Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Andrew Carnegie
President Roosevelt thanks and congratulates Andrew Carnegie for his recent donation of $200,000 to Berea College.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-01-26
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Berea College
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William G. Frost
President Roosevelt congratulates William G. Frost, president of Berea College. He tells him that he has written a note of congratulations and thanks to Andrew Carnegie.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-01-26
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William G. Frost
President Roosevelt praises William G. Frost’s work in the southern mountains. He has heard about the emergency at Berea College which necessitates separate schools for African Americans and whites. He hopes that the fund Frost is seeking to establish will solve the problem without interfering with the work being done at Berea.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-01-11
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Louise Holmes Vanderbilt
President Roosevelt thanks Louise Holmes Vanderbilt for the thousand dollars she sent, and describes how he spent and donated it.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-02-04
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Letter from William Loeb to William G. Frost
William Loeb sends William G. Frost of Berea College a check for two hundred dollars from President Roosevelt on behalf of “an unknown friend.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-02-05
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William G. Frost
President Roosevelt wishes President of Berea College William G. Frost luck. He expounds on the virtues of “those mountain people,” and believes that through educational institutes such as Berea College, “all of Appalachian America will prove a storehouse of national vigor and patriotism.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-25
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne
Letter of introduction for President Frost of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Frost would like Mr. Hanson, a trustee at the college, appointed postmaster and President Roosevelt supports Frost’s wishes.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-27
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Letter from Andrew Carnegie to Theodore Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie has donated more than 50 million dollars to libraries and would like to donate to a new cause. He has asked President Roosevelt and several others, including Secretary of State Elihu Root, for ideas. He has been giving to Berea College for several years, and will give more provided its president, William G. Frost, gives funds to a newly-established African American school. To date Carnegie has given between 19 and 20 million dollars to small colleges.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-01-28