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Form from the American Protective Tariff League requesting the name and contact information of an individual that will vote for the first time in 1904. The league plans on sending these individuals literature on protection and the tariff.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-07
Theodore Roosevelt wants Oscar K. Davis to get out the materials mentioned in the enclosed letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks E. P. Dutton for the postcard samples and letter. He asks Dutton to contact various Roosevelt headquarters, and gives Medill McCormick’s address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-07
Miniature book, published during President Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, containing details about Roosevelt, his family, and his achievements.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1904
A postcard printed with The Progressive Creed.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1912
Wrapper for a set of 10 postcards featuring the Progressive Creed, proclaiming that the creed “will convert many doubtful voters.” One postcard is included, which has the full creed printed on one side.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1912
Miniature book (“Facts about the Candidate”) published during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential campaign. In Danish, translated from English. Illustrated; unpaginated [220p.]; Item is incomplete.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1904
Miniature book, alternatively titled Thatsachen über den Candidaten (Facts about the Candidates), published during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential campaign. Item translated from English; printed in Fraktur script. Illustrated; unpaginated [224p.]; Item is incomplete.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1904
Elisha E. Garrison encloses copy of his letter to Albert Shaw, editor of The American Monthly Review of Reviews, outlining his proposal for the campaign publication. Garrison mentions that some proofs have arrived from G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-20
Elisha E. Garrison writes to Albert Shaw and suggests creating a handbook that contains extracts from President Roosevelt’s speeches that reply to the leading questions of the campaign. Roosevelt heartily approves of such a plan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-19
George Haven Putnam had a meeting with Elisha Ely Garrison who claims to have President Roosevelt’s permission to produce an index volume of Roosevelt’s speeches for use in the upcoming campaign. Garrison is seeking proof sheets of the speeches from G. P. Putnam’s Sons. Putnam approves of Garrison’s plan and is willing to provide the proofs as well as participate in the volume’s publication. He requests Roosevelt’s confirmation and instructions regarding these plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-06
George Haven Putnam asks President Roosevelt to review the list of speeches they have marked to either keep or omit in the upcoming publication of his works. He discusses the wording of a paragraph informing the reader that the work is not under copyright and that Roosevelt will receive no money from the publication of his speeches. Putnam also clarifies the terms under which he discussed this work with the P. F. Collier & Son Corporation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-28
George Haven Putnam is concerned that the speeches President Roosevelt has selected to be published would create a large book too expensive to be used for circulating during the upcoming campaign. He recommends reducing the number of speeches and selecting only those that relate to national issues so they can be more relevant to the 1904 presidential campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-24
A campaign pamphlet supporting William A. Connolly’s candidacy for city solicitor of Des Moines, Iowa, enclosed in a letter to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-13
A mass mailing from the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania has violated civil service law and Senator Quay is working to remedy the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-04
Judge Lindsey requests one hundred of the pamphlets that contain Theodore Roosevelt’s Columbus speech for the campaign in Colorado.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-26
Gifford Pinchot is pleased that Theodore Roosevelt approves of his article on conservation and cost of living. He is planning to make it into a campaign pamphlet. Pinchot has been working with Lynn Haines to prepare the book and pamphlet on the Democratic Congress which he believes will help defeat a number of Democrats.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-24
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary requests Senator Dixon’s opinion on the suggestion that Roosevelt write personal letters eliciting the support of officers of the Railroad Trainmen’s Union. He also encloses a letter from E. Mont Reily regarding the situation in Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-01