Public schools athletic league of the city of New York
A list of patrons and members of the Public Schools Athletic League.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-08
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas F. Boyle
President Roosevelt writes to San Francisco Board of Education President Boyle and accepts the position of Honorary Vice President of the San Francisco Public Schools Athletic League. Roosevelt supports the League’s goals of providing athletics and physical development for young boys. He writes that athletics should come after the development of the mind, but are important to the overall development of character.
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Creation Date
1908-10-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John R. Van Wormer
President Roosevelt appreciated reading John R. Van Wormer’s speech and invites him to lunch some time to discuss “amateur athletics in general.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-01-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Sullivan
President Roosevelt tells James E. Sullivan that he will agree to serve again as honorary president of the Amateur Athletic Union because he believes “emphatically in you and the other men engaged in the movement.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-12-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Evert Jansen Wendell
President Roosevelt was delighted by the result. He would be glad to receive any or all of both teams and, if there are not too many, will have them to lunch or dinner.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-09-26
Old hotel doorman dead
Timothy Mooney, the doorman at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the Twenty-third Street side, has died of heart disease. In his time as doorman, he greeted a variety of U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt. Also included is an article on the formation of a boys’ athletic association.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-04
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to R. H. Kelsey
President Roosevelt sends a letter to R. H. Kelsey sympathizing with his recent injury sustained while supporting the cause of the Progressive movement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-07-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur J. Harvey
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Arthur J. Harvey for a campaign contribution and for his letter, however, he declines an invitation to write an article about athletics.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-07-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward W. Stitt
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the work of Edward W. Stitt and would be honored to accept the honorary membership that he offered. Roosevelt states that he believes in the important role of vocational training, athletics, and military training in education.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-03-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Walter Camp
Theodore Roosevelt acknowledges that he heard Walter Camp was going to “sunder his connection” from the Athletic Committee, but notes that he is confident that does not mean Camp will lose interest in athletics. Roosevelt responds to a request from Camp to publish one of his letters. He agrees to the request but specifies names of publications and people that are to be omitted from the published text.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-08
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Olin B. Coit
President Roosevelt was concerned to hear about the accident that befell Olin B. Coit’s son, Carl S. Coit, but is pleased that he is doing better. Roosevelt praises Carl S. Coit for his combination of scholarship and athletics.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-12-26
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Sullivan
President Roosevelt congratulates James E. Sullivan on his appointment to the New York Board of Education. He believes that Sullivan can do a great deal of good in conjunction with athletics in public schools.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-26
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt
President Roosevelt comments on and advises Kermit Roosevelt on his athletic abilities and pursuits. He is “up to my ears in work,” which includes dictating speeches. Archibald “Archie” Roosevelt commented that it seems Roosevelt is currently under attack more than at previous times. Roosevelt felt it best to “attack aggressively and fearlessly” in his letter to the Moyer-Haywood Defense Association. He finds comfort in having Secretary of War William H. Taft and Secretary of State Elihu Root with him and hopes Taft will be nominated for president.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-04-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles William Eliot
President Roosevelt reassures Harvard President Eliot that he did not believe Eliot’s report was an answer to his speech. Roosevelt asks Eliot to bring Edgar Huidekoper Wells with him to Washington, D.C., so they can meet others and talk. The two men “are not as far apart as people believe as regards athletics.” Eliot will agree with Roosevelt on the Brownsville affair once he knows more.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-03-11
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Frederick John North
President Roosevelt is grateful that William Frederick John North remembered him and his family, and asks if his wife still rides to the hounds. He asks after North’s children and tells him that his future son-in-law, Nicholas Longworth, was on the Harvard rowing crew.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Sullivan
President Roosevelt thanks James E. Sullivan for the badges. He wishes that when convenient, Sullivan would come speak with him about “continued questions of amateur athletics.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-11-22
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Reid
President Roosevelt was pleased by William T. Reid’s letter. He agrees the focus of athletics should be efficiency and sportsmanship instead of too much athleticism. Reid’s decision to attend Harvard would please Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-02-10
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. S. Thompson
President Roosevelt will engage Matthew Hale, his kinsman by marriage, as a tutor for his son Ted. Roosevelt was impressed by all the Harvard men that H. S. Thompson recommended.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-09-27
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt is pleased that Theodore Roosevelt has a high standing in his class at Groton School but reemphasizes that athletics must be subordinate to study and work. Renown is behaving better around automobiles and Roosevelt rewards his good behavior with lumps of sugar. Roosevelt continues to struggle with the “very wealthy people” and the trade unionists.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-10-24
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt compares Theodore Roosevelt’s success in athletics to his own time in the New York Assembly. President Roosevelt is pleased with the Alaska boundary award and believes that a decisive factor in the arbitration was the British understanding of the consequences that would follow a disagreement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-10-20