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On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary apologizes to Bertha May Irene Kane Schofield because Roosevelt is powerless to help her and does not know who to refer her to for help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
William Loeb sends Reverend Dr. Schick a $10 donation on behalf of President Roosevelt for his Christmas fund for the poor, and he asks for confirmation of receipt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-17
Joseph Barondess invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend and speak at the dedication of the David Kessler Second Avenue Theatre, highlighting its significance as the first major theater for Jewish drama and its philanthropic purpose.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
Felix Kraemer has enclosed a letter of introduction from the Vienna Male Chorus Society, who will be performing at the White House on May 6. He requests that all the singers and their families could bypass quarantine restrictions since their transport from Hamburg, the Oceana, was personally chartered by the society and no one else travelled with them. Kraemer hopes William Loeb will “drop him a line” about when he can receive him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-31
Ensign Roper asks President Roosevelt to contribute to the Salvation Army’s Christmas food bank.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-06
John D. Rockefeller, holding a bag labeled “Foreign $ Missions” close to his side, sits on millstones labeled “Standard Oil Millstone” grinding or squeezing money from people caught between the two stones. With his left hand he offers a copy of the Bible to a native man. A diminutive figure below, labelled “Jr,” is Rockefeller’s son and namesake, who methodically was assisting and assuming projects of the trust magnate.
The depiction of John D. Rockefeller with a halo of gold as a wizened, cynical hypocrite in Joseph Keppler’s cartoon is reinforced by the “benediction” proffered by his son over the native; and the quotation-marks around the sarcastic “St. John.” Keppler was being purely sarcastic, or referring to Manhattan’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the construction of which was one of Rockefeller’s projects; or both.
Rockefeller father and son indeed supported many churches and charitable missions. Both teetotalers, they underwrote many societies and movements — in the case of Rockefeller Junior, more political in nature. In college he studied Karl Marx and later contributed major sums to the League of Nations, the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna that he will need her assistance and advice now that Father is gone. He is glad she is keeping up with the charities he was interested in and says she is very much like him.
1878-03-03
On behalf of President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb sends John F. Wilkins a $50 check to benefit the work of his association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-01
Theodore Roosevelt’s assistant secretary declines Roosevelt’s involvement in the cause for which J. H. Walker is writing.
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1912-04-12
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Roosevelt’s involvement in the cause for which Mrs. J. M. Dunwody is writing.
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1912-04-12
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary declines to subscribe to the cause about which I. E. Gates is writing.
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1912-04-04
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Charles A. Banker’s request for Roosevelt to subscribe to Banker’s cause and apologizes for doing so.
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1912-04-02
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Roosevelt’s subscription to the cause for which Mrs. B. L. Cannob is writing.
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1912-03-31
Frank Harper declines Theodore Roosevelt’s contribution to the cause for which W. G. Francis is writing.
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1912-03-30
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that Roosevelt is unable to subscribe to the cause for which Katherine J. C. Carville is writing.
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1912-03-30
Frank Harper informs J. A. Parsons that Theodore Roosevelt is unable to provide a monetary gift to the cause about which Parsons is inquiring.
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1912-03-26
Frank Harper apologizes on behalf of Theodore Roosevelt for Roosevelt being unable to support the cause of the American Church Institute for Negroes, for which William Fellowes Morgan serves as treasurer.
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1912-03-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter received by Roosevelt and asks members of the Charity Organization Society to make inquiries about the letter’s author and help her if possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-25
Theodore Roosevelt cannot subscribe to Albert S. Benson’s cause.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-03-25
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs Louise Mullone Braxton that Roosevelt does not know how to be of any help in the matter she wrote to him about. Roosevelt receives many requests for donations and he is not a rich man, but he does sympathize with Braxton’s cause and suggests she write to the Charities Organization Society for advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-14