Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922

President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s activities on their trip to Jamestown, Virginia, for the Ter-centennial Exposition. Roosevelt enjoyed the fleet review, gave a speech to open the celebration, and attended a dinner hosted by Henry St. George Tucker. The family also visited three plantations on the James River: Shirley, Westover, and Brandon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-29

President Roosevelt believes Arthur Hamilton Lee handled the “Swettenham matter” efficiently, calling the matter itself a “cosmic incident” and citing others like Swettenham in American Government, most notably General James Harrison Wilson. He was amused by the opinions of John William Burgess, who was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt professorship in at the University of Berlin. While Roosevelt admires some of Burgess’s scholarly accomplishments, he considers Burgess “hopefully wrong-headed” and criticizes his first lecture denouncing the Monroe Doctrine.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-08

President Roosevelt enjoyed his visit with Viscount James Bryce and reminisces about when Bryce stayed at the White House several years prior. Roosevelt believes the question of disarmament is “full of difficulties” and wants to avoid raising “high anticipation as will ensure disappointment” with the upcoming National Arbitration and Peace Congress. He wasn’t impressed with Jamaica Governor James Alexander Swettenham’s message and compares his dealings with him to that of Henry Wolcott Bowen, former Ambassador of Venezuela. Roosevelt is pleased that the Santo Domingo treaty was ratified by Congress and is overall satisfied with the number of other legislative measures he managed to pass.    

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-28

President Roosevelt forwards a letter from George Bird Grinnell, telling Earl Grey that Grinnell is concerned with saving animals from extinction and asking if anything can be done about Grinnell’s request. Roosevelt believes Secretary of State Elihu Root’s visit to South America was productive of much good, and he is pleased that James Bryce is going to Canada.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-28

President Roosevelt invites Silas McBee to a luncheon planned for March 20, and states that James Bryce, Ambassador of Great Britain, will be present.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-20

William Loeb encloses a letter from President Roosevelt introducing James Bryce to Albert Halstead.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-14

President Roosevelt agrees with Finley Peter Dunne about protesting against the “Anglo-Saxon alliance” theory because he believes Americans are “a new race, composed of many Old-World stocks.” While the president is not against friendliness to the English government, he is not going to ignore other European governments. Roosevelt declares himself a “strong home-ruler” and gives examples of a number of individuals who have hated their country of origin, noting it is impossible for him to champion every hatred. The president expresses his gratitude for the support he has received from young men, “Catholic by faith and of Irish descent,” and discusses a number of Irish and Catholic individuals he has put in government positions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-03

Gifford Pinchot is “puzzled” over what is to be done in terms of U.S. politics. He would like to visit Theodore Roosevelt as soon as he returns from Europe. When he returns, Pinchot will also discourse “peace for peace’s sake” with Germany.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-05-05

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-25

Creator(s)

Cowles, Wm. S. (William Sheffield), 1846-1923

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Bertha May Irene Kane Schofield asks Theodore Roosevelt for help on the conditions of her family of twelve. Her husband, William Schofield, suffered a nervous break down and cannot work longer than two days a week. Her husband is native a Englishman, and she has reached out to the English Ambassador in regards to sending him or the whole family back to England, but received no reply. She thought of reaching out to William H. Taft but has read that he does not think well of large families.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-18

William N. Freeman tells Frank Harper he is writing a lecture on “The Romance of American Democracy” he will expand into a book, and while he received Harper’s previous letter inviting him to visit The Outlook office to shake hands with Theodore Roosevelt, Freeman says he will wait to do so until he has his book completed in hand to give to Roosevelt for review. He shares a quote that praises Roosevelt from his lecture.

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Creation Date

1911-10-17

Edward North Buxton enjoyed Theodore Roosevelt’s letter but wonders if he is satisfied being an editor instead of living “a life of more action.” He discusses English politics and fears the imminent change of paying members of Parliament. Buxton and his wife, Emily Digby Buxton, congratulate Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on becoming grandparents.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-13

George Otto Trevelyan takes great pleasure in Theodore Roosevelt’s letters and prizes each one he receives. He comments on current politics in Great Britain. Recently, he and his wife, Caroline Philips Trevelyan, vacationed in the Swiss Alps and delighted in the landscape. His son George Macaulay Trevelyan’s new volume will be published in September, and his Parliamentarian son, Charles Philips Trevelyan, will be glad to hear from Roosevelt. Trevelyan sends his regards to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and the family. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-03

Herman O. Fjelde thanks Frank Harper for the information about the “moving pictures” of Theodore Roosevelt and says he has written to Mr. Abernathy. The sculptor has the skeleton of the equestrian statue ready, but Fjelde does not know when the sculpture will be ready. However, he gets new subscribers and honorary members of the Roosevelt Monument Association every week, and notes that English Ambassador James Bryce recently expressed interest.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-15

Louis W. Rapeer asks Theodore Roosevelt for a copy of the speech he recently gave for the University of California. Rapeer is writing a book about public opinion and public education, and would like to cite Roosevelt’s views on the subject.

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Creation Date

1911-05-12

Elizabeth Marion Ashton Bryce thanks Roosevelt for his letter. She hopes her husband, Ambassador James Bryce’s, schedule will allow them to stay at Oyster Bay on Wednesday.

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Creation Date

1911-04-23

Elizabeth Marion Ashton Bryce asks Theodore Roosevelt about arranging for her and her husband, Ambassador James Bryce, to visit his office or Oyster Bay, New York later on in April.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-19

Seth Low reviews President Roosevelt’s administration, listing his many achievements as president. Low wishes Roosevelt success in Africa and hopes he will return ready to continue serving the country.

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Creation Date

1909-02-27

Whitelaw Reid encloses a copy of the letter he wrote to President-elect William H. Taft in which he explains why he believes he should maintain his post longer than currently planned. The King of England appreciated President Roosevelt’s speech on British rule in India and mentioned as well that he hoped Reid would remain Ambassador. Reid updates Roosevelt on diplomatic work he has been doing concerning the Panama Canal and Newfoundland.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-22

Vice President Fairbanks regrets to inform President Roosevelt that he will be unable to attend the African diamond jubilee event he had previously agreed to speak at, due to an oversight in his scheduling.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-18