Dinners and dining

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-10-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

Theodore Roosevelt asks Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to tell C. Grant La Farge that Roosevelt will be at the Boone and Crockett dinner next week. Roosevelt also asks if he might use Florence La Farge’s house to have a meeting with William L. Ward, who wants to meet somewhere other than The Outlook office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-15

Theodore Roosevelt confirms he will attend the Boone and Crockett Club dinner and will make an appointment to follow up with William E. Humphrey when they meet.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Theodore Roosevelt tells Felix Frankfurter he is pleased Frankfurter told Robert Haven Schauffler that Schauffler’s book, The Scum of the Earth, impressed Roosevelt. Roosevelt invites both men to lunch the next time they are in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Theodore Roosevelt asks C. Grant La Farge where and when the Boone and Crockett dinner will be held. Roosevelt also asks where William Austin Wadsworth and his family will be staying in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Theodore Roosevelt encloses money for a ticket to the banquet, but he cannot attend. Once Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is feeling better Roosevelt plans to invite the Brothers to come see his trophy collection.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Theodore Roosevelt asks Irving Bacheller to lunch at Oyster Bay on January 15.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-01-03

John T. McCutcheon sends Theodore Roosevelt a “six-inch book shelf” of books written by authors from Indiana for the Indiana Banquet held recently.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12

Austin B. Fletcher invites Theodore Roosevelt to join the friends of Dr. David Starr Jordan for a dinner to show Jordan appreciation for his work.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12

Edward Sandford Martin informs Theodore Roosevelt of a private dining room on the top floor of The Century where he could host Taylor, James G. Croswell, and three of four other men for lunch. Martin suggests it will pay to meet Croswell. Martin will be reading Roosevelt’s recent editorial from The Outlook tonight and asks if Roosevelt has read History of Freedom by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, mentioning it works well in Taylor’s book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

John Callan O’Laughlin asks Theodore Roosevelt to meet with Victor L. Mason, president of the Passaic Board of Trade.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

Walter W. Simmons invites Theodore Roosevelt to the annual meeting and dinner of the Harvard Club of New Hampshire. Simmons would like to deliver the invitation in person at Roosevelt’s office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Philip Ruxton invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend the annual dinner of the Typothetae of the City of New York and give a speech on any subject.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

John O. Yeiser responds to Theodore Roosevelt with appreciation for Roosevelt’s personal feelings about running for President, but Yeiser wishes Roosevelt to know he will not be discouraged from seeking to nominate Roosevelt. Yesier explains his reasons for wishing Roosevelt to be nominated over William H. Taft and Robert M. La Follette. If nominated, Yeiser believes Roosevelt will do his duty and accept.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-01

John O. Yeiser thanks Isaac T. A. Reneau for volunteering to support this work of bringing Roosevelt’s men together in his city in order to get Roosevelt nominated for President. They are not asking Roosevelt what he thinks, but Yeiser does not believe Roosevelt would refuse the nomination and allow Taft to win again. Yeiser encourages Reneau to get the “real rough Roosevelt men” to sign the petition, and the rest will follow and Roosevelt will be elected President.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

John O. Yeiser tells Theodore Roosevelt he has taken the responsibility of mailing out petitions to get an idea of what people are thinking about the presidential nomination, though he is being cautious. Yeiser does not need Roosevelt to approve of the endeavor, but Yeiser does ask if Roosevelt might consider coming to Nebraska to speak at one of the banquets he plans to hold. Any correspondence between them is strictly confidential unless Roosevelt authorizes Yeiser to mention it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-23

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11

Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. D. Minot for offering to host a dinner for the newly engaged Roosevelt and Alice Lee. Roosevelt suggests a date for the dinner and Alice’s choice of guests, which include Henry Shaw, Robert Bacon, Bessie Whitney, and Julia Bacon.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1880-02-19

President Roosevelt writes to Stephania A. Porter to thank her for sending him a picture of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. He also invites her to bring her son and his family to dinner at the White House. There is an annotation in an unknown hand at the bottom regarding the original copy of the letter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-06-24

Governor Roosevelt thanks General King for the invitation to attend a dinner of the Loyal Legion, but regrets that he has a prior engagement.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1900-02-03