Letter from C. Newton Dubs
C. Newton Dubs describes tensions associated with religious conversion in China.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-02
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Boxer Rebellion (China : 1899-1901)
Letter from Robert J. Collier to Theodore Roosevelt
Robert J. Collier asks President Roosevelt to write letters to the Secretary of State on behalf of photographers preparing to cover the “Eastern Crisis.” Collier recalls Roosevelt and his father running with the Meadowbrook hounds at Oyster Bay.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-31
Letter from William Crozier to Theodore Roosevelt
General Crozier has read General Frey’s article on the Peking Relief Expedition. Frey showed appreciation for the expedition’s various contingents and gave credit to American soldiers for their unique qualities.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-10-13
Letter from Leonard Wood to George B. Cortelyou
“Universal testimony” supports Herbert G. Squiers’s exemplary conduct in the siege of the Legation Quarter during the Boxer rebellion. General Wood encloses a letter praising Squiers’s conduct “in case the President should desire any information on this matter.” Wood is interested in the matter because his sister-in-law was in the Legation Quarter during the siege.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-02
Letter from Herbert G. Squiers to Leonard Wood
Herbert G. Squiers requests that General Wood speak to President Roosevelt on his behalf. He would like his conduct during the Boxer Rebellion recognized with a promotion. Squiers was First Secretary of the American Legation in Beijing during the siege of the International Legations. He encloses a dispatch from the British government recognizing his exemplary conduct during the siege.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-21
Letter from John F. Moore to Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Moore has written a letter to Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, and would like Vice President Roosevelt to address and send the letter on his behalf. Moore threatens Nicholas II with a bombardment of St. Petersburg and invasion if Russian troops do note leave China and Poland. Moore had previously wrote to President McKinley offering advice on how to end the Boxer Rebellion in China. We are unsure of the order of the document’s pages.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901
Letter from Julian Pauncefote
British Ambassador to the U.S. Julian Pauncefote encloses a dispatch highlighting the courageous conduct of Herbert G. Squiers and Reverend Francis D. Gamewell during the attack on the Legation quarter in Beijing during the Boxer rebellion and asks that the British Government’s appreciation be extended to them. Squiers was the Secretary of the U.S. Legation and Gamewell was the Methodist minister connected with the University of Peking.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1900-12-26