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President Roosevelt requests that the Interstate Commerce Commission give their immediate attention to the enclosed letter from Brooks Adams, and take action at once, if any action is possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
Senator Lodge returns Brooks Adams’ letter to President Roosevelt. Lodge found the letter to be interesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-09
Frank Harper forwards Matthew Hale a letter from Brooks Adams to Theodore Roosevelt and asks for Hale’s opinion of Adams’s offer to answer Senator Henry Cabot Lodge when Lodge speaks on September 21.
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1912-09-09
President Roosevelt introduces Major Pitcher, Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, to Brooks Adams and his wife Evelyn Davis Adams. Roosevelt asks Pitcher to give them information about the park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-12
President Roosevelt thanks Brooks Adams for his previous letter.
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1904-06-27
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Hamlin Garland that he lives with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He invites Garland to dinner at the Lodge’s the following Monday and lunch with him and Lodge’s brother-in-law, Brooks Adams. Garland and Adams both support free silver.
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1897-04-30
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt chides Cecil Spring Rice for not replying to his or Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s letters and suggests possible reasons why. Roosevelt enjoys his new position, although he will not see much of his family. He is proud of what he accomplished as police commissioner but reached a point where he could not do anything else.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-04-28
Senator Lodge is glad to hear that Secretary of the Navy Victor Howard Metcalf’s quote about him was misrepresented. Regarding what President Roosevelt says about Comptroller Lawrence O. Murray, Lodge says that the thing to do is “weed out the bad men,” which Murray has not done. Rather, Murray has denounced all men, good and bad, in speeches. In response to Roosevelt’s telegram, Lodge says that he can give speeches for three days this month, but that he will only speak in big cities, because he has to miss meetings to give the speeches. In a postscript, Lodge expresses surprise at a meeting Brooks Adams presided over in Quincy, where he praised Roosevelt and William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-17
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt regarding Brooks Adams’s proposal to establish distance rates by law. Lodge considers this destructive to businesses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-01
Seven books are reviewed and one title receives attention because of its reissue in this crowded edition of the “Book Reviews” section. John A. Gable, editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, reviews three works, including an evaluation of Theodore Roosevelt as a politician, a biography of Roosevelt, and a historical novel. Gable likes David H. Burton’s Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician though he disagrees with some of Burton’s analysis, but he is less enthusiastic about H.W. Brands’s T.R.: The Last Romantic, partly because he faults Brands for never properly defining what he means by “romantic.” Gable praises The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr’s sequel to his very popular The Alienist, because both “successfully teach readers about various aspects of American life a century ago.”
Henry J. Hendrix finds that in Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire, William N. Tilchin provides a plethora of evidence to support his thesis that Roosevelt wanted to forge a closer relationship with Great Britain. Michael L. Manson commends the many illustrations used to populate Ron Ziel’s pictorial history of the Spanish-American War, Birth of the American Century. In a brief review, Elizabeth E. Roosevelt says that William T. Hagan’s Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian shows how a range of personalities tried to influence Roosevelt’s stance on Native Americans as both Civil Service Commissioner and President. Gregory A. Wynn criticizes George Grant for trying to pigeonhole Roosevelt as a Christian conservative in his Carry a Big Stick, and he says that the book’s factual errors and exaggerations make it of little value to Roosevelt scholars.
“Book Reviews” notes that William H. Harbaugh’s Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt, “the best one-volume complete biography,” has been reissued in a new hardcover edition. A photograph of Gable and Carr and two photographs of Roosevelt with members of the Rough Riders appear in the section.
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert’s poor address on the Navy and feels Congress does not take war preparedness seriously. The Navy should be increased. Though Republican boss Thomas Collier Platt wants to legislate Roosevelt out of his Police Commissioner job, the legislators are wary of doing so. He recommends reading Brooks Adams’s Civilization and Decay.
1896-03-01