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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Yates Satterlee

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Yates Satterlee

President Roosevelt invites Bishop Satterlee and his wife, Jane Lawrence Satterlee, to dine at the White House to meet the Bishop of London, Arthur F. Winnington Ingram. Roosevelt also informs the bishop about his plans to attend early Sunday services. If the president does attend the early services, he can say a word of greeting to the Bishop of London, but it would not be a speech and would only be “two minutes’ greeting.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Michael Walsh

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Michael Walsh

President Roosevelt tells Catholic newspaper publisher Michael Walsh that his main point of contention in the recent incident regarding B. Storer and Maria Longworth Storer was the damage done to Archbishop John Ireland. Roosevelt notes that he does not regret anything he stated in the private letters that were recently published. The letter is marked “Private” and Roosevelt scrawls “Not for publication” at the top.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

Theodore Roosevelt writes Charles J. Bonaparte that he was “immensely struck” by the implications in the Archbishop of Mexico’s recent remarks. When asked to speak on the matter, Roosevelt thought it best “to do something, however inadequate, than nothing at all.” Roosevelt wishes President Wilson and the Secretary of State had allowed Secretary of War Garrison to take the “movement his way.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-30

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernest Harvier

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernest Harvier

President Roosevelt thanks Ernest Harvier for the editorial. Roosevelt explains, for Harvier’s information, what the situation was involving Maria Longworth Storer and Archbishops John M. Farley and John Ireland, saying that she began to interfere in the politics of the Catholic Church to such a degree that it appeared that Roosevelt was sanctioning the interference. The final dismissal of her husband, Bellamy Storer, from the ambassadorial service came, however, because they were not answering Roosevelt’s letters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-18

Extract from the pastoral letter of the archbishops and bishops of the United States assbmled in the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore

Extract from the pastoral letter of the archbishops and bishops of the United States assbmled in the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore

This extract of the Pastoral Letter of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore emphasizes a portion of the letter dealing with the association of Bishops’ names with newspapers. The fact that Bishops may publish messages in such newspapers does not give sanction to other articles appearing in the papers, and does not identify the Bishop with the paper. Rather, “it merely designates the paper as one in which the Bishop will cause to be inserted such official documents as he, from time to time, may have to publish.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1866-10

Letter from Dora McLaughlin to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Dora McLaughlin to Theodore Roosevelt

Dora McLaughlin informs Theodore Roosevelt that the St. Anne’s Altar Society holds copyright on a picture of John Henry Tihen—Bishop Elect of Lincoln, Nebraska—and inquires how much money the Outlook would pay for its exclusive use in The Outlook. She is a fan of Roosevelt and his work in spite of his actions in “the Vatican Case,” and she feels that publishing a piece on Tihen will raise Roosevelt’s approval among Catholic voters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-01

Letter from Maria Longworth Storer to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Maria Longworth Storer to Theodore Roosevelt

Maria Longworth Storer has heard that Pope Pius X declined to promote Archbishop John Ireland to Cardinal after interference from Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val, who asserted that President Roosevelt had also advocated for the promotion of Archbishop John M. Farley. As Farley represents a “foreign and reactionary spirit,” Storer does not believe that Roosevelt would have asked for his advancement. If the assertions she heard are untrue, she asks Roosevelt to write the Pope to say so.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-20

The only source from which he gets absolution

The only source from which he gets absolution

Whitelaw Reid, pictured as a bishop, absolves James Gillespie Blaine, who is kneeling on a long list of scandals, at a confessional labeled “Tribune Sanctum.” On the floor between them is a statement published in the “N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 30, 1872” stating, “The startling exposure of Speaker Blaine’s venality in connection with the Union Pacific Road, Eastern Division, entirely destroys, of course, whatever credit some people may have given to his evasive denial of the Oakes Ames bribery, and puts the whole case of the Crédit Mobilier upon a different basis. *** Now it is shown that Speaker Blaine never deserved his good reputation. He has taken bribes in another case.” Caption: W. R. – “I absolve you! Go forth a pure and a guiltless man!” – Puck (aside) – “But that won’t save him on ‘Judgement-Day.'”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-09-03