “veriest pipe-dream imaginable.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

President Roosevelt says that Senator Colby’s defeat in the election was a “fly in the ointment” in the overall triumph of the election. He would like to meet with Colby to find out what happened.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Everett Colby

Gifford Pinchot writes to Everett Colby about the direction the country must take after World War I: the creation of a progressive platform, a victorious election, and progressive laws passed. Pinchot believes the election of 1920 is second in importance only to the peace treaty itself, and he desires a platform that can “secure to our people the full fruits of their great war sacrifice.” If the “Old Guard” forms the platform, they will not be successful; “the Republican party cannot win in 1920 unless it is genuinely progressive.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-12-19

Creator(s)

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

Letter from Edmund B. Osborne to Everett Colby

Edmund B. Osborne writes to Everett Colby, listing the differences between their political platforms. Osborne repeatedly points out his agreement with Theodore Roosevelt’s policy positions.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1913-08-12

Creator(s)

Osborne, Edmund B. (Edmund Burke), 1865-1917

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Everett Colby

Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept Everett Colby’s invitation. His first public speech to the “people of the west” will be at the semi-centennial celebration of Nebraska’s statehood.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-04-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919