Forster, Rudolph, 1872-1943

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-11

Creator(s)

Smith, Ira R. T. (Ira Robert Taylor), 1875-1955

Recipient

Forster, Rudolph, 1872-1943

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-01

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Recipient

Forster, Rudolph, 1872-1943

William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster to discover if Leroy Stafford Boyd is an employee of the Library of Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-26

William Loeb forwards a request from Abby Gunn Baker. He has directed Baker to call Rudolph Forster to arrange for the photographs she wants of the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-06

William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster to have Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee copy the papers he needs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-03

Rudolph Forster is reminded that President Roosevelt is to write former President Grover Cleveland for his birthday, March 18.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-16

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would like Harris & Ewing to come over to the house, likely referring to the photographic studio of the same name.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-30

William Loeb writes to Assistant Secretary of State Forster asking him to forward a message to Japanese Minister Kogoro Takahira. The message mentions President Roosevelt’s gratitude for receiving Takahira’s letter and Roosevelt’s intention to not broadcast the plans for an armistice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-03

William Loeb writes to Assistant Secretary of State Forster with a message for him to deliver to Japanese Minister Kogoro Takahira. President Roosevelt explains the situation regarding Russian plenipotentiaries. Russia has agreed to move the peace talks to Washington, D.C., from the Hague, Netherlands. Roosevelt believes that Russia indeed intends to make peace with Japan and he feels it would be best to grant an armistice if one is requested.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-02

William Loeb wishes the following dispatch from President Roosevelt to be delivered to Ambassador Jusserand: “If a conference is held and any differences of opinion should arise between France and Germany, Germany will be ready to back up the decision that is considered most fair and practical.” The emperor would like to prove that what Roosevelt has done is in the interest of peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-30

William Loeb tells Rudolph Forster about the upcoming appointments of Baron Rosen and Aleksandr Ivanovich Nelidoff as ambassadors by the Russian government.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-29

Third Assistant Secretary of State Pierce encloses a telegram from Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick recommending General Horace Porter be appointed as a Special Ambassador in connection to the upcoming ceremonies for removing the remains of John Paul Jones.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-27

George W. Smalley sends Rudolph Forster a copy of President Roosevelt’s letter as Forster requested.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-17

William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster to repeat his previous telegram as Loeb has no cipher with him to decrypt it. Loeb also asks Forster to tell Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that President Roosevelt is well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-26

William Loeb asks Rudolph Forster if there are any records documenting that President Roosevelt informed the representatives of the Grand Army encampment at Boston that Roosevelt would not be present at the encampment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-16

William Loeb instructs Rudolph Forster to verify with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw that the appointment of Harry Alfred Hanbury as New York Shipping Commissioner was announced as instructed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-22

Assistant United States Treasurer Hamilton Fish asks Rudolph Forster to inform President Roosevelt that, given the contents of a previous letter, he will not go to Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-1908

Walter R. Pedigo returns to Rudolph Forster a letter from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to President Roosevelt. Pedigo has made an extract copy of the portion of the letter which deals with the War Department so that Forster can place the original in his personal files.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-30

Julius P. Meyer thanks Rudolph Forster for the information in his letter from the sixth. Meyer is pleased with the election results, in particular, the re-election as Charles Evans Hughes as Governor of New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-07

Charles Patrick Neill sends over an item that he received yesterday, in case President Roosevelt and William H. Taft would like to discuss it today. Neill leaves at four for the West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-16