Bullock, Seth, 1849-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

Theodore Roosevelt does not believe the “war talk” with Mexico will lead to anything serious and hopes there will be no need to intervene. However, if a big power, such as Japan, backed Mexico and serious war resulted, Roosevelt requests President Taft’s permission to raise a division similar to the Rough Riders. He discusses how it would be organized and who he would choose as officers. Elected officers cause inefficiency, as evidenced by the two other Rough Rider regiments. Roosevelt does not intend to boast; instead, he reminds Taft of his regiment’s effectiveness during the Spanish-American War.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt received James Wilson’s messages from Seth Bullock, including Wilson’s suggestion to send the Morgan stallion, which he received as a gift from William H. Miller, to the Vermont Government Farm. He agreed and asked Bullock to arrange transport.

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Creation Date

1911-05-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Sutherland

Theodore Roosevelt has been discouraged by the Republican and Democratic parties. The foreign policy of President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan has been the worst since James Buchanan was president. Roosevelt discussed stopping war in his recent book, America and the World War. To stop “international wickedness,” decent men must be “able and ready to use force in support of righteousness.”

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Creation Date

1915-02-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Howard Eaton

President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Wyoming rancher Howard Eaton and sends well wishes to Eaton’s brothers. Roosevelt expresses a wish to visit the ranch in Wolf and notes that he is with U.S. Marshall Seth Bullock.

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Creation Date

1909-02-28

Letter from William Loeb to Charles Dana Gibson

William Loeb encloses letters of introduction for the artist Charles Dana Gibson from President Roosevelt to New Mexico Territory Governor George Curry, U.S. Marshal Seth Bullock, and U.S. Marshal Ben Daniels.

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Creation Date

1908-11-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt encloses several letters for his son Kermit regarding their upcoming trip to Africa. Roosevelt discusses the guns that the two of them should bring, and tells Kermit that it is time to discuss when they should make the trip. He also includes a letter from Seth Bullock about the upcoming Republican National Convention. Roosevelt believes that Secretary of War William H. Taft can be nominated on the first ballot. Additionally, Roosevelt has heard from Endicott Peabody, the Rector of Groton school, and has decided that the best course of action regarding Archibald Roosevelt’s education is to hold him back a year.

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Creation Date

1908-06-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt asks Kermit Roosevelt when he plans to have his friends stay at the White House so he knows when to invite Seth Bullock and Martha Marguerite Eccles Bullock. He is also happy to hear that Kermit has taken up boxing. Roosevelt describes his voting day experience in Oyster Bay and is overall pleased with the results of the election.

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Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Archibald B. Roosevelt

President Roosevelt has heard that his son Archibald B. Roosevelt has befriended young Leonard Opdyke while at Groton School, and encourages him to invite his school friends to visit over the holidays. He tells Archie about his trip, which he believes will be his last trip of consequence while in office. Roosevelt thinks Archie would quite enjoy his own trip up the Mississippi River next spring.

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Creation Date

1907-10-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit about his mother’s and siblings’ lives, as well as the legislative progress he has made recently. Roosevelt has had difficulties with California, Japan, and Panama. He agrees with Kermit about the merits of Mark Twain and Robert Browning and their use of history as a narrative tool.

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Creation Date

1906-02-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit Roosevelt, who is currently on a trip in the Dakotas, and reminisces about his own time there. Life at Sagamore Hill is pleasant, and Roosevelt updates Kermit on the comings and goings and activities happening around the place.

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Creation Date

1906-08-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Horace Lorimer

After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.

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Creation Date

1906-05-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur W. Little

President Roosevelt tells Arthur W. Little that he thinks an article about Seth Bullock like Little proposes would be interesting, but he does not think it would be possible to write it in the way Little hopes. Roosevelt proposes an alternate method of writing the article.

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Creation Date

1906-04-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles A. P. Hatfield

President Roosevelt asks Colonel Hatfield if his orderly, Cornelius McDermott, can be given a decent horse, instead of his current horse, which is a “dangerous beast” that has run away four times.

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Creation Date

1906-01-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Emerson Hough

President Roosevelt regrets to inform Emerson Hough that after two investigations and reports from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, he cannot reappoint Pat F. Garrett as collector of customs in El Paso. Garrett is a personal favorite of Roosevelt’s and he would like to keep him on, but he cannot do so without compromising his ability to remove inefficient men from other positions around the country.

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Creation Date

1905-12-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Hunter

President Roosevelt thanks William H. Hunter for the editorial and for understanding the “Bat Masterson” type. He is glad to appoint men like Bat Masterson, who are “real survivors of the Viking age.” Masterson’s record is clean as far as Roosevelt knows. However, he admits a few appointees, like Ben Daniels, engaged in activities they should not have during their youth. Regardless, Roosevelt considers these men better “than many a smug citizen who looks down on them.”

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Creation Date

1905-02-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt had not considered Gifford Pinchot for the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture until Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recommended him. Roosevelt wonders if Pinchot is interested in the position and if he feels his agricultural knowledge is sufficient. Although Roosevelt has already partially committed himself to G. Howard Davison, he will put the appointment on hold until he hears from Pinchot.

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Creation Date

1904-07-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oliver Wendell Holmes

President Roosevelt is proud that he was able to appoint Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Supreme Court. Seth Bullock sends Holmes his love. During the trip, Bullock “electrified [Secretary] Moody’s sound Massachusetts soul” with his anecdotes of his early political career.

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Creation Date

1903-06-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Moody

President Roosevelt would like Secretary of the Navy Moody to join him for the California, Oregon, and Washington section of his trip.

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Creation Date

1903-04-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt describes his recent dinner guests.

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Creation Date

1903-03-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes

President Roosevelt invites Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes and Justice Holmes to dinner on Saturday evening.

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Creation Date

1903-02-25