United States. Department of State

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

United States. Department of State

Language

English

President Roosevelt introduces Archibald Gracie and requests he be given access to documents for historical research.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt returns the memorandum about Consul-General Frank Dyer Chester and inquires why he has not been removed from his post.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt directs the Department of State to refer to the concluding part of his letter of April 10 regarding documentation of the incident with Governor of Jamaica James Alexander Swettenham. Roosevelt instructs that the reports from those involved, including Admiral Robley D. Evans, Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, Father Mathew Carlin Gleeson, the ship surgeon, and all officers, be readied for publication. At some point, the affair “may see the light,” in Great Britain, and Roosevelt wants “immediately to produce our whole case in answer.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt’s understanding with Secretary of State Root is that Horace G. Knowles is to be transferred to a vacant South American ministership with the understanding that he will hold it until March 4, 1909. Roosevelt directs the Department of State to make out Knowles’s nomination for this transfer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt directs the State Department to submit Huntington Wilson’s name as a candidate to be appointed as Minister Plenipotentiary to Romania, and to place William Phillips in Wilson’s current position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt chastises the United States Department of State about several matters that he wishes them to pay more careful attention to in the future. Roosevelt firmly believes that the president should only be addressed as “Mr. President” or “The President,” and that titles such as “Excellency” are foolish and should not be used. He would like an explanation of the steps being taken to prevent this title’s future use by foreign ambassadors. Roosevelt also criticizes the speech and telegram that had been written for him to deliver to China on the occasion of the deaths of Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi. Normal diplomatic letters frequently strike Roosevelt as fatuous, but in circumstances such as these an effort should be made to craft a sincere message.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt instructs the State Department to submit a telegram instructing Ambassador John George Alexander Leishman to personally thank the Sultan for the rug.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt provides a slight reprimand to the State Department for having sent a telgram to President José Pardo Y Barreda of Peru without first checking with him. He objects to the form of the telegram, and feels that some of the wording should not have been used, as they have drawn criticism from several newspapers. He asks that any similar future telegrams be submitted to him before being sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

The State Department should wire Mr. Carter to say that President Roosevelt does not recall seeing Mr. Mason, he must have been introduced to him in the same manner as other visitors. Also, Roosevelt did not express any opinion about political parties or candidates in Great Britain.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-01

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

W. H. Ellis reports that shortly after his arrival in Addis Ababa he delivered the treaty and President Roosevelt’s letter to Emperor Menelik II. The treaty was well received; Ellis reports that Menelik II informed him that he would soon have a receipt for the same.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-06

Creator(s)

Ellis, W. H.

President Roosevelt strongly objects to being addressed as “Your Excellency” or “Most Excellent President.” Both of these terms were used in the proposed remarks to be given by the new Panamanian minister, Carlos C. Arosemena. The State Department advised on this composition, and Roosevelt instructs them not to include such titles in the future presidential communications they review.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt instructs the United States State Department to make Bellamy Storer special ambassador to Spain in the event of King Alfonso XIII’s wedding.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Series of letters from legal counsel of the New York and Bermudez Company to the United States Department of State, regarding the seizure of the company’s property by Venezuela.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-29

Creator(s)

Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947