Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-01-16

Creator(s)

Gordon, Charles U.

Recipient

Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-02-16

Creator(s)

Busse, Fred A. (Fred Adolph), 1866-1914

Recipient

Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951

President Roosevelt will have Secretary of State Elihu Root look into “that Shedd matter,” but tells Charles Gates Dawes that missionaries in Persia have yet to gain progress in “the war they have been waging” upon the United States minister of Persia, Richmond Pearson.   

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-02

President Roosevelt clarifies a previous statement to Charles Gates Dawes, saying that all he meant was that if Illinois Governor Charles Samuel Deneen plans to come to Washington, D.C., Roosevelt would love to see him. Roosevelt had heard from Frederick E. Coyne that Deneen wished for an invitation, and considered it important that they speak.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-21

President Roosevelt tells Charles Gates Dawes he included the paragraph in his speech that mentioned railroad lines after two years of “slowly and reluctantly coming to the conclusion that it ought to be said” and discussing the paragraph with several cabinet members. The president also supports increasing the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

President Roosevelt thanks Charles Gates Dawes for his telegram, and for the work he did during the recent presidential campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-09

President Roosevelt was so touched by the note that Charles H. McConnell wrote to Charles Gates Dawes that he wrote a note to McConnell. Roosevelt was glad to hear Dawes’s news about Indiana.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-02

Theodore Roosevelt believes Gates is better off as a farmer than as a government servant. Roosevelt thinks Gates is “the right sort.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-23

President Roosevelt would like to see Charles Gates Dawes when he reaches Chicago.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-23

President Roosevelt thanks Charles Gates Dawes for the telegram.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-06

Vice President Roosevelt thanks Charles Gates Dawes for his letter. Two of the Roosevelt children were recently hospitalized, and Mrs. Roosevelt will soon take them to the Adirondack Mountains. Roosevelt might visit them, and then he hopes to see Dawes on his return.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-28

Hugo Pam writes to Charles Gates Dawes to request that President Roosevelt speak at the Standard Club’s upcoming banquet in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The organization is composed entirely of Jewish individuals and the female members of the men’s families are welcome at this event.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-22

President Roosevelt wired Cornelius Newton Bliss and George B. Cortelyou as Charles Gates Dawes suggested. Roosevelt directs Dawes inform “people of the opposition” that if Roosevelt is running for president, Cortelyou will be Chairman of the Republican National Committee and that opposing Cortelyou is hurting the Republican cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-17