Carnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-22

Creator(s)

Miles, R.

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Newspaper article reporting on the concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Masonic Home of Utica which consisted of professional performers as well as children from the home dancing and performing music. The concert raised over $5,000 for the Masonic Home and the children enjoyed their trip to New York City. Letters received by William J. Wiley, superintendent of the home, are also printed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

Francis B. Loomis shares with Theodore Roosevelt his experience at the Elmendorf Lecture the previous evening. When Dwight L. Elmendorf mentioned Roosevelt’s name, the whole crowd burst into applause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-18

Before meeting next Sunday, President Roosevelt asks James Bronson Reynolds to present his regards to Mundji Bey, the Turkish Charge d’Affaires. He feels “the keenest interest in and sympathy with the movement so full of hope for genuine progress which is now taking place in the Turkish Empire.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-04

Anna Howard Shaw has heard about Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming speech at Carnegie Hall on “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood” and hopes he discusses the women’s suffrage movement in light of the growing list of states where women have gained the right to vote.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Helen M. Bent writes to Theodore Roosevelt about his upcoming speech on “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood.” She would like Roosevelt to specifically bring up venereal diseases and how it threatens the lives of innocent women and children. She writes that many women’s organizations have focused on this problem for years and are frustrated since, as women with little political power, state boards of health have not done enough to address the topic.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Washington Irving requests two tickets to see Theodore Roosevelt speak at Carnegie Hall, never having heard him speak before.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-05

Robert Erskine Ely thanks Frank Harper for his letter and says the announcement for Theodore Roosevelt’s address at Carnegie Hall has gone out as Harper Suggested. Dr. Albert Shaw will not return from Europe before Roosevelt’s address; Ely asks Harper to suggest someone else to be the chairman, who will also be expected to give an introduction for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Robert Erskine Ely informs Frank Harper that The Civic Forum is preparing to make an announcement of Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming address at Carnegie Hall. Ely confirms that Roosevelt has selected the topic “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-26

New York State Senator Elsberg informs President Roosevelt of a speaking engagement on October 26, 1904, at Carnegie Hall before the coming elections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-11

Theodore Roosevelt sends his Louisville, Carnegie Hall, and Chicago speeches. Roosevelt believes the speeches display the difference between him and President Taft, who Roosevelt says has stolen the nomination.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-26

Theodore Roosevelt provides Reverend Rainsford with his thoughts on his campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-30

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends copies of Roosevelt’s speeches in Columbus, Ohio, and at Carnegie Hall, and refers Max D. Kelver to The Outlook of January 6, 1912.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-11

Theodore Roosevelt believes that President Taft “means well feebly,” gets under the influence of the people next to him at any given moment, and is without the power of vision or the gift of sympathetic imagination. Although Roosevelt thinks that electing Taft on the Republican ticket is better than letting the Democrats “come in,” Taft has allowed the Republican party to back-slide into its anti-progressive attitudes and letting skilled political bosses and big financiers manage the party’s interests. Roosevelt believes that he was forced into accepting the Republican nomination for president in order to stand for the “forces of rational progress” and characterizes the break within the party: the “foolish extremists under the rather insincere and… demagogic leadership” of Robert M. La Follette and the “equally foolish and rather more sinister… reactionaries under the flabby leadership” of Taft. Finally, Roosevelt encloses a copy of the speech he made at Carnegie Hall, asking Archie Roosevelt to show it to Judge Kent, Mr. Lowell, Mr. Fernández, and Mr. Andrews.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-26

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson for his letter to Kermit Roosevelt and wonders why Ferguson did not write up his trip to the Hudson Bay, as he is one of the few people who can “see clearly and beautifully and then write about what they have seen.” Roosevelt does not feel like he could shirk leadership at the present time, as too many people want him as a leader as well as some “decent” leadership. Although he does not believe he will be nominated as the Republican candidate for president, Roosevelt does not trust the Democratic party to solve the problems at hand. He also mentions the split within the Republican party: the “stupid and sometimes sinister reactionaries under the flabby leadership of President Taft” and the “foolish and violent extremists under the purely self-interested and demagogic leadership of Robert M. La Follette.” Finally, Roosevelt encloses a copy of the speech he made at Carnegie Hall and notes the safe return of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt from Panama and Costa Rica.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-26

Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to see George W. Alger at Carnegie Hall and to hear that Alger does not believe his proposition to be “really revolutionary.” Roosevelt asks Alger to speak with William Draper Lewis about the proposition’s practicality.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-26

Theodore Roosevelt apologizes to H. C. Plumb for being unable to supply him with a ticket to the Carnegie Hall meeting.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt expresses his gratitude at Hamilton Wright Mabie enjoying his Carnegie Hall speech and hopes that he will be able to lunch with Mabie at the Academy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt states that he does not know anything about “that bill.” He wishes that Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt Longworth could have heard him at Carnegie Hall.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt believes the Anti-Trust Law must be kept but is useless by itself. He asks Frank B. Kellogg to read his Carnegie Hall speech on the question of the review of judicial decisions, especially his quote from William Draper Lewis, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25