Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott belatedly expresses his appreciation for his being able to attend the labor dinner. The articles that President Roosevelt returned to The Outlook have been received. The magazine will follow Roosevelt’s wishes, but Abbott states that they would like to print the papers Roosevelt leaves at least within six months of his departure for Africa. Abbott has also received Roosevelt’s letter on women’s suffrage, which he will show to his father, Lyman Abbott, when he sees him on Thanksgiving.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-25

List of people to be invited

Robert J. Collier suggests an edited list of people to invite to a breakfast in honor of President Roosevelt before he leaves on his safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-04

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott thinks it is interesting that colleges, which are so strong in their teaching of science, can be so weak in their teaching of literature and journalism. He asks if President Roosevelt knows whether he will be attending an editorial conference on March 10 or March 17, as his father, Lyman Abbott, will be out of the country for a time but wishes to return to attend the same session as Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-10

Roosevelt to be an editor next?

The New York Times has heard on good authority that President Roosevelt has made a contract to become an associate editor of The Outlook after he retires from the presidency. It has been announced that Roosevelt has signed an exclusive contract with Charles Scribner’s Sons to publish his account of hunting big game in Africa. The author of the article speculates that Roosevelt may be intending to travel to the Congo Free State to report on stories of cruelty in the rubber trade there.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-19

Leading and prominent citizens’ response to plan to establish an educational monument to the memory of Senator Hanna

Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-27

List of American Members of the League for International Conciliation

List of unknown origin titled “American Members of the League for International Conciliation,” enclosed with a letter created by Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler. Andrew Carnegie and Andrew D. White are listed as “Honorary Presidents,” 12 people are listed under “Council of Direction,” and 46 people are listed as “Members.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-05

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott shares that President Roosevelt’s “letter of friendship and sympathy was a source of real comfort” to his father, Lyman Abbott. Roosevelt’s letters to newspaper editor Edgar Williams and David Scull of Bryn Mawr College arrived. Abbott, and therefore The Outlook, do not share Scull’s and Williams’s anxieties, as evidenced by the articles he attaches. Finally, he thanks Roosevelt for suggesting Judge Thomas Goode Jones’s letters regarding the railway issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-28

The last stand – science versus superstition

“Newton, Abbott, Briggs, Savage, [and] Adler,” and one man holding a flag that states “Think or be Damned” stand behind a machine gun labeled “History, Archaeology, Evolution, Enlightenment, [and] Geology.” They stand among boxes of ammunition labeled “Scientific Facts, Historical Facts, [and] Rational Religion.” They take aim at a group of clergy on the drawbridge of a castle. The clergymen are labeled “Medieval Dogmatism” and are armed with halberds and a banner that states “Believe or be Damned.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-07-19

The Indian medicine show

Theodore Roosevelt, as an Indian medicine man, beats a drum labeled “The New Nationalism” while standing in a cart with “Publisher Howland” and “Editor Abbott” who are selling bottles of “Outlook Tonic” hailed as “Nature’s Remedy for All Ailments.” On Roosevelt’s chest is the head of an elephant. Caption: The populace is privileged to step up and buy at any time.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-11-02

The Republican evangelist

Theodore Roosevelt is pictured as an evangelist preaching from “My Policies” in a tent with “Sherman, Cannon, Aldrich, Ballinger, Aldridge, Barnes, [and] Woodruff” sitting on the left, and “Depew, Lodge, [and] Odell” sitting on the right. “Crane”, who had been sitting on the right, has gotten up and is walking out. “Beveridge” is standing in the back at the entrance to the tent, and Dr. Abbott is next to Roosevelt, playing a piano. Across the tent hangs a banner that states, “Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour, but look out for the 8th of November.” Caption: And the sinners who won’t be saved.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-09-07

The village blacksmith

On the left is Theodore Roosevelt, hand resting on a sledgehammer labeled “My Policies,” standing at the entrance to his shop “T. Roosevelt Horseshoer & Wheelwright” with “Dr. Abbott” at his side. A sign on the wall states, “Autos, Air-ships & Bicycles Repaired.” Road signs labeled “Republican Turnpike” are pointing into the background. At center and right is a jumble of ruined vehicles. A small wagon labeled “Direct Primaries” is being pulled in opposite directions by “Gov. Hughes” and “Wadsworth.” “Beveridge” gestures toward a wagon labeled “Indiana Campaign” that has lost a wheel. President Taft is driving a sulky labeled “Aldrich Tariff,” drawn by the Republican elephant, that has lost the rim to one wheel. A woman labeled “Woman’s Suffrage” is holding a bicycle with damaged tires. “La Follette” is pointing to the foot of a horse labeled “Wisconsin Campaign.” “Parsons” and “Woodruff” are in an automobile that has had an accident, while “Murdock” appears to be kicking one of the tires. An airplane labeled “Conservation,” with “Pinchot” and “Garfield” on board, has crashed into a tree labeled “Ballinger.” Also in the mix is a man labeled “Poindexter,” and in the background is “Penrose” walking away from an automobile accident labeled “Pennsylvania.” In the lower left corner is the shadow of the Democratic donkey.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-08-03

Address of Vice President Roosevelt, Minnesota State Fair, Minneapolis, Sept. 2nd, 1901

Draft of a speech with handwritten corrections. Vice President Roosevelt advocates for a vigorous policy at home and abroad of seeking justice and battling “barbarism” exemplified by the proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick–you will go far.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1901-09-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles H. Clark

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Charles H. Clark to arrange a meeting in a few days with him, Judge Abbott, Judge Conger, Mr. Finnegan, and Andrew Tuck.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-25

Letter from James Russell Parsons to Elbert F. Baldwin

James Russell Parsons discusses the plans of Charles Rufus Skinner, New York State superintendent of public instruction, to reorganize New York’s educational system. While Skinner’s plan for unification might have negative consequences, Parsons believes it has the potential to reduce friction between departments and increase efficiency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-08

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott clarifies that a reference to ex-Postmaster General, which was made in an article in The Outlook about the Post Office fraud case, was in reference to James N. Tyner. Abbott plans to include information from President Roosevelt’s letter, about the publication of the Post Office report, in the next edition of the magazine. Abbott is awaiting the decision concerning Leonard Wood’s promotion to major general.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-14

Letter from William Bailey Howland to Theodore Roosevelt

William Bailey Howland writes that Senator John C. Spooner of Wisconsin will be writing the introduction to the book The Life of the President per President Roosevelt’s suggestion. Howland was pleased to meet Roosevelt’s daughter Alice at a recent luncheon and sends regards to the first lady.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-11

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott assures President Roosevelt that he received his letter and enclosures. Abbott will forward the materials to his father, Lyman Abbott. Lawrence Abbott describes the Arthur P. Gorman campaign in Maryland as “extraordinary.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-30

Letter from James Rudolph Garfield to Theodore Roosevelt

James Rudolph Garfield, Commissioner of Corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, acknowledges receipt of copies of letters from President Roosevelt. He approves of Roosevelt’s methods of dealing with the Senate, and feels the public does not understand the complicated relationship between the two. In a postscript Garfield writes that he received General Leonard Wood’s letter about the articles, and there is no need to answer such attacks. If the Senate asks for the records the truth will come to light.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-15

Letter from Ernest Hamlin Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Ernest Hamlin Abbott responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry concerning The Outlook’s editorial on Roosevelt’s resolution of the threatened bookbinders’ strike and encloses documents Roosevelt had sent to Abbott’s father, Lyman Abbott.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-04

Letter from Lyman Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lyman Abbott encloses a newspaper item he had promised to send to President Roosevelt. If the President writes a response, Abbott would like to publish it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-06-30