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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Alberto B. Martínez, Director General of Municipal Statistics, for the annual report of Buneos Aires’ population which he sent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-24
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Tomás Amadeo for the invitation to write for the Bulletin of Pan American Union, but declines the invitation due to his workload.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt tells Edmund Heller he will send Archie to Banff. Roosevelt asks if Heller will visit Kermit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt advises Paul M. Hollister to wire or write Kermit Roosevelt for help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-15
Theodore Roosevelt was glad to receive the record of the Argentine riflemen. He will be speaking at their military club in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now knows just what to say.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-09-29
The chargé d’affaires of the German Empire at Buenos Aires, Argentina, praises the manner in which Secretary of State Elihu Root handled his visit to that city as part of his tour of South America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-24
Reginald Roosevelt Leaycraft, Theodore Roosevelt’s cousin, requests a meeting with him to obtain letters of introduction to the former and present ministers to Argentina, Charles Hitchcock Sherrill and John R. Carter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-09
Senator Beveridge congratulates and compliments Secretary of State Root on his recent speeches in Kansas City and Buenos Aires.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-24
Secretary of State Root will be leaving Buenos Aires this afternoon. Root let the Chilean government know that he will limit his visit to a condolence call after the “terrible calamity” of an earthquake they just experienced.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-19
Nelson P. Webster forwards a telegram from Edward Charles O’Brien, American Minister to Uruguay, reporting that Secretary of State Elihu Root’s declarations before the Rio de Janeiro congress have been enthusiastically applauded by the newspapers. The newspaper reports say Root’s declarations “obliterate” false impressions and prejudices about the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-03
John Barrett writes to President Roosevelt before his historic diplomatic trip with Elihu Root through Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. Barrett is working with President Reyes and other leaders to create a peace treaty between Colombia, Panama, and the United States. The Colombians seek concessions from Panama and the U.S., including free passage of Colombian shipping through the Panama Canal. In return Colombia will have a “favorable attitude” to shipping interests in the United States. Barrett includes his itinerary for his trip through Ecuador.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-02
Robert Bacon encloses a dispatch from the Legation of Buenos Aires that includes a clipping from La Nacion, a translation of a letter from President Roosevelt to Dr. Miguel F. Rodriguez.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-26
Kermit Roosevelt discusses a recent trip to Europe. Roosevelt criticizes Mr. Bacon’s inability to handle the excessive death associated with the World War. He describes to his father the state of various countries in Europe, and discusses Spain’s pro-German sentiments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915
Theodore Roosevelt tells George von Lengerke Meyer he is not sure there is anything to be done to make things better in politics. Roosevelt believes Republican leaders “stole the nomination” in Chicago, Illinois, and that such action “creates a train of evil consequences so extensive that it is almost impossible by any single act afterwards to undo the evil.” It was extraordinary to see men such as Bishop William Lawrence and President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University “explicitly or implicitly, endorse the lowest forms of political immorality.” Roosevelt compares the Progressive platform to that of Abraham Lincoln and the early Republicans, and accuses the men who object to these principles of being the “spiritual heirs of the Cotton Whigs.” He believes that what happened in Chicago makes it likely that Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic Party will win the fall presidential election. When Roosevelt returns, he would like for Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg to visit him.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-10-07
Kermit Roosevelt appreciates the letters from Robert Harry Munro and Isabella Ferguson. He would like to visit Cat Canyon and see Martha and Robert Munro Ferguson.
1913-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt was relieved that the report of R. J. Cuninghame’s death was false. He has been reluctant to write due to the terrible tragedy of the war, through which he feels totally out of sympathy with the actions of the Wilson administration. Roosevelt completed a trip down an unknown South American river, the River of Doubt, earlier in 1914. There was not much shooting and he became very sick but made it through. Kermit Roosevelt has married and works at a bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ethel Roosevelt Derby and Richard Derby are running a hospital in Paris, France.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-28