McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

Language

English

President Roosevelt has enjoyed hearing from S. S. McClure, hopes he is having a wonderful holiday, and hopes to see him in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1890-05-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt cannot fulfill S. S. McClure’s request to write an article because what he writes must be for Metropolitan Magazine. Roosevelt suggests that McClure get in touch with Gordon Johnston.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes to publisher S. S. McClure that no one was interested in publishing the letter from Count Albert Apponyi. They published the letter from Baron Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár. Many people give articles to Roosevelt, which he passes along to newspaper men who sometimes publish them. Roosevelt will pass on interesting articles to McClure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks S. S. McClure for the generous offer, but has decided in favor of the offer from Scribners. He wishes he could accept the offers of all four publications that wished to publish his articles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks S. S. McClure for the letter and enclosure. He cannot write an article about Secretary of War William H. Taft, but he thinks that George Kennan would be a good person to do so.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt agrees with S. S. McClure’s opinions about the Western Federation of Miners and the Big Bill Haywood case, but can only handle troops within the limits of the law.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt received S. S. McClure’s letter, but does not see how the council or Commission can say anything about the matter until the investigation is completed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells S. S. McClure that he had received his letter of November 30, noting that McAdoo is “a fine fellow.” Roosevelt also appreciates the clipping that McClure has forwarded him, which featured kind words from the Head Master of Eton College in England, which featured kind words about the President.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks S. S. McClure for the letter and will read the enclosed article with interest. He adds that there is a small chance of a spot opening on the Isthmian Canal Commission, but he would like to know the name of the man McClure referred to.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has heard that S. S. McClure and Henry Beach Needham are discussing Needham joining McClure’s Magazine as an editor, and offers his own opinion that Needham would render excellent service. Roosevelt has interacted with Needham frequently during the present session of Congress, and attests to his work ethic and character.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has been amused by the interest a speech of his has aroused, and tells S. S. McClure that everything he says will be applicable to any journalist or politician by pleading for the one to tell the truth, and the other to do their duty. While Roosevelt does not want to attack honest journalists or members of the government, he does wish “to attack the liar among writers just as I attack the scoundrel among public men.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is “much impressed” by what S. S. McClure says about Charles A. Stillings and would like to compare him to R. R. Bowker to see who is best to appoint to Public Printer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Although President Roosevelt agrees with S. S. McClure’s articles focusing on political corruption and the wrongs done by the rich, he warns him not to only focus on that, but also to write about the crimes committed by the poor, citing the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that followed as an example.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Following trouble with the Government Printing Office, President Roosevelt would like to select a man for Public Printer who does not have any connection with factional conflicts in the office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

Language

English

William Loeb informs S. S. McClure that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has no objection to McClure’s publishing the photographs of the Roosevelts taken by Edward S. Curtis, but does not want an accompanying article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-11

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

President Roosevelt has multiple copies of C. G. Schillings’s book and is pleased with it. He would like to meet the author and asks S. S. McClure to relay the invitation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has heard that Samuel Sidney McClure has just returned from Europe and invites him to lunch.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919