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President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews he has received the Cicero and will order the Catiline, which French Ambassador Jusserand has called highly amusing. Likely, Roosevelt will only glance at the railroad article as he prefers to spend his spare time with lighter reading.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-18
Commander William Sowden Sims of the U.S. Navy sends William Loeb an extract from a new Italian history of Rome. Sims draws a comparison between the political methods of Cataline mentioned in the extract and those used by William Jennings Bryan, and says that this may interest President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-20
Brander Matthews cannot find a copy of Catiline so he is sending President Roosevelt a copy of Cicero instead as well as the new Political Science Quarterly, which includes an article about railroad valuation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-15
Brander Matthews informs President Roosevelt that his wife Ada Harland has already written to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about their enjoyable visit to the White House. Matthews informs Roosevelt he has asked his French bookseller to pass along “Conspiracy of Cataline” and “Cicero and His Friends,” which both provide knowledge of Roman life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-10
This excerpt from Guglielmo Ferrero’s work Greatness and Decline of Rome describes an episode in which Catiline is standing as a candidate for the Consulship, and courts popularity by making promises to the crowd. Ferrero compares Catiline, in this, to William Jennings Bryan advocating the silver standard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-20
Gaston Boissier’s book, La Conjuration de Catilina, will be ordered for President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-15