Durand, H. Mortimer (Henry Mortimer), 1850-1924

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador White informs President Roosevelt about American relations with the Vatican, including a controversial dinner White had with four cardinals in honor of Archbishop John Ireland. He says that some in the Vatican, including Pope Pius X, approved of the meeting, while others did not, given that the United States and the Vatican did not officially have relations at that time. White makes a number of other short remarks on various diplomats and the relationship between the Italian Government and the Vatican. White tells Roosevelt that Cardinal Merry del Val and the Pope both appreciated the signed photographs Roosevelt sent them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-27

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927

Telegram about message from British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand

British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand has notified the State Department that the Cuban railroad at Sagua La Grand is threatened by revolutionaries, and hopes that the United States will offer protection. Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee has sent the message to Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon, and wishes for President Roosevelt to be notified as well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Unknown

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to the Marquess of Lansdowne

Ambassador Reid describes the difficult situation regarding American fishing vessels and the Newfoundland treaty coast. He outlines several key issues that should lead to action.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-23

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Elihu Root

Ambassador Reid relays his conversation with Baron Sanderson and Lord Lansdowne with regard to the American fishermen and the treaty off the coast of Newfoundland.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-21

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Telegram from Elihu Root to Whitelaw Reid

Secretary of State Root received word from British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand that no distinction is being made by Newfoundland officers between licensed and registered American vessels and that they may proceed to take any kind of fish. No American ships may employ men from Newfoundland in their crews.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-22

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Elihu Root

Ambassador Reid encloses a letter he sent to the Marquess of Lansdowne.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-24

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Telegram from Elihu Root to Whitelaw Reid

Secretary of State Root encloses a letter he sent to British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand and urges prompt action in the matter to prevent fishing vessels from losing the season.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-20

Creator(s)

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Telegram from Whitelaw Reid to Elihu Root

Ambassador Reid sought an interview after reading Secretary of State Root’s cable, spoke with Sir Henry Sanderson, and wrote to Lord Lansdowne with regard to the Newfoundland fisheries.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-16

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt

Whitelaw Reid writes to President Roosevelt to say he was just informed that Roosevelt had already received full details of the Japanese treaty from Sir Mortimer Durand.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-05

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt

Whitelaw Reid discusses with President Roosevelt a conversation he had with Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson regarding British and American politics. He also discusses Great Britain’s treaty with Japan and expresses his hope that the British provided at least a hint of such an agreement with the president. He includes a lengthy, handwritten addition congratulating Roosevelt on his coordination of the peace conference.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-02

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Telegram from Whitelaw Reid to John Hay

United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Reid informs Secretary of State Hay that Lord Lansdowne does not have much indication as to the attitudes of Russia or Japan during the Portsmouth Peace Conference. Lansdowne, Reid says, discussed whether it would be more to Japan’s advantage to seize territory or demand a cash indemnity, as they could restart the war over land but not money. Reid also reports that Lansdowne discussed the situation in Morocco, worried that the joint actions of world powers there would embarrass France, and asked what Roosevelt’s views on Morocco were.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-05

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Telegram from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft forwards a message from Japanese Foreign Minister Jutaro Komura thanking President Roosevelt for working to find peace in the Japanese Russian conflict. The Japanese await the president’s return to Washington to contribute to a peace plan. Taft tells Roosevelt that Ambassador Kogoro Takahira seems to believe the Japanese government was being too cautious in their messaging regarding their wish to end the war, about the result of the Battle of Port Arthur, and about Roosevelt’s influence on the peace party. Taft also met with British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand after Durand spoke to Lord Lansdowne, regarding British and French reaction after the First Moroccan Crisis. Taft also spoke to Durand about his conversation with German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-02

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft writes to President Roosevelt about the events that will later be called the Moroccan Crisis (1904-1906), which worsened German relations with France and England. At the request of Roosevelt, Taft met separately with the German and British Ambassadors to try to deescalate tensions so that a misunderstanding would not lead to increased hostility. Taft writes also of the Loomis-Bowen affair and of a Japanese minister who spoke of negotiating a peace for the Russo-Japanese War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-26

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Letter from Silas McBee to Theodore Roosevelt

Silas McBee sends President Roosevelt an editorial and President Nicholas Murray Butler’s letter. McBee would like Roosevelt’s opinion on the stance he has taken about public education in America. McBee hopes to implement a similar educational system in the “old countries.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-28

Creator(s)

McBee, Silas, 1853-1924

Letter from Cecil Spring Rice to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Cecil Spring Rice shares matters of foreign affairs regarding Russia, Japan, Germany, and other countries with First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Issues regarding the resolution of the Russo-Japanese War and terms for peace – as well as the situation within Russia, which Spring Rice says borders on anarchy – make up the bulk of the letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-29

Creator(s)

Spring Rice, Cecil, Sir, 1859-1918

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to Theodore Roosevelt

Acting Secretary of State Adee advises President Roosevelt that during his weekly diplomatic visit, British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand informed him of the British government’s intention to enter into a financial agreement with Liberia. Durand was misinformed about the failure of the agreement between the United States and Santo Domingo, and Adee told him that the convention had not failed, but is still pending in the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-23

Creator(s)

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

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to Theodore Roosevelt

Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee forwards a letter to President Roosevelt that Assistant Secretary of State Loomis received from British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand. In this letter, Durand agrees with the judgment against Hugh Gurney and sends payment for Gurney’s fine. Adee advises that they wait until Secretary of State John Hay’s return to respond to the letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-03

Creator(s)

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

Appendix A to the TR-Trevelyan letter of November 9, 1911

List of thirty-two edits and inserts made by Theodore Roosevelt to his November 9, 1911, letter to George Otto Trevelyan. The edits and inserts were made in the original in Roosevelt’s handwriting. This list prints the alterations so that they can be easily read. Each edit or insert is followed by the page number of the letter in which it can be found.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1911-11-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Lord Lansdowne and the American Impact on British Diplomacy, 1900-1905

Lyle A. McGeoch examines the state of relations between the United States and Great Britain when Lord Lansdowne served as Britain’s foreign secretary from November 1900 to December 1905. He highlights the negotiations concerning the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the settlement of a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States, and a crisis stemming from Venezuela’s debt to Great Britain and Germany. McGeogh also looks at how Lansdowne struggled with the appointment of an ambassador to the United States, his difficulty at times in dealing with the personal style of diplomacy employed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and Lansdowne’s recognition of growing American power in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1979

Creator(s)

McGeoch, Lyle Archibald

Book notes

The “Book Notes” column has two separate articles dealing with the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. In “Paperbacks on T.R.,” John A. Gable looks at seven works, mostly biographies and mostly published in the 1960s, about Theodore Roosevelt and notes the contributions that each makes to the study of Roosevelt. Frederick W. Marks reviews ‘A Good Innings’: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham in “A Special English Friend: Arthur Hamilton Lee.” Marks traces the history of the Roosevelt-Lee friendship, examines the editing of the volume by Alan Clark, and remarks on Lee’s descriptions of prominent Americans. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1977

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.; Marks, Frederick W.