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President Roosevelt forwards a letter from Gifford Pinchot to Mary Clare de Graffenried. He does not want to put Edwin Anderson Alderman, president of the University of North Carolina, on and believes Bennehan Cameron is a better candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-02
President Roosevelt cannot write the letter that Washington Lee University president George H. Denny asks for, as he has already promised such a letter to president of University of Virginia Edwin Anderson Alderman and Thomas Nelson Page.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-12
Nicholas Murray Butler informs Theodore Roosevelt of the general good feeling towards Roosevelt at a luncheon attended by Butler and southern politicians. Butler stresses that Roosevelt’s standing in the South has greatly improved upon his reelection and suggests some steps Roosevelt can take to cement that relationship.
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1904-12-16
President Roosevelt weighs in on who should be appointed as judge in North Carolina. He initially intends to advise against President-Elect Taft’s suggestion of Edward W. Timberlake, but, after hearing from a number of prominent southerners who back him up, agrees that Timberlake is the best choice for the job.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-07
President Roosevelt cannot serve on the advisory board, but will write a letter for Duncan Clinch Heyward. Roosevelt suggests Heyward contact University of Virginia president Edwin Anderson Alderman, as he was the one who originally suggested writing the letter about Robert E. Lee. Heyward is heading the movement to commemorate the centennial of Lee’s birth.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-02
President Roosevelt thanks John J. McCook for his letter and Colonel Bingham’s address. The president plans to see Edwin Anderson Alderman soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-17
President Roosevelt has invited three southerners–Judge Thomas Goode Jones, University of Virginia President Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Silas McBee–as well as Nicholas Murray Butler and Lyman Abbott to dinner on January 6. Roosevelt would like to discuss his plans for what to say at the Lincoln Day dinner and thinks he might draw from Abraham Lincoln in his text.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-19
President Roosevelt invites Judge Jones to join him, Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Silas McBee on January 6 for dinner and a stay overnight to discuss Southern matters.
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1904-12-19
President Roosevelt invites Silas McBee to join Judge Thomas Goode Jones, Edwin Anderson Alderman, and Roosevelt for dinner on January 6, to discuss issues pertaining to the South.
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1904-12-19
President Roosevelt asks if Silas McBee knows Joel Chandler Harris, who he thinks is a great writer and moral teacher. If Roosevelt wins the election, he would like to get McBee, Harris, and “two or three others” to visit him at the White House to discuss policy regarding the South.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-14
Bernard E. Sunny, a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, conveys a request from Lewis K. Torbet asking whether it would be possible for Theodore Roosevelt to deliver an address to the Daughters of the American Revolution when he is in Chicago. Sunny provides an overview of the full day of events the Union League Club already has scheduled, but acknowledges Roosevelt’s “facility for crowding a good deal into a little space,” and says the club will do its best to accommodate any outside requests Roosevelt decides to accept.
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1910-09-26
John Graham Brooks thanks President Roosevelt for his letter on Alfred Holt Stone. He had already gotten letters about Stone’s Studies in the American Race Problem from Edwin Anderson Alderman, Walter Hines Page, and William Garrott Brown. Brooks also received another edition of Socialism & Individualism. He told Lawrence F. Abbott that it is the most powerful work he has seen in thirty years of reading socialist literature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-16
Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook, hopes President Roosevelt found their recent meeting worthwhile, while admitting that he felt the discussion over terminology was a waste of time. Nevertheless, he found the fact that there were no major suggestions as to the content of Roosevelt’s address reassuring. Abbott suspects that, from what newspapers reported, Roosevelt’s recent conference on tariffs was not similarly worthwhile.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-10
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-05