Folks, Homer, 1867-1963

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-06-11

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt/Sec,

Recipient

Folks, Homer, 1867-1963

Publication Date

2025-03-20

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Homer Folks for the editorial letter he sent. Roosevelt agrees with Folks’s position but does not wish to include Folks in the committee to draft his platform, preferring that Folks remain unofficially connected to the Progressive Party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-22

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Homer Folks that Roosevelt would like to meet with a department head who can give advice on what law changes Roosevelt should advocate for in an upcoming speech on child labor and compensation. He wonders if such a man could meet with Roosevelt tomorrow.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-09

At the request of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary sends Homer Folks an enclosed letter from a woman. Roosevelt hopes someone in Folks’s organization may be able to investigate the situation and help her.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-08

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Under the direction of Theodore Roosevelt, the secretary of Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter to Homer Folks asking for his comment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-02

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes to Homer Folks on behalf of the daughter of Frank Travers. Roosevelt is recommending Travers’s daughter for work through Father York. Roosevelt’s letter also serves to introduce York to Folks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt must inform Homer Folks that he cannot accept his invitation to speak, even though he wishes that he could. Roosevelt receives thousands of similar invitations but is unable to accept “one in a hundred” of them, due to the toll that every speaking engagement takes upon him. To accept more invitations to speak would make it impossible for Roosevelt to accomplish any other work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt clarifies his role as head of the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children to Homer Folks, New York Commissioner of Public Charities. Although Roosevelt doesn’t mind his name being used for transitional and continuity purposes, he insists that someone else must be in charge by the time he returns from his African safari. Roosevelt stresses that keeping his name on would require him to assume responsibility for other commissions and conferences, putting him in an impossible position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt concurs with the conclusions of the White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children that a permanent voluntary organization would be beneficial. In order to try to secure adequate support and financing for such an organization, Roosevelt asks Homer Folks to form a committee with Thomas M. Mulry and James E. West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt wishes that he could be present with Homer Folks, Secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, but unfortunately he cannot. Nevertheless, he wishes to give the association an assurance of his interest, sympathy, and approval in their efforts to prevent tuberculosis in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Homer Folks he is welcome to show this letter to Governor-elect Charles Evans Hughes. While Roosevelt was governor of New York, he found Folks to be of great help to him and greatly values his work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt regrets that he will be unable to attend the opening of the City Training School for nurses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919