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Doris Eleanor Roach begs Theodore Roosevelt to stand as a moral force in America and protest the current scandal of Illinois Senator William Lorimer allegedly being elected to office through corruption and bribery. Roach compares the moral decay in America that allowed this scandal with the downfall of Athens and Rome.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-02
In response to Home Herald editor Frederick L. Chapman’s inquiries, William H. Taft does not object to the publication of his attached message. While Taft believes what he wrote, he supposes it will make no difference to his attackers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Anna Roosevelt Cowles and mentions his support of her effort to recover fully from her illness of the previous year. He spent a brief time with Robert Munro Ferguson and Isabella Selmes Ferguson and agrees that Isabella Ferguson is quite brave although he believes he was not with Robert long enough to judge the condition of his health. Roosevelt is pleased that Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. is in public school with Cameron Winslow. Roosevelt is enjoying reading William Cullen Bryant’s translation of Homer’s Iliad.
1910-11-17