Wilson, Edgar S., 1858-1935

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Wilson, Edgar S., 1858-1935

Language

English

If President Roosevelt is correct that only twenty thousand dollars of the six million collected by the IRS in the District of Louisiana and Mississippi is from Mississippi, he cannot consider someone from Mississippi for the appointment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks to Edgar S. Wilson for the telegram and expresses his pleasure with the results in Ohio.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Edgar S. Wilson that Roosevelt would be happy to see him. He is available at his office on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-26

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt thanks Edgar S. Wilson for his letter and for all he has done as marshal. He encloses a photograph of himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

William Loeb encloses a signed copy of President Theodore Roosevelt’s letter to Senator Clark for Elizabeth Buckley Wilson.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-22

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Although President Roosevelt has officially relieved him of his duties as an active advisor regarding political appointments in Mississippi, he would still like Edgar S. Wilson to update him on any issues, or if there is “any falling off in the high character of the government appointees” whom Roosevelt has appointed mainly based on Wilson’s advice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks U.S. Marshal Wilson for the book about L. Q. C. Lamar, but regrets to state he has not received favorable reports about Lamar’s son, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar III.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt would like to appoint a good young man with no official position as marshal of the Northern District. He would prefer a Republican.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt expresses limited support for Wilson’s suggestion that a weekly newspaper in Mississippi would be the best educational instrument for the upbuilding of that state. Roosevelt does not believe that such a paper could benefit him as Mississippi will be against him anyhow.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter of introduction from President Roosevelt to Edgar S. Wilson for Ernest Hamlin Abbott, son of Lyman Abbott of The Outlook.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Mr. Montgomery has resigned and President Roosevelt asks Edgar S. Wilson to recommend a “colored man” as a replacement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Marshal Wilson for the letter and his work during the last year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Roosevelt inquires whether the assistant district attorney should be kept on and whether Kernochan could receive a place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends Edgar S. Wilson a note of recommendation written by President McKinley that Senator Hanna gave him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt encloses letters in behalf of Colonel Magruder. He asks Edgar S. Wilson about Magruder’s drinking habits and whether they are such as to make him unfit for appointment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Edgar S. Wilson for the letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Postmaster Michael J. Mulvihill writes Edgar S. Wilson hoping to prevent T. G. Dabney’s appointment to the Mississippi River Commission. Dabney was Chief Engineer of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-03

Creator(s)

Mulvihill, Michael J. (Michael Joseph), 1855-1935