Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks Mrs. A. W. Nicholson to write a letter to Roosevelt expressing her views on women’s suffrage. She is to write in a tone that reflects that Roosevelt is for suffrage, and he may send the letter to The Outlook to publish. Roosevelt showed Nicholson’s letter to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, who has been “extremely lukewarm” on the subject of women’s suffrage, and Mrs. Roosevelt approved of Nicholson’s approach. Roosevelt increasingly favors women’s suffrage, but does not want to force it on states that do not want it.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-05-08
Creator(s)
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt