Goddard, F. Norton (Frederick Norton), 1861-1905

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-14

Creator(s)

Blaney, Charles P.

Recipient

Goddard, F. Norton (Frederick Norton), 1861-1905

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Goddard, F. Norton (Frederick Norton), 1861-1905

President Roosevelt thanks F. Norton Goddard for sending the letter from Mr. Nichols. He would like Mr. Nichols to write to him in full.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-03

President Roosevelt understands and appreciates F. Norton Goddard. An unnamed man will call on Goddard in about a week’s time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-26

George B. Cortelyou advises that if there are problems with United States Marshal William Henkel’s reappointment, President Roosevelt would like to show F. Norton Goddard’s letter to Robert C. Morris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-17

President Roosevelt writes to F. Norton Goddard to request permission to show Goddard’s letter to Robert C. Morris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-15

President Roosevelt appreciates F. Norton Goddard’s “nice and manly” letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-01

President Roosevelt informs F. Norton Goddard that he should never have approached a potential district attorney with a request to give his friend a job. Roosevelt does not believe that James R. Sheffield meant to imply he would give the friend a job, and is not even sure that he will appoint Sheffield. He is astonished that Goddard would make such a request.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-21

President Roosevelt tells F. Norton Goddard that the author of the letters Goddard had sent was Roosevelt’s father, and he appreciates being shown them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-11

President Roosevelt informs F. Norton Goddard that he has had significant opposition to the candidacy of Marcus M. Marks for Postmaster of New York, including labor organizations, certain businessman, and prominent members of the Jewish community.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-07

Theodore Roosevelt thanks F. Norton Goddard for his letter. Roosevelt suggests that Goddard get in touch with Chairman Cortelyou. Roosevelt also hopes that every Republican worker will support Governor Higgins as much as himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-01

President Roosevelt gives his approval for F. Norton Goddard to give a letter of introduction to his Armenian friend. Until Roosevelt received Goddard’s letter he had not thought of Charles H. Murray as postmaster. Roosevelt will gladly talk over the New York City appointments with Goddard.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-29

President Roosevelt believes that Frank W. Higgins would make an excellent governor of New York, but he knows that Higgins’s opponents will claim he is a “tool” of current Governor Benjamin B. Odell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-15

President Roosevelt appreciates what F. Norton Goddard has done.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-27

President Roosevelt thanks F. Norton Goddard for his previous letter and reflects on his chances in the upcoming election. He worries that Representative Lucius Nathan Littauer and Goddard are “over sanguine” about his prospects. He also asks Goddard to provide him with information about what people in his district are saying about the tariff issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-15

For fear of setting a precedent, President Roosevelt regrets that he will not be able to attend F. Norton Goddard’s child’s christening.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-17

President Roosevelt congratulates F. Norton Goddard and his wife on the new arrival.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-22

President Roosevelt thanks F. Norton Goddard for the book and will follow Goddard’s actions with “greatest interest.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-27

President Roosevelt is trying not to concern himself with renomination and hopes that his work as President will secure the Republican nomination for him. Roosevelt disagrees with F. Norton Goddard on regulating beef duties and strongly defends the record and actions of Attorney General Philander C. Knox and Secretary of War Elihu Root.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-08-14

President Roosevelt encloses his subscription to help erect a monument to Rebecca Salome Foster, the woman known as the Tombs Angel.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-21