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Booker T. Washington asks permission to use President Roosevelt’s name on behalf of a committee to raise funds for a memorial to William H. Baldwin. Roosevelt’s permission will require no additional work or responsibility.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-09
President Roosevelt invites Zaidee Ellis Gaff to participate on the President’s Homes Commission with fifteen other members.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-18
President Roosevelt encloses a report on tenement housing conditions in Washington, D.C., by James Bronson Reynolds. He asks Florence Lathrop Page if she can serve as a member of the new President’s Homes Commission and lists the other proposed members.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-13
President Roosevelt will be glad to help in the memorial for William Henry Baldwin. While he agrees with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp’s advice about the Newsboys’ Magazine, he permits himself “the malicious pleasure” of saying that Leupp’s ideas of the composition of the Panama Canal Commission are wrong.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-12
President Roosevelt sends Ruth Standish Baldwin his sympathy upon the death of her husband, William Henry Baldwin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-04
Frederick Norton Goddard thanks President Roosevelt for his recent hospitality. He plans to get a letter from the company employing Joseph Watkinson to send to Roosevelt to aid in his intention of appointing Watkinson as Inspector. Goddard believes that Roosevelt should speak to Elihu Root regarding the Mayorality of New York, and will remind Roosevelt when Root is back in Washington, D.C. Goddard is interested in being the next Anti-Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York, and has been supported in this by Eugene A. Philbin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-19
Responding to Oswald Garrison Villard’s letter concerning the promotion of General Leonard Wood, President Roosevelt explains how he and Secretary of War Elihu Root make decisions about promoting men in the Army, arguing that promotions should not be based on seniority alone. To illustrate his point, Roosevelt discusses his plans for the two vacant brigadier general positions.
1903-07-17
Edward W. Ordway invites President Roosevelt to join the Philippine Independence Committee. He includes a list of prominent men who have already joined the Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-26
Resolution with multiple signatures encouraging all political parties to adopt resolutions at their national conventions in support of eventual independence for the Philippines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-26
Dwight Braman found that Attorney General Knox had no remedy to suggest last night. Braman suggests the enclosed, and asks that George B. Cortelyou have it typewritten, as he has not brought his stenographer with him. Braman believes the case in question will cost him $25,000, so he welcomes any other proposed solution.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-05