Tracy, Frank Basil, 1866-1912

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Tracy, Frank Basil, 1866-1912

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the letter and invites him to stop by his office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt did not answer Frank Tracy Basil’s telegram because he wanted to answer more fully. No one has offered Roosevelt any support, but he endeavors to decline such support when it is offered. Roosevelt continues to enjoy the Saturday Transcript.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tried to contact Frank Basil Tracy about meeting with Roosevelt. Roosevelt will not be at his office again until next Friday morning. Tracy is free to visit anytime. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-14

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for what he did on the “Roosevelt Paid the Duties” letter and is amused at the mention of his supposed “enormous quantity of baggage.” He is concerned about Tracy’s report on the Massachusetts campaign and suggests he write Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Roosevelt hopes Eugene Foss will be beaten and is disappointed that Louis Adams Frothingham is not doing better on the stump.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter for Frank Basil Tracy which he should find to be self-explanatory. Roosevelt requests a reply, particularly if Tracy has anything to tell him which would aid him in answering the enclosed letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt was shocked by Judge Francis C. Lowell’s death. However, he pleads with Frank Basil Tracy not to request a written tribute from him. He receives continual requests to write articles and make speeches, which he cannot physically do, nor would it be wise to try. Roosevelt comments on Lowell’s public service and career and permits Tracy to quote him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thinks Frank Basil Tracy “hit it just right.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt heard that William Loeb told someone that he personally believed Roosevelt would end up endorsing William H. Taft. Roosevelt thinks Frank Basil Tracy’s correspondent mistook Loeb’s statement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Frank Basil Tracy that he has read Tracy’s history, The Tercentenary History of Canada from Champlain to Laurier, 1608-1908, and liked it. Roosevelt also thought the piece in the Courier-Citizen about Henry Cabot Lodge was “first-class.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Frank Basil Tracy that he dedicated The Winning of the West to Francis Parkman, an American historian he has alluded to numerous times.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt feels that it would have been a mistake not to say the things he said in his speech.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Frank Basil Tracy that while he greatly likes the portrait that Joseph DeCamp painted of him, he does not want to write a letter specifically about it because then he would be asked to write letters about every other portrait. Roosevelt does not object to Tracy making a statement that he knows that Roosevelt likes the portrait. John Woodbury has a letter that Roosevelt gives Tracy permission to quote from. Roosevelt likes Albert Bushnell Hart, especially recently since “his action in connection with the Englishman at Tokio.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the nice letter and comments that he takes “just the right view” of the case involving Ben Daniels. Roosevelt confirms that Tracy guessed right and that when Roosevelt asked Daniels if there was anything that might prevent Roosevelt from securing Daniels’s appointment in the Senate as a United States Marshal, Daniels failed to tell Roosevelt about the incident that led to his resignation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is pleased that Frank Basil Tracy, editor of The Evening Transcript, had an article published an article on the late Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, who Roosevelt valued and respected.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt appreciates Frank Basil Tracy’s letter about the Moro fight. He will be admitted by the usher Major Charles D. A. Loeffler, a Civil War veteran. Loeffler once shared his experience of attacking a Comanche camp and how sorry he felt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Frank Basil Tracy for the slip. He is glad that Yale University president Arthur Twining Hadley reached the conclusion that he did, but cannot follow the reasoning used to reach it. He notes in a handwritten postscript that “it would be quite as difficult to achieve practical results for good in the field of action, by the aid of college presidents as by the aid of senators.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Frank Basil Tracy of the Boston Evening Transcript that he has not looked enough into Francis Parkman’s treatment of Canadians to answer the matter in question, but does say that Parkman had an unusual sympathy with the difficulties facing the men who did the work on the ground. Roosevelt is interested in the range article, and points out that the government has started to help the situation by charging a fee for cattle pastured on reserves.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt encloses a further report on the Rosebud lands, which he asks Frank Basil Tracy to return when he is finished with. So far, not a single accusation from William R. Lighton has proved true, and most have been conclusively proven false.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt forwarded Frank Basil Tracy’s dispatch and accompanying articles to Martin A. Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission, who then shared them to other members of the commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919