Diplomatic and consular service, American

Letter from Maria Longworth Storer to Theodore Roosevelt

Maria Longworth Storer is happy the Roosevelt family will be living in her house. Storer is hoping her husband, B. Storer, will be given another post in either Paris or Berlin in the spring, depending on vacancies, and discusses the tensions in Spain following President McKinley’s recent message. Storer notes efforts to bolster “Republican Catholocism” in France.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-11

Creator(s)

Storer, Maria Longworth, 1849-1932

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb

Acting Secretary of State Adee writes to William Loeb to enclose a memorandum of his meeting with the Japanese Minister.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-16

Creator(s)

Adee, Alvey A. (Alvey Augustus), 1842-1924

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb

Acting Secretary of State Adee writes to William Loeb to confirm that President Roosevelt’s letter to the Emperor of Austria-Hungary has been delivered.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-16

Creator(s)

Adee, Alvey A. (Alvey Augustus), 1842-1924

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Murray Butler

President Roosevelt is glad to hear Nicholas Murray Butler’s thoughts on Maurice Francis Egan and David Jayne Hill. Roosevelt would prefer men like them over any other type of American representative.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

President Roosevelt thoroughly enjoyed Minister Egan’s report from Copenhagen. He hopes that Egan is enjoying his posting.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas J. O’Brien

President Roosevelt does not need to see diplomat Thomas J. O’Brien ahead of his appointment as ambassador to Japan. Frederik VII, King of Denmark, speaks well of O’Brien.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States abroad

President Roosevelt informs the United States Diplomatic Corps that his military aide, Charles S. Bromwell, will be attending military maneuvers in Greece and should be accorded all courtesies.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Reed

President Roosevelt approves of the response sent to the Smart Set magazine in response to a request for his endorsement. He says reports of Ambassador Reid’s “ostentation” and other unflattering news reports about official embassy conduct are harmless; he appreciates all the speeches Reid has made in an effort to unite the “right classes” of Americans and English people. Roosevelt agrees with Reid regarding pursuing arbitration in a treaty dispute with Great Britain over fisheries in Newfoundland. He also comments briefly on the result of the trial of Big Bill Hayward, calling it a “gross miscarriage of justice.” Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciates the silver bowl Elisabeth Mills Reid sent as a gift.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to A. S. Crowninshield

President Roosevelt assures his old friend A. S. Crowninshield that his son, Casper S. Crowninshield, was appointed to the American diplomatic and consular service on his own merit, and is quite pleased the younger Crowninshield has done such a good job in the position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Halstead

President Roosevelt appreciated the letters and editorials that Albert Halstead sent to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John C. Freeman

President Roosevelt was interested by Professor John C. Freeman’s recent letter detailing the bad behavior of multiple US consulate members. Roosevelt notes that all five members have left the service, and that the current roster is pretty good. He also writes that the bill “we got past last year did work a real betterment in the service,” although he had asked for even more.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Myron T. Herrick

President Roosevelt asks Colonel Myron T. Herrick to come visit him at his convenience. Roosevelt was told of William McKinley’s intention to send Herrick to Italy, and plans to follow through on it. He hopes to learn, through Herrick and Secretary of State John Hay, what McKinley told the Ambassador to Italy, George von Lengerke Meyer, when he was sent there.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Charlemagne Tower to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Tower informs President Roosevelt that he will need to return to the United States next summer and asks that Roosevelt accept his retirement at that time. Although he has enjoyed his time in diplomatic service, he has considerable interests at home that need to be addressed. Tower has three sons growing up and wants to be able to address their development and proper direction.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

Creator(s)

Tower, Charlemagne, 1848-1923

Letter from Edwin Lefevre to Charlemagne Tower

Edwin Lefevre thanks Ambassador Tower for attempting to arrange an audience with German Emperor William II for Lefevre and only regrets that he probably put Tower to “some trouble.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-14

Creator(s)

Lefevre, Edwin, 1871-1943

Letter from Emperor William II to Theodore Roosevelt

Emperor William II thanks President Roosevelt for a letter which had confirmed William’s assumption that Roosevelt had not believed lies about the Germans which had been told to Andrew Carnegie in London. William states that the rapid rise of Germany and the United States should inevitably cause envy and create enemies among other nations, but that this should bring the two countries closer together. He expresses pleasure that his ambassador to America, Baron Hermann Speck von Sternburg, found favor from the Roosevelt Administration, and expressed his own pleasure with the delegates of America’s recent tariff commission to Germany. He introduces two German officials soon visiting America, and tells Roosevelt that he is sending him a volume of water color paintings of Frederick the Great by German painter Adoph Menzel.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-06

Creator(s)

William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941

Apportionment of diplomatic appointments by states and territorities

This document is a list of each of the 47 states or territories, the salaries paid to diplomatic appointments from each of those states or territories, and average number of diplomatic appointments from each state or territory.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-01

Creator(s)

Unknown

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt about his diplomatic activities and assures him that he has been keeping Secretary of State Elihu Root in the loop. Reid suspects that the Russians and Germans are trying to get an American diplomat to make a statement regarding disarmament, so they can better position themselves at the upcoming Peace Conference.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-18

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Letter from George von Lengerke Meyer to Elihu Root

Ambassador Meyer describes a visit between the Diplomatic Corps and the Emperor and Empress of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra. He notes that the Emperor admires the “forcible, straightforward, courageous way” President Roosevelt expresses himself in his message.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-15

Creator(s)

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918

List of colored men in the diplomatic and consular service

The list provides the names, home states, titles, assigned regions, and date of enlistment for people of color in the diplomatic and consular service.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-22

Creator(s)

Unknown