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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-08-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923

Language

English

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt informs William Roscoe Thayer that he has not had time to create a sketch and that the data were contained in an article written for Graduates Magazine by Curtis Guild.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-07-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-10-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923

Language

English

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt regrets that The Outlook has already reviewed William Roscoe Thayer’s essays, but in a way that would make them difficult to review again. He notes a paradox regarding different factions of the Catholic Church in America.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt tells William Roscoe Thayer that he looks forward to receiving the book. Roosevelt discusses ultramontane attacks on schools and fundamental liberties, the American Protective Association (A.P.A.), cowardly newspapers, and his position on the tariff.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt provides several corrections to William Roscoe Thayer’s article, “John Hay and the Panama Republic.” Roosevelt denies conspiring with Philippe Bunau-Varilla and defends his actions as Colombia could not be treated as a “responsible power.” Had there not been a revolt, Roosevelt was prepared to seize the isthmus by force. However, he took advantage of the situation and stopped the “bandits” from holding up a great project.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt is doing all he can against the Ship Purchase Bill, and he believes President Wilson is the worst president since President Buchanan, not excepting President Andrew Johnson. Roosevelt says William Roscoe Thayer can use anything he has said about John Hay, as long as he is allowed to look it over first. Roosevelt is looking forward to Thayer’s visit and also enjoyed his article in Harper’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

William Roscoe Thayer should study up on the matter. Then Theodore Roosevelt can give Thayer the information he has, and he hopes they can see each other in Boston.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt thanks William Roscoe Thayer for the letter. He is unsure about Thayer’s proposition concerning Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, and while he supports understanding between the United States and Great Britain, he does not think it is correct to say that Americans and Englishmen are the same people. While Roosevelt does not contradict Thayer’s statement that Lincoln was the greatest English-speaking statesman of the nineteenth century, or that Darwin was the greatest English-speaking scientist of the nineteenth century, Roosevelt thinks that there might be a significant contingent of people who do not accept either one or the other of these ideas.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt tells William Roscoe Thayer that although Guglielmo Ferrero will spend a few nights at the White House, he is not his guest. Roosevelt hopes that Thayer will make his own arrangements for Ferrero and is sorry that Ferrero will not speak at the Lowell Institute.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt writes to William Roscoe Thayer on the subject of criticism. Roosevelt feels that those who do are more aptly placed to be critics as to who do not, using the comparison that the authors of the Federalist were political doers who also criticized and acted. He then extends the metaphor to cover Harvard’s struggles in sports competitions with Yale and Cornell.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt is “immensely impressed” with Antonio Fogazzaro’s The Saint and appreciates William Roscoe Thayer’s interpretation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt tells William Roscoe Thayer that a recent article in Harvard Graduates’ Magazine about Yale’s attitude in athletics has done real damage. He believes articles like this one are “almost as responsible for the demoralization of sport as brutality on the field.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

President Roosevelt thanks William Roscoe Thayer for the letter, and notes that he was only able to bring about peace between Russia and Japan because members of other nations trusted him to do so.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919