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A page from the Topeka Daily State Journal featuring a highlighted section of reminiscences of Frank P. MacLennan’s recent meeting and luncheon with Theodore Roosevelt, several editors and businessmen from The Outlook, and others in New York. Also included in the section titled “Chapter LII” is information about Roosevelt’s insistence he has no intention to be nominated as a Republican candidate in the upcoming election, Taft’s fight against big business, and LaFollette’s campaign efforts as the presidential election approaches.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-20

Typed copy of a telegram from an unknown individual requesting the condition and prospects of President McKinley, who had been shot the previous day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-07

Scrap of paper with the name W. P. Gardner” and an address– “80 Broadway N.Y.”– written on it. A shorthand note is in the upper right-hand corner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-22

The Boy Scouts of America, through a letter by the executive secretary James E. West, responds to criticism from labor unions and describes it as a product of two areas of misinformation. The first is the confusion of the Boy Scouts of America with the American Boy Scout, the latter being a youth military organization. The second concerns the Scout Manual, which was adopted from the English Scout Manual and contains misrepresentative language. The Boy Scouts of America rewrote their manual to respond to labor criticism. The Boy Scouts of America believe that no American would have issue with the organization once the true aim and scope of it is understood.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-18

The Boy Scouts of America acknowledge the shortcomings of the Scout Manual derived from the English manual and says it contained things, “not in harmony with the spirit of American Institutions.” Labor unions opposed the Boys Scouts because they perceived anti-union sentiments in the Scout’s Oath and Scout Law. In response, the Boy Scouts formed a committee, lead by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, to rewrite the manual. The Boy Scouts of America present the old and new manuals side by side to clearly show the changes made.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-18

A report conducted by Matthew P. Breen detailing the results of the 1900 presidential election, 1898 gubernatorial election, and projecting the power of the newly proposed Democratic organization in next fall’s election. He projects a union ticket will defeat the candidate nominated by Tammany Hall.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-25

Ticket of admittance to a woman’s mass meeting against protected vice in New York on March 17.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-17

Theodore Roosevelt informs Ida M. Tarbell that he has to decline W. Walter Tarbell’s invitation to speak at the Fifty Club in Philadelphia, because he has received more than five-thousand invitations to speak in the last year. It is simply impossible for him to make any speaking arrangements at this time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-01-31

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary asks Frederick Muller to clarify if he knows a man named Stephen Easton, who claims he was a Rough Rider.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-02-01

Theodore Roosevelt introduces James Keeley to Charles A. Pinney, who he mentions is the head of the Chicago branch of the

Order of Railway Conductors of America. He praises Pinney’s trustworthiness and explains that he believes it would be useful to Keeley to get in touch. He wishes Keeley would get in touch with Edwin Walter Sims.