Letter from John Ellis Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
There will be a meeting of the directors of Broadway Improvement Company on October 8.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-02
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Letter from Newton M. Shaffer to Theodore Roosevelt
Dr. Shaffer is sending President Roosevelt a special chair that will allow “easy transportation up or down stairs” via “two steady pairs of hands.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-02
Letter from Daniel Edgar Sickles to Theodore Roosevelt
General Sickles is confident that President Roosevelt can settle the Anthracite Coal Strike with a firm attitude.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-02
Letter from William Allen White to Theodore Roosevelt
William Allen White has written an article about President Roosevelt for the Saturday Evening Post. He hopes that he can help Roosevelt as a journalist and private citizen.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-02
Letter from Herbert G. Squiers to John Hay
Minister Squiers encloses Lieutenant Matthew Elting Hanna’s report concerning “sanitary, social, political, and economical conditions in Santiago.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from Stuyvesant Fish to Theodore Roosevelt
Stuyvesant Fish corrects an error in a previous letter regarding coal carrying statistics of American railroad companies.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from Philip C. Garrett to Theodore Roosevelt
Philip C. Garrett encloses a copy of a letter he sent to Governor Stone. He recommends strict enforcement of the law and severe punishments for miners who are using intimidation to prevent the mines from opening.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from George W. Perkins to the officers and employees of the United States Steel Corporation
George W. Perkins, Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, reviews a new profit-sharing plan.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-31
Letter from Philander C. Knox to Theodore Roosevelt
Attorney General Knox offers suggestions for President Roosevelt’s statement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from Philander C. Knox to George B. Cortelyou
Several prominent Alabama Republicans have requested that the appointment of Thomas Roulhac as District Attorney for Alabama be delayed until after the November election.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from John Markle to Theodore Roosevelt
John Markle requests that President Roosevelt use the military to stop the “anarchistic condition of affairs” in the anthracite coal fields. He reports widespread lawlessness and twenty one murders committed by the striking miners. Markle claims that a majority of miners are still trying to work and that John Mitchell’s organization is a small minority which is holding fellow workers and the nation hostage through violence.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from John Mitchell to Theodore Roosevelt
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America will agree to let the miners resume work provided that the new wages, agreed upon by a tribunal of President Roosevelt’s selection, be paid from the first day of resuming work.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from William H. Moody to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy Moody thanks President Roosevelt for his criticism on the size of the report from the Bureau of Naval Intelligence, particularly since he had the same concerns.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-03
Letter from Robert Bacon to Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Bacon encourages President Roosevelt and compares his difficulties to those of prior statesmen.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from Henry V. Boynton to George B. Cortelyou
Henry V. Boynton commends President Roosevelt’s handling of the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from John Byrne to Theodore Roosevelt
John Byrne does not believe that arbitration will settle the Anthracite Coal Strike, but a truce is possible. He suggests that President Roosevelt appeal to the miners to return to work in the interests of the public. This would address the immediate threat and provide time to call together a committee of sensible business men to settle the larger questions underlying the strike.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from Grover Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland has been following the arbitration of the Anthracite Coal Strike and believes both parties are in the wrong. He suggests that limited coal production be instituted so consumers can be satisfied while the two parties continue to work out their differences.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from James B. Connolly to Theodore Roosevelt
James B. Connolly is glad President Roosevelt enjoyed his stories of the Gloucester fishermen. He believes these men represent a type of manly virility that is good for the nation. Connolly enjoyed The Virginian but has not read Blazed Trail, which Roosevelt recommended.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from John Carl Dueber to George B. Cortelyou
John Carl Dueber claims to have experience settling strikes and would like to present President Roosevelt with his plan to end the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-04
Letter from John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of State Hay has “got Payne and lost Root.” He asks if there is anyone else President Roosevelt would like.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-20