Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-02-06

Creator(s)

Stricker, Josephine M., 1878-1944

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-05-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-10-05

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt/Sec,

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-05-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-05-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-05-21

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt/Sec,

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Theodore Roosevelt asks William Emlen Roosevelt to accept his resignation as director of the Broadway Improvement Company. He requests that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. be elected in his place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-08

Theodore Roosevelt asks William Emlen Roosevelt whether he knows of anyone who could look at the enclosed proposition. He has no interest in it, except that Flanigan and Smith have been “politically square men” who have been “pretty roughly handled” by a swindler.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-30

Theodore Roosevelt saw Aunt Lizzie yesterday and was going to visit Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt until he was reminded how sick she had been with typhoid fever. Roosevelt is eager to tell William Emlen Roosevelt about his trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

A remote cousin of the Roosevelt family is experiencing difficulties. Theodore Roosevelt would like Emlen Roosevelt to advise him on the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-06

Theodore Roosevelt asks William Emlen Roosevelt to pay the bills if they came from proper authorities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-11

Theodore Roosevelt has always been in favor of an inheritance tax. Since there is now bipartisan support for an income tax, he did not oppose it. He thinks England and Germany provide a useful model for implementing the income tax.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-24

Theodore Roosevelt asks for a statement from William Emlen Roosevelt to testify to Roosevelt’s sobriety to demonstrate to Roosevelt’s lawyer, James H. Pound, what Pound will have to rely on in the libel case against George A. Newett.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-17

President Roosevelt invites his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, and family to ride in a car he will borrow from Peters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-26

President Roosevelt thanks his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, for the kind offer. However, it will probably be best for him and his wife, Edith, to take the 10:00 p.m. train after the inauguration. Roosevelt wants it to be clear that they are “not doing anything unusual or in a swell way.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-04

President Roosevelt thanks his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, for the invitation, but cannot accept until his travel plans are more certain. He enjoyed hearing about William’s son, John Kean Roosevelt, and about the “agony” that his communication with Congress causes lawmakers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-31

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

President Roosevelt tells his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, that he looks forward to seeing him soon, and enjoyed seeing his family recently. He asks him to tell James J. Mills that he has nothing to do with the appointment Mills wrote to him about, and that he cannot interfere.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-04

President Roosevelt thanks his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt for the birthday wishes. He says he does not mind being fifty, and is happy with his life so far. He hopes that he will see William and his son George Emlen Roosevelt on the train to Long Island City for the election. Roosevelt believes that Charles Evans Hughes and William H. Taft will win their elections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-27

President Roosevelt is glad that his second cousin, Katherine Roosevelt, is coming out all right, and that William Emlen Roosevelt’s mother made the trip okay and is comfortable. (Katherine Roosevelt had recently broken her leg in an accident while horseback riding)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-27