Letter from M. E. Hennessy to Theodore Roosevelt
M. E. Hennessy invites Theodore Roosevelt to the Boston Press Club’s anniversary banquet.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-10-17
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M. E. Hennessy invites Theodore Roosevelt to the Boston Press Club’s anniversary banquet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
Photographs and names of the officers of the Philadelphia Council of the Boy Scouts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-04
George Gilmour sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of an address on The Press and Social Progress given by Harry C. Withers in which the unused possibilities of the newspaper are discussed. Gilmour hopes the address might make it into The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
The Rubinstein Club is celebrating it’s 25th season with a banquet in honor of William R. Chapman and his wife Emma Louisa Faulkner Chapman. A musical program will be performed by artists from the Metropolitan Opera House. A card for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is attached as well as a business card for Florence Nightingale Lethbridge Gulick, the chairman for the event.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11
President Roosevelt cannot become an honorary member of the Anglers’ Club, as he says he would be “an impostor” because he is not a fisherman. He nevertheless thanks Frank M. Johnson for the invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-24
President Roosevelt thanks Theodore Harris, President of the International Club, for the honorary membership.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-02
President Roosevelt appreciates J. D. White’s effort in making plans for his trip and would like to know if White can arrange for him to visit the Hasty Pudding Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-22
Arthur P. Felton invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the Paint and Oil Club of New England and would gladly alter the timing of their monthly meetings to accommodate Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-14
Theodore A. Bingham asks Theodore Roosevelt for a favorable recommendation for his membership into the Century Association, and also hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovering quickly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-14
Edwin F. Sellers invites Theodore Roosevelt to address the Traffic Club of Philadelphia at their fourth annual dinner. The club has over 300 members consisting of railroad officials and industrial traffic managers. Sellers mentions his father, Major Edwin E. Sellers, and his brother, Lieutenant Commander David Foote Sellers, who was one of Roosevelt’s naval aides during his first administration as President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-05
On behalf of the New York Schoolmasters Club, Matthew W. Quinn invites Theodore Roosevelt to be guest of honor and make an address on any subject Roosevelt might choose. The club has had many distinguished speakers and they believe an address by Roosevelt would highly honored. Quinn remembers Roosevelt signing a relief measure to provide salaries for the teachers in Queens when the city failed to provide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-05
On behalf of the Minnesota Congregational Club, James W. Cool asks Theodore Roosevelt to come speak to the club on Forefather’s Day. The club can offer Roosevelt an honorarium of $200 to cover his travel costs to come to the Twin Cities and address the club at the Minneapolis Auditorium after dinner at Plymouth Congregational Church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
Mary Josephine Burton Frazer thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the handkerchief but informs him she had to postpone the baby show due to weather. She asks if he would be willing to write a letter she could read at her current events club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
Edward L. Morris has been discussing with George B. Cortelyou the possibility of President Roosevelt visiting the Biologists’ Field Club’s preserve, Plummer’s Island. Morris sends two copies of the Field Club’s book, one for Roosevelt and the second for Cortelyou. Morris hopes Cortelyou might present the book to Roosevelt when he discusses the proposed visit to the preserve.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-09
This photograph shows Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club members taking pictures of the Little Missouri River on a log concretion in the North Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
This photograph shows Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club members taking a picture of Theodore Roosevelt’s name painted on a log in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. Historians believe Roosevelt did not write the name since the spelling is wrong. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
The photograph shows the Lester Ken Knight’s Camera Club sitting on an old car in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to discuss the honor list of animal kills from the Camp Fire Club and tell him he does not have to join the club unless he really wants to. He is glad Kermit ran in the 1,000 yard race and glad he has decided to stop training. Roosevelt says his trip to Chicago was a success but he is worked to the limit. He will be heading west soon to see Roosevelt Dam and the Grand Canyon, and perhaps to make some speeches in California.
1911-03-02
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to congratulate him on being elected to the Boone and Crockett Club. He wants to know if Kermit wants his article back from Collier’s because if they publish it he will get very little money. Roosevelt wishes he could advise Kermit more about Elon Huntington Hooker and David M. Goodrich and their companies but Kermit must make up his own mind. He will have Mother send him Hooker’s pamphlet.
1912-04-06
Theodore Roosevelt will refuse the invitation if asked to join the club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-12-12