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Charlotte Matson asks Theodore Roosevelt to what use the money won from his Nobel Peace Prize was put. A lecturer speaking on the Nobel Prize asked the audience to find out how Roosevelt used the prize money, but Matson has limited resources so she is asking Roosevelt directly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Jennie Allender Rightmire heard Theodore Roosevelt is on the Board that decides who wins the Carnegie Prize for heros and is writing to Roosevelt regarding her step-son, Robert A. Rightmire, an electrical lineman in Hutchinson, Kansas. His father is a Civil War veteran who came home from the war disabled and when his mother died, Robert was forced to grow up quickly. Jennie Rightmire believes Robert Rightmire would use the prize worthily and not waste it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-01
A decree presenting Theodore Roosevelt Jr. a first class medal of honor in 1943 by the Bey of the Kingdom of Tunisia.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1943-10-30
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates William T. Hornaday on being recognized by Yale University.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-27
President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews that the enclosed letter, regarding his appointment as a Knight of the Legion of Honor, “explains itself.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-08
President Roosevelt has spoken to Ambassador J. J. Jusserand about Brander Matthews receiving the Legion of Honor from the French government, as both Roosevelt and Peter Townsend Barlow desire for him. Jusserand assured Roosevelt that it would be done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-05
Baron Rosen asks Secretary of State Bacon to arrange an audience with President Roosevelt for Count Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich, who hopes to present Roosevelt with a gift in recognition of his contributions at the Portsmouth Conference on behalf of the Slav Benevolent Society of Moscow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-14
Henry Lane Wilson describes the presentation of a diploma for President Roosevelt from the International Olympic Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-03
Secretary of War Taft jokingly tells President Roosevelt that he was unaware that the president had received a medal of honor from the Philippines Exposition of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and that the president is of now the same class as Taft’s wife Helen and everyone on the Philippine Islands. Taft says he could not have stopped Dr. Gustav Niederlein’s reckless awarding of medals and would be glad to talk to Roosevelt about it later.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-06
Pierre de Coubertin writes to congratulate President Roosevelt on the election results, to thank him for letting Coubertin dedicate his latest book (the first copy of which was sent with the letter), and to inform Roosevelt that the will be awarded a “diplome d’honneur” from the IOC as “the greatest living sportsman.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-11
President Roosevelt rejoices that Mayor Wells has given him the keys to the city of St. Louis. A teddy bear holds the keys while a policeman prevents Thomas Henry Carter, Henry Clark Corbin, and former President Grover Cleveland from exiting a building.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-02
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about the latest German offensive and visiting Archie Roosevelt’s wife Gracie and their new baby. He has enclosed a newspaper clip of the occasion. He says Archie’s wounding garnered a lot of attention in America. Roosevelt tells stories about two of his grandchildren, Richard and Edie and says Colonel Rondon was awarded the gold medal by the American Geographic Society.
1918-04-08
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Historian Ray h. Mattison receives a Department of the Interior award from Superintendent Warren D. Hotchkiss inside the South Unit visitor center of the park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-02-15
President Roosevelt calls for marksmanship prizes to be given to the most accurate big-gun crews in the Navy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-04
A series of nine vignettes shows men putting themselves at risk in one way or another. One man gets up in the middle of the night to attend to a screaming infant, another tests breakfast cereals, a third dares to enter the kitchen to reprimand the cook, others survive the street railroads, one suffers the attack of mosquitoes, while others endure rude opera attendees, rural life, and a tour guide. At center, each “hero” receives a pension from Andrew Carnegie who is wearing a traditional Scottish kilt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-08-24
This certificate commemorates Quentin Roosevelt who “laid down his life” in taking active service in the United States Army, 1st Lieutenant in the 95th Aero Squadron. It is signed by John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-07-14
Robert B. Nelson tells Edith Roosevelt that he won the Quentin Roosevelt Prize at Episcopal High School. He writes that he will try “to live up to the high standard” symbolized by the prize. Envelope included.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1925-06-07
Chester Noyes Greenough, the Acting Dean at Harvard College, reports that Quentin Roosevelt is to be awarded a posthumous A.B. degree for “honorable service in the war.” He offers congratulations and sympathy. Letterhead: “Harvard College”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1919-06-13
Raymond Poincaré, president of France, writes to Theodore Roosevelt to send a French diploma (which French soldiers receive) in honor of Quentin Roosevelt and his death.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-09-3
Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, places a medal on Abram S. Hewitt in honor of his “Good Citizenship.”
The specific occasion of this cartoon was to join the New York City Chamber of Commerce in its honoring of Abram S. Hewitt with a gold medal on his 78th birthday. The theme of their praise was Hewitt’s pioneering work in designing and building New York’s first underground rail system. However his accomplishments were many: industrialist, railroad builder, philanthropist, member of Congress, mayor of New York City, and benefactor of Cooper Union, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. He was the son-in-law of industrialist and civic reformer Peter Cooper, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt’s father. The paths of Hewitt and the future President Roosevelt crossed in other ways: when young Theodore ran for New York City mayor in 1886, Hewitt was the Democratic (and unsuccessful) candidate. A third-party candidate, Socialist Henry George, placed second. Hewitt was also an investor in Badlands cattle businesses when Roosevelt had his ranches there, although the elderly patrician Hewitt never rode the range.