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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

President Roosevelt writes Secretary of State Root regarding a treaty of extradition with Russia. Roosevelt believes that they should refuse to give up a Russian-Jewish refugee (most likely Jan Janov Pouren) and that there should never have been an extradition treaty with Russia because their treatment of political dissidents is uncivilized and harsh. Russia’s refusal to issue passports to Jewish people further validates Roosevelt’s unwillingness to extend assistance. The Jewish Committee requests to know if such actions repeal the treaty, a question Roosevelt will let Root decide. Roosevelt asks Root to go over the information so they can discuss it, and explains that he understands the president makes the final decision on such cases.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

President Roosevelt requests that Secretary of State Root address the extradition “of certain alleged political offenders” to Russia. Currently, he is not pleased with the campaign, especially with the revival of the liquor agitation. Additionally, he feels that the Republican National Committee is not well handled. Given William H. Taft’s record and personality, Roosevelt cannot understand why Taft is not more popular. He is still convinced that New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes should be renominated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Henry Percival Dodge to Elihu Root

Letter from Henry Percival Dodge to Elihu Root

Henry Percival Dodge acknowledges receipt of Secretary of State Root’s telegram regarding Chinese laborers recently expelled from Japan and confirms his reply. Per Root’s request, Dodge has sent two copies of the Imperial Japanese Ordinance No. 352 of 1899 and the Home Office Notification No. 42. Dodge lists the facts that he knows about the situation and states that most newspapers have reported the facts of the case but little editorial comment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-12

Creator(s)

Dodge, Henry Percival, 1870-1936

Telegram from John E. Wilkie to William Loeb

Telegram from John E. Wilkie to William Loeb

Secret Service Chief Wilkie informs William Loeb about information in German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg’s letter. Wilkie is very familiar with the informant and many of the people mentioned in the letter. The two that are characterized as most dangerous are in New York “drinking a good deal of beer and doing a good deal of talking.” Nothing about President Roosevelt is mentioned. Wilkie believes the informant is not credible, but he will look after the matter with great care.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-07

Creator(s)

Wilkie, John E. (John Elbert), 1860-1934

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about the Peruvian telegram scandal. A telegram with Roosevelt’s name was written by Assistant Secretary of State Adee and included the phrase “me and my people.” Secretary of State Root did not catch it and the media deemed the phrase evidence of Roosevelt’s megalomaniac tendencies. Roosevelt decided no one was to sign his name but himself from now on. Roosevelt closes the letter with a passage from Charles Dickens that Henry Cabot Lodge gave him.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-03-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay

President Roosevelt is disappointed in Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee’s replies to the telegrams of congratulations, which pertain to Roosevelt’s escape from a carriage accident. Four examples are enclosed from Emperor Franz Joseph I; Leopold II, King of the Belgians; Arthur James Balfour; and George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of the Australian State of Victoria.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Collier Platt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Collier Platt

President Roosevelt says that Senator Platt is mistaken in thinking that Secretary of State John Hay is yielding to political pressure in appointing Herbert H. D. Peirce to replace Thomas W. Cridler in the State Department. Roosevelt and Hay both believe Cridler is not useful and should be given a different position. There is no pressure to replace him with either Peirce or Mr. Jackson. A handwritten note states that the letter was not sent to Platt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt about an incident that happened in the State Department. President José Pardo y Barreda sent a telegram to Roosevelt, but Roosevelt never saw it, as Alvey A. Adee drafted a stock reply to it. Adee used a phrase that attracted significant criticism in the press, and Roosevelt could not explain the matter without revealing that he never saw the telegram in the first place. Roosevelt directed that no one should sign his name for him anymore in the future. President Roosevelt comments to Kermit about a quote from Charles Dickens that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had sent him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julia Ward Howe

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julia Ward Howe

President Roosevelt informs Julia Ward Howe that Washington does not have official etiquette like European capitals do, and thinks that the idea of precedence is “ridiculous” and believes that “the less insistence there is on it the better.” If Howe’s daughter Florence Howe Hall sees Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee, Roosevelt believes she will learn everything there is to know about the subject.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919