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President Roosevelt asks Lieutenant Goethals, Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, to look into R. R. Bowker’s complaints against the commissariat. Roosevelt encloses the letter from Bowker with instructions to take criticism seriously.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-02
President Roosevelt sends Postmaster General Cortelyou a letter from R. R. Bowker. He believes that railroads are overcharging the government compared to express companies and asks how Cortelyou’s investigation is going.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-05
President Roosevelt is “much impressed” by what S. S. McClure says about Charles A. Stillings and would like to compare him to R. R. Bowker to see who is best to appoint to Public Printer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-11
In his message, President Roosevelt has “embodied practically” what Lincoln Steffens said. He is interested in what Steffens says about a few individuals, and asks him to find out if S. S. McClure has “sounded” R. R. Bowker yet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-07
President Roosevelt will write R. R. Bowker and S. S. McClure about the Government Printing Office matter. If Postmaster General Cortelyou has reasons to distrust William Sidney Rossiter, Roosevelt will not appoint him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-19
President Roosevelt is trying to see if Senator Thomas Collier Platt will endorse William Sidney Rossiter for Public Printer. He knows of R. R. Bowker but asks Postmaster General Cortelyou if Bowker is “kind of a mugwump.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-08
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association