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President Roosevelt invites Thomas R. Lounsbury to visit the White House beginning on December 6, saying that he has earned the holiday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-16
President Roosevelt will gladly support the monument to James Fenimore Cooper and suggests that Thomas R. Lounsbury contact Brander Matthews for additional help. Roosevelt would be pleased if Lounsbury could visit Washington, D.C. next winter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-03
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with the Yale Book of American Verse which was edited by Professor Lounsbury. He is jealous that the Elizabethan Club and Yale University published such a valuable work instead of Harvard University, his own alma mater. Roosevelt would like to write a notice for the book to appear in The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-10-24
Theodore Roosevelt read Thomas R. Lounsbury’s volume on Robert Browning with keen pleasure and agrees with Lounsbury. He is very fond of Browning’s work, even those he cannot understand. Roosevelt theorizes that others read Browning for the puzzle of figuring out his philosophy. Lounsbury’s article on themes delighted Roosevelt, especially as Kermit Roosevelt is taking a course on the subject. He is annoyed by the general belief that some new machinery will solve educational, political, and social problems.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-27
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas R. Lounsbury for the letter and paragraph on William H. Taft. Roosevelt returns the paragraph with corrections. Roosevelt comments about an action of Congress that is similar to when it overturned his order removing the phrase “In God we trust” from coins.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-26
President Roosevelt appreciated the article that Thomas R. Lounsbury wrote in the Atlantic. He admits that he was doubtful about the simplified spelling of “thru.” He disagrees with the Congressional ruling that forbids simplified spelling in publications printed by the Government Printing Office, and he continues to use it in his own correspondence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-30
President Roosevelt was “deeply pleased and moved” by Thomas R. Lounsbury’s letter, but fears that those words are inadequate to express how he felt upon reading it. Roosevelt reflects on his goals as president of doing everything he can to benefit the “plain people” of America, and of working to gain “their trust and approbation.” That being said, the mass of the public is occasionally difficult to understand and acts with seeming randomness, and Roosevelt comments that “the friendship, the goodwill and the praise I value more than I can express come from [Lounsbury] and from two or three others whose convictions and judgement I deeply respect.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-05
President Roosevelt asks when Thomas R. Lounsbury is free to spend a night at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt has been “laboriously trying” to avoid using split infinitives in an effort to look cultured. Now he will “give unbridled rein” to his passions in the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-29
President Roosevelt appreciates Thomas R. Lounsbury’s action and will act suitably surprised when the petition arrives. He invites Lounsbury to spend a night at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-25
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas R. Lounsbury for the letter and encourages him to be philosophical about a difficult situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-16
President Roosevelt has enjoyed Shakespeare and Voltaire and would like Professor Lounsbury to meet the new Ambassador J. J. Jusserand from France.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-11
President Roosevelt appreciates Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury’s letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-19
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-15
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915
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