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William P. Trent praises Theodore Roosevelt’s latest essays and states he will write an anonymous review of them. Trent tells Roosevelt of his own work to be published within a month, and asks Roosevelt to read it. Trent asks to discuss literary styles the next time they meet in person.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-06
Richard Wainwright thanks Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt for his kind letter and the esteem that he expressed for him. He values Roosevelt’s praise very highly, not only because of Roosevelt’s high office, but also because of his personal character. Wainwright’s personal and official relations with Roosevelt have given him hope that the Navy will be established on a sound basis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-10
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1898-04-13
Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.)
Henry S. Drinker writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to enclose two letters from their mutual friends, Robert Jenkins Nevin, Pastor of the American Episcopal church in Rome, and William Wells, who recently moved to a new location in Wyoming. Drinker hopes to spend next summer with Wells.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-15
Thomas A. Janvier thanks Assistant Secretary of the Navy for helping him get a research permit. He refuses to be dissuaded by talk about records burning in a fire. Janvier and his wife, Catherine A. Janvier, are grateful for their friendship with Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-11-19
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt has purchased a subscription to The Deer of all Lands: A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct by Richard Lydekker from the publisher Rowland Ward Limited.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-14
Rudyard Kipling writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asking him to meet with his friend Sidney Low, editor of the London Gazette, when he visits the United States in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-21
Douglas Robinson does not know how to advise Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt on whether to sell or keep his stock in the National Mining and Exploring Company. Robinson did not accept Mr. Post’s offer for Roosevelt’s stock in the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railway, as his bid was too low.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-24
Frederic Remington received Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt’s book The Winning of the West for Christmas and compliments Roosevelt on his ability to write history books. Remington was looking to use some primary sources for inspiration for his art, but Roosevelt’s book did the trick.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-25
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1898-01-01
Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915
Rear Admiral Evans comments on his recent duck hunt and is glad that Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed the ducks. Roosevelt’s letter “was perfect,” and Evans is certain the Navy will appreciate Roosevelt’s clear presentation of the pay question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-07
Rear Admiral Higginson writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt praising him for his report which emphasizes investing in training Navy personnel. Higginson favors the current bill and hopes it does not die in Congress. However, the selection clause in the bill is as divisive among Navy personnel as the silver currency issue is in Congress. He hopes this bill will make for a more unified, organized Navy for the future.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-10
Jeremiah D. Sullivan thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his help in promoting Sullivan to sergeant.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-15
Bank draft from the Union Trust Company, for $412.58 to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, signed by Robinson Douglas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-19
James Alfred Roosevelt informs Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt that he needs to put his letter to Mr. Tyng in the form of an affidavit and to add the assertion that he has no personal taxable property in the city.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-01-24
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including Three Years’ Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-west by J. Turner-Turner, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Comprising Fifteen Years’ Hunting and Trading by James Chapman, Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes by Charles Sperling Cumberland, and A Naturalist in the Transvaal by William Lucas Distant.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-02-18
Representative Cockran believes that Thomas B. Connery would be an excellent selection for paymaster in the Navy and urges Secretary Roosevelt to hire him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-07
John Ellis Roosevelt requests the notice of personal tax assessment against Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and a letter to show to the tax officers clarifying that Roosevelt and his family have largely resided in Washington, D.C., not New York, since Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-08
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope Across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa by Walter Montagu Kerr, Camping in the Canadian Rockies: An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region about Banff, Lake Louise and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations by Walter Dwight Wilcox, and Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir: Being a Narrative of an Eight Months’ Trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a Lady’s Experiences in the Latter Country: Together with Hints for the Guidance of Sportsmen by Henry Zouch Darrah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-25