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William Loeb encloses a check on behalf of President Theodore Roosevelt as a contribution to the current expenses of Grace Reformed Church where the Reverend Dr. John M. Schick is the pastor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-22
President Roosevelt will do his best to secure tents from the War Department, but he will not speak at the church Henry St. George Tucker referred to. Both he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt want to go privately to Brandon, Westover, and a third place.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-11
Ursula B. Leber asks Theodore Roosevelt to donate towards the Ladies Mission Band of the First Presbyterian Church’s fair. She informs him their borough in New Jersey was named for him, and two elders in the church are named Theodore.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-21
Mrs. Lease wonders if Theodore Roosevelt might donate to their church fund.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
John Van Pemsem asks if Theodore Roosevelt can attend their church’s festival and potentially speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-17
Agnes Carter Mason offers to send Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the autobiography written by her father, Walter Carter, if Roosevelt confirms that he remembers him as his former Sunday School teacher at St. Nicholas Church in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
John T. Cotner asks Theodore Roosevelt to deliver a lecture in Lima, Ohio, on behalf of the citizens and the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, offering the use of Memorial Hall and stating that his visit would be considered a great honor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
Article expresses appreciation for President Roosevelt’s work in the United States and abroad.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-22
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom writes to William Loeb regarding the destruction of Christian churches during a riot in Tokyo, Japan. Military authorities intend to offer protection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes of his honeymoon with Alice Lee Roosevelt to his sister Anna. He describes climbing Mount Pilatus in Munich with two German students and confusing Saturday for Sunday. He has not had any trouble other than mistaking a cavalry officer for a railway porter.
1881-07-19
The Democratic Donkey, as a woman, sits in a pew in a church with William Jennings Bryan preaching “Jeffersonian Simplicity” from a pulpit. On Bryan’s left are Alton B. Parker, Henry Watterson, and William Randolph Hearst, and among those on his right are New York City Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., former Representative Tom Watson of Georgia, Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, and Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman. All are preaching except Hearst, who righteously looks up to the heavens. In the background, the sun illuminates a stained glass window labeled “Our Thomas” and showing Thomas Jefferson. In a far corner of the church, Grover Cleveland is asleep. Caption: The Democratic Donkey (drowsily) — He-e-e Haw! What a lot of ways to be saved!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-05-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna expressing his sympathy that she is ill. Roosevelt explains how much energy his sister has and describes what he thinks a typical day for her would consist of. He also describes his weekend and his experience at a very full church on Sunday.
1877-04-01
President Roosevelt sends Professor Dabney a set of books for the Scottsville High School.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-23
Vice President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Schick for writing. Both his children are recovering. He looks forward to seeing Schick again and returning to the church upon his return to Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27
Mrs. B. B. Goodale asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can speak in Angola, Indiana, and how much he would ask for for such an engagement. Any profits that came from the sale of tickets to see Roosevelt would go towards paying for the cost of a new church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-01
Mrs. Frank White writes to Theodore Roosevelt to tell him her German Reformed Church’s Ladies’ Aid Society is asking for donations to buy new pews for the church and asks if he would make a donation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
J. Gardner Smith sends Theodore Roosevelt programs from the liberal Church movement lecture series. He asks Roosevelt to speak on October 15 about the conflict between religion and the church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-14
Reverend John M. Schick of Washington, D.C.’s Grace Reformed Church tells Theodore Roosevelt of the coming construction of a new building to accommodate the thriving Sunday School the church runs. He invites him to visit sometime, and says that while they are not seeking funds, “if [Roosevelt wants] to stand in with the old crowd there will be an open hand just this once.” Schick additionally tells Roosevelt of the many developments in his family, all of whom are doing well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-08
S. Edward Young has enclosed a resolution adopted at yesterday’s peace meeting of The Clerical Conference of the Federation of Churches. The document has been published in the local news, but Young asks Theodore Roosevelt if there is a way to make any corrections with the news organizations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
Fred R. Marsh informs Theodore Roosevelt that a former teacher of Ted Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt is now a pastor at the Congregational Church of Houston, and that Roosevelt is invited to attend Sunday morning services there when he speaks in the area.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-10