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William Loeb informs Gardiner Martin Lane that his letter has been received and encloses a letter written by President Theodore Roosevelt to Ambassador John George Alexander Leishman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-21
President Roosevelt introduces Oric Bates to Ambassador Leishman and asks that he help Bates and Richard Norton obtain a firman, or permit, to do archaeological digs in Tripoli, Ottoman Empire. Bates and Norton are working for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-21
President Roosevelt informs Ambassador Leishman that Oric Bates is an archaeologist from Harvard University, and asks that he be given any proper help in his present archaeological work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-14
William Sturgis Bigelow thanks President Roosevelt for his help securing archaeological dig permission for Oric Bates and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Bigelow will put a bust of Roosevelt in the Museum with a smaller one of Maecenas beside it. Baroness Lillian May Speck von Sternberg was heartbroken over the result of her auction. After a visit to the theater in Times Square, John called a faint star “futile,” which Bigelow says is “the way stars look from hell.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-22