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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elizabeth C. Seymour Dougherty

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elizabeth C. Seymour Dougherty

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) C. Seymour Dougherty for her support in the California primary. Roosevelt denies the stories that are circulating regarding his drinking habits. He does not know how to confront this type of enemy and is glad that Dougherty was not “misled by such false and malicious rumors.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-05-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes his daughter Ethel about his trip through New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Sierras, and California. He is glad she writes him often and wants her to tell mother all the women out there ride astride instead of side saddle and he thinks the side saddle will vanish by the time Ethel is old.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-05-10

Letter from Stewart Edward White to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Stewart Edward White to Theodore Roosevelt

Stewart Edward White offers to start a petition for removal of Charles S. Newhall as Superintendent of Forest Reserves in California. He requests that a circular letter be sent to “all rangers, military commanders and park keepers” informing them that he is “a respectable member of society.” The adventure and travel writer, accompanied by his future wife and co-writer, Elizabeth “Betty” Grant, was planning a visit to national parks in the West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-12

Letter from James Jeffrey Roche to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from James Jeffrey Roche to Theodore Roosevelt

James Jeffrey Roche plans to be in Washington, D.C., in January or February. Though he could not join President Roosevelt in California, everyone he spoke with along the coast admired the president. Roche hopes that Roosevelt will see William Butler Yeats when he visits Washington, D.C. Roche encloses a Boston Pilot article from eight years ago to show that he was “among the first of the prophets.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-04

Letter from Milton J. Green to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Milton J. Green to Theodore Roosevelt

Milton J. Green discusses the outcome of the San Francisco Mayoral election and politics in California, Washington State, Oregon, and other North Western states. Green recommends meeting with leading California Democrat, Gavin McNab. Green also relays his son, Kenneth Green’s, fond memories of meeting President Roosevelt several years before.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-19