Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-18

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-02-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-02-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

President Roosevelt agrees with Century Magazine editors Robert Underwood Johnson and Richard Watson Gilder that it is best not to publish the article until after the election in November.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-27

William Loeb informs Robert Underwood Johnson that President Roosevelt appreciates his election as a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and is pleased to accept.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-28

President Roosevelt asks Robert Underwood Johnson to explain a sentence in his letter about “dangerous sectionalism.” Roosevelt believes he has been “more than magnanimous towards the South,” yet the dangerous sectionalism has continued. For this reason, Roosevelt believes Johnson’s comment is absurd. A handwritten addition says: “File. Do not send.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-12

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-02-11

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt/Sec,

Recipient

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges Robert Underwood Johnson’s two letters, and approves Roosevelt’s name on a list for the Keats-Shelley Memorial. Two drafts included, one slightly edited.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-25

Theodore Roosevelt feels Warrington Dawson is a promising young man who writes well. Roosevelt submits Dawson’s novel to Robert Underwood Johnson to see if the Century Company can use it. He enjoyed spending time with Johnson’s son and is interested in his work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-24

Theodore Roosevelt does not remember anything about the incidents that Robert Underwood Johnson refers to in his recent letter, but explains the reasons behind his praise of Gifford Pinchot. He promises that whenever Johnson feels that Roosevelt can write something to help people understand how great a help Johnson has been, he will do so.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-06

Theodore Roosevelt explains that he is unable to submit articles to publications other than The Outlook. Roosevelt extends praise to Robert Underwood Johnson of The Century Magazine regarding a recently printed brochure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-31

Theodore Roosevelt instructs Robert Underwood Johnson to write to William Roscoe Thayer about John Hay’s original manuscripts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-30

Theodore Roosevelt is glad to learn that Cooper came out so well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-22

President Roosevelt shared Robert Underwood Johnson’s indignation at Columbia College’s acceptance of money “for such a purpose from such a knave,” (Joseph Pulitzer had recently proposed the creation of a school of journalism at Columbia College). Roosevelt tells Johnson that he was extremely doubtful about the Hetch Hetchy matter, but ultimately decided he had to stand behind the judgement of Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-17

President Roosevelt thanks Robert Underwood Johnson for sending him his son Owen Johnson’s story.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-26

President Roosevelt is very glad that there is an effort underway to preserve the house in Rome where John Keats died. He tells Robert Underwood Johnson that he thinks it would be appropriate to buy the house and establish a memorial to Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-05

President Roosevelt thanks Robert Underwood Johnson, preliminary secretary of the Academy of Arts and Letters, for his election to the institution. Roosevelt is pleased to accept the membership.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-28

President Roosevelt shares with Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine, his thoughts on California’s reaction to making Yosemite Valley a national park. It appears the primary objection is that the federal government “would protect it too well” from sheepmen and cattlemen.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-17

President Roosevelt was pleased to help with the forestry matter. He could not write a letter to be published but can make a statement for Gifford Pinchot to use in the article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-17