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If Howard Richards provides the information and facts concerning the education of the Chinese, President Roosevelt will see if he can write the letter as suggested by Lyman Abbott.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-29
President Roosevelt congratulates Lawrence F. Abbott and his wife Winifred Buck Abbott on their automobile and wishes he could have attended the fair. Since he is writing for Scribner’s Magazine while in Africa, Roosevelt does not think he should write anything for The Outlook. He will, however, accumulate materials to write about for The Outlook at a later time. He recommends both Lawrence F. Abbott and Lyman Abbott read Holman Day’s article on prohibition, which he says shows the need for a local option.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-22
President Roosevelt updates Henry Cabot Lodge on personal and political matters. Roosevelt feels obligated to enjoy a series of essays by Westerlick because his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, assumes he would not care for them; the puzzling problem of the re-nomination for Charles Evans Hughes for governor of New York; the plans for Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari, and his desire to tour Europe on the way home as a private citizen without pomp; his plans to write for Scribner’s and The Outlook post-presidency, and his reasoning for selecting those offers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-08
President Roosevelt explains to Lawrence F. Abbott why he does not want public use made of the letters and telegrams he sent to Abbott. The president will explain more in detail when he sees Abbott or his father, Lyman Abbott, about the conversations Roosevelt had with Cornelius Newton Bliss and Senator Philander C. Knox regarding campaign donations from corporations or individuals connected with corporations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-17
President Roosevelt sends Lawrence F. Abbott, editor of The Outlook, his correspondence with Judge Thomas Goode Jones, who he is “glad that I have backed up.” The Sun’s recent turn against the Navy surprised Roosevelt, and he would like to discuss the matter with Abbott and his brother, Ernest Hamlin Abbott. Roosevelt extends an invitation to stay at the White House to Abbott’s father, Lyman Abbott. The Outlook continually provides excellent points, which Roosevelt draws on.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-29
President Roosevelt tells Frank M. Chapman about a yellow-throated warbler he recently shot, and invites him to come visit next spring when the birds are here. Roosevelt appreciated Chapman’s editorial in Bird Lore regarding the nature fakers controversy and laments that people like The Outlook editor Lyman Abbott are accepting the stories of William J. Long and other fakers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-26
President Roosevelt expresses his condolences to Lawrence F. Abbott on the occasion of his mother’s death.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-23
President Roosevelt is so struck by the “sanity” of Judge Anderson’s letter that he has sent it to Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-27
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Lyman Abbott, supporting his suggestion that Attorney General Bonaparte write an article on the goals and accomplishments of Roosevelt’s second term.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
Vahan Cardashian writes to Andrew D. White expressing his concerns about the persecution Armenians are facing under the Turkish government and his fears the violence will escalate. He hopes White will be one of several other prominent men to form a committee that will weild their power to advocate for Armenian rights.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-12
Lawrence F. Abbott and his brother Ernest Hamlin Abbott would be pleased to join President Roosevelt for lunch on September 10th. When he returns in the fall, Abbott’s father Lyman Abbott would surely like to visit Roosevelt at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-04
Ernest Hamlin Abbott, editor of The Outlook, compares the Abbott family to the Republican Party in that both “can present a united front . . . but still be torn with internal strife.” Abbott has already shown President Roosevelt’s letter to his brother Lawrence F. Abbott, and will try to show it to his father, Lyman Abbott, when he returns from a trip. He jokes that “it will be useless for [him] to try to induce Lyman Abbott, 2nd,” Lawrence F. Abbott’s newborn son, to read Roosevelt’s letter. Ernest Hamlin Abbott and his brother Lawrence Abbott “like immensely” Roosevelt’s Provincetown speech and feel it will positively impact national views on controlling corporations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-27
Nicholas Murray Butler updates President Roosevelt on the progress being made to establish the Association for International Conciliation, with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The peace work of the association is to be done as quietly as possible and in accordance with the wishes of Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root. In addition, Butler offers Roosevelt his support in regard to the Brownsville affair and encourages Roosevelt to keep up a “stiff front” to the “Senate oligarchy.” Butler also shares his observations regarding how railroad officials are trying to make the new railroad rate law unpopular, but concludes that, despite challenges, the law will succeed in the end.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-21
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp thanks President Roosevelt for sending the letter from Colonel Brown. Leupp had hoped to appoint Brown to a superintendency before discovering that the law prohibited the appointment of retired officers of Brown’s pay grade. Leupp asks Roosevelt to make inquiries into the matter with the Attorney General and thanks Roosevelt for making similar inquiries regarding the extension of trust patents for Native Americans. Leupp encloses a letter from Reverend Abbott discussing materials pertaining to contracts with Indian parochial schools, as well as a letter from Darwin R. James who has found a candidate for the superintendency of the Indian Warehouse of New York. Leupp has visited and “stirred up” the Winnebago and Klamath Reservations and looks forward to entertaining Roosevelt with an account of his adventures.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-23
Ernest Hamlin Abbott writes to President Roosevelt expressing his frustration with the Congressional attitude toward the Arbitration treaties.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-07
Lawrence F. Abbott tells President Roosevelt that his father, Lyman Abbott, is currently out of town. Lawrence will speak with George B. Cortelyou tomorrow, and will arrange for his father to see him when he returns.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-03
President Roosevelt tours Asia with tracts in his hand and his bag labeled, “T. Roosevelt U. S. A.” and a “big stick” under his arm. He is followed by men holding hymnals as foreigners run away. Minarets and Mount Fuji can be seen in the distance. Caption: “Is this to be President Roosevelt’s future? To tour the Orient with the big stick and blaze the way for American missionaries.”
The background of this cartoon has to do with more than President Roosevelt’s declaration, made on election night of 1904, that he would not seek a consecutive term after the one to which he had just been elected, but his agreement to be a regular post-presidency contributor to The Outlook, a weekly Christian magazine of opinion and news, was generally known.
Newspaper clipping announcing a dinner given by President Roosevelt in honor of William H. Taft.
1902-02-06
This article from the “Jewish Advocate” criticizing an article from The Outlook regarding Jews and the Russian passport question. It also criticizes the views of Dr. Lyman Abbott and Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to throw the issue in The Hague.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1911-11-17
Article discusses Dr. Lyman Abbott speaking at University of Wisconsin, on democracy and religion. Article is incomplete.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1911-11-18