Devine, Edward T. (Edward Thomas), 1867-1948

President Roosevelt suggests that, on behalf of the Red Cross Association, Mabel Thorp Boardman send an auditor to San Francisco to keep track of expenditures for disaster relief in the city. Roosevelt does not want to impede immediate relief to the city, but warns that after the emergency “there will be plenty of fools and plenty of knaves to make accusations against us, and plenty of good people who will believe them.” It would be beneficial, therefore, to have a clear accounting of what has been done, and with what resources.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt gives Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf a list of people to meet with in San Francisco, California, once he arrives.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that he has read reports that the destruction of the San Francisco earthquake has fallen especially hard on the Chinese population there, and instructs him to telegraph Edward T. Devine that the Red Cross relief work in the city must be done equally for everyone, without regard to race. Roosevelt asks if it would also be worth telegraphing General Frederick Funston the same instructions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has received a number of messages urging disaster relief funds for San Francisco to be given to local committees rather than the National Red Cross. He believes that the course he took at the time was the only possible one, but that now if the regular authorities believe they can do the necessary relief work they should be allowed to do so.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Professor Kirchwey encloses an editorial by Dr. Devine entitled “Progress in the New York Court of Appeals” and a memorandum that Kirchwey prepared for Senator Dixon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-14

Creator(s)

Kirchwey, George W. (George Washington), 1855-1942

On behalf of the National Consumers’ League, James P. Heaton asks Theodore Roosevelt to sign the enclosed letter to induce Christmas shoppers to buy early. He lists other individuals to whom they sent the letter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-09

Creator(s)

Heaton, James P.

Patrick Egan asks Theodore Roosevelt to introduce Egan to Edward T. Devine.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-13

Creator(s)

Egan, Patrick, 1841-

Edgar Chambless plans to send copies of his book Roadtown to former members of Commission on Country Life in an effort to solicit their opinions on it, and asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write a short message in support of this. While he heard that Roosevelt considers the ideas presented in the work currently impractical, they have been of interest to a number of other prominent people, which Chambless hopes will convince Roosevelt to assist in this way. He particularly references Luther Burbank as “not the type of man who jumps at conclusions or lends his name to impractical schemes.” By providing a message in support of Chambless’s investigations, Roosevelt will help make the ideas a reality.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-21

Creator(s)

Chambless, Edgar, 1870-1936

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Victor Howard Metcalf updates President Roosevelt on the conditions following the earthquake in San Fransisco, California.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-26

Creator(s)

Metcalf, Victor Howard, 1853-1936