Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

Clara Louise Stone Hay asks President Roosevelt to send any correspondence he had with her late husband, Secretary of State John Hay, to be published in a book along with his other correspondence. While it would not be appropriate to publish letters sent during Roosevelt’s presidency, she would appreciate any he can share from his time as Governor of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Hay agrees to return the letters if desired and offers to send Roosevelt the letters he wrote to her husband since he became President.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-21

Creator(s)

Hay, Clara Louise Stone, 1849-1914

American diplomat Henry White updates President Roosevelt on efforts to have British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice visit Roosevelt to discuss policy on the “far east.” Spring Rice, who had recently met with King Edward VII, will visit Roosevelt but stay with historian Henry Adams instead of at the White House. White also discusses meeting with Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, who hopes to receive command of a new squadron. White also notes anti-Semitic attitudes in Austria and Italy towards Jewish diplomats.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927

Cecil Spring Rice is sailing for Washington, D.C., next week. He would like to stay with Henry Adams and hopes to see Ronald Ferguson.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927

President Roosevelt received a telegram from Ambassador Henry White stating Sir Cecil Spring Rice will sail next Wednesday and requests to stay with Henry Adams and visit Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson. Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Hay to contact Adams and Ferguson on the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt does not understand C. Grant La Farge’s question, but suggests that Henry Adams’s History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison will give the most detailed account of the matter. Concerning Napoleon’s account, Roosevelt urges La Farge to “discriminate between the real and make-believe facts.” Roosevelt believes that Great Britain was worse to the United States than France.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt disagrees with several statements Secretary of State John Hay wrote. While Hay was one of the most “delightful characters” Roosevelt had ever met, he found Hay lacking leadership qualities as a Secretary of State. Roosevelt provides Senator Lodge with his view of the Alaska Boundary dispute in 1903. He includes copies of the letters Roosevelt wrote to Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry White to show to British Secretary of State for the Colonies James Chamberlain and Prime Minister James Arthur Balfour. Roosevelt explains why certain appointments were made following the death of President William McKinley and details for why Hay was not consulted on matters concerning the Russo-Japanese War and the acquisition of Panama.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Mary Augusta Ward for the two books and looks forward to reading them. He was pleased to meet and talk with her at Henry Adams’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Clara Louise Stone Hay he was was pleased to see her son Clarence L. Hay. Roosevelt will return most of her deceased husband’s, Secretary of State John Hay’s, letters to her, and send a few to Henry Adams.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Tati Teuraiterai Salmon for his letter. Roosevelt often thinks of Salmon’s previous visit and hopes he can come again during Roosevelt’s next presidential term.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Henry Cabot Lodge thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his note and for agreeing to write an introduction for his late son George Cabot Lodge’s collected works of poetry. Henry Adams has written a biographical memoir so Roosevelt is free to write merely about Lodge’s poetry and his opinion of him as a man. The Lodge family feels “very great happiness” to have Roosevelt associated with “Bay’s” memory.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-11

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Mary Cadwalader Jones thanks President Roosevelt for all he has done for the country and affirms a universally held good opinion of his character. She and others hope that Roosevelt will run for president again in the future. She asks if she can see Roosevelt before he leaves for his Africa trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-14

Creator(s)

Jones, Mary Cadwalader

George Macaulay Trevelyan is grateful for President Roosevelt’s approval of his last volumes as well as the opportunity for a six-week holiday. During his travels throughout Europe, Trevelyan encountered a number of Americans, whom he mentions to Roosevelt, and remarks how hospitable they are.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-27

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

Justice Holmes has no suggestions to contribute to the letter he agrees with. He did not know that Henry Adams was a judge of Oriental art. He notes a change that Charles Lang Freer has made to a proposition about his art collection.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-18

Creator(s)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-25

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

David H. Burton provides biographies of three Roosevelt women: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Burton emphasizes Edith Roosevelt’s importance to her husband, Theodore Roosevelt, from raising their children to overseeing the renovation of the White House. With Longworth, Burton notes her marriage to Nicholas Longworth and her antipathy to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he says that her influence suffered because “she was never for anything.” Burton highlights Eleanor Roosevelt’s sad childhood but pays attention to, and praises, her considerable humanitarian work both as First Lady and in her later life.

A drawing of Edith Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent and photographs of Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt supplement the text. A text box containing contact information for the Theodore Roosevelt Association also appears in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1996

Stefan H. Rinke explores the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Hermann Speck von Sternburg, the German ambassador to the United States from 1903 to 1908. Rinke notes that the two became friends in the 1880s, and that they shared mutual interests in the outdoors, hunting, and the study of war. Rinke says that Roosevelt’s friendship for Sternburg led to the President’s lobbying the German government to have Sternburg appointed ambassador, but he believes that Sternburg could not significantly improve the relationship between Germany and the United States because Roosevelt was so partial to Great Britain and France.

Photographs of Sternburg and Rinke appear in the article as do two text boxes. One has a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the other notes that this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal is dedicated to Captain Charles S. Abott and the men of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1991

Stephen Fox reviews T. J. Jackson Lear’s No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. Fox lists some of the attributes of the movement as well as some of its well known adherents, and he contends that the conservation movement also belongs to the antimodernist tradition. J. David Valaik finds that Dale L. Walker’s Death Was the Black Horse: The Story of Rough Rider Buckey O’Neill adds little to our knowledge of one of Theodore Roosevelt’s most famous troopers. John A. Gable argues that Richard L. McCormick’s From Realignment to Reform: Political Change in New York State, 1893-1910 provides valuable context for understanding Roosevelt’s political career in the Empire State.

An advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank of Garden City, New York, listing its various branch offices is found at the end of the reviews.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1982

John A. Gable begins the “Book Notes” column with a review of Sylvia Jukes Morris’s biography Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. In doing so, he provides a shorter, but still complete examination of Roosevelt’s life, and highlights the research Morris did utilizing letters, Roosevelt’s diary, and interviews.

Three pictures of Edith Roosevelt are included in the review: one considered the favorite of her husband, Theodore Roosevelt; a drawing by John Singer Sargent; and a third of Edith Roosevelt with Lou Henry Hoover, the wife of Herbert Hoover.

In Gable’s following review of Frederick W. Mark’s Velvet on Iron: The Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt, Gable places the work in the context of other studies of Roosevelt and argues that it represents a further step in an ongoing reappraisal of Roosevelt. He quotes extensively from Marks and from Edmund Morris’s review of the work.

A picture of Roosevelt at his desk at Sagamore Hill accompanies the review.

A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is included among the reviews.

Ambassador White discusses Sir Cecil Spring Rice’s plans to travel to the United States and the issues related to the trip. He also shares information and various updates with President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927