Employment references

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles E. Magoon

President Roosevelt appeals to Charles E. Magoon, Provisional Governor of Cuba, on behalf of Granville Fortescue and encloses a letter from him. He asks Magoon if Major Herbert J. Slocum might be convinced to give Fortescue a trial on his merits. Fortescue served alongside Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War, and also served with distinction in the Philippines. The President believes he is a good man who has learned from his mistakes and will not repeat them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

President Roosevelt recommends the artist Howard Pyle to Chief of the United States Forest Service Pinchot. Roosevelt explains that he has given Pyle a letter of introduction to Pinchot for one of Pyle’s sons, who is interested in a career in forestry. Roosevelt will send the Pyles to have lunch with Pinchot.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Andrew J. Corcoran

President Roosevelt cannot write the kind of letter Andrew J. Corcoran requests. However, Roosevelt is pleased with the quality of Corcoran’s work on his windmill and will affirm this to anyone Corcoran refers to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-29

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward J. Bourke

President Roosevelt hopes that former Rough Rider Edward J. Bourke will be appointed captain by the New York Police Department, and says that he is welcome to show this letter to the current Commissioner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot

On the recommendation of Commissioner of Corporations Garfield, President Roosevelt will offer the position of Commissioner of the Land Office to Richard Achilles Ballinger.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Evans Hughes

President Roosevelt writes Governor Hughes to say he’d heard Hughes was considering Charles Hallam Keep, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for a position. Roosevelt states that he would be sad to lose Keep, but that he is extremely qualified for the job. The President offers to invite Keep to an upcoming dinner scheduled between Roosevelt and Hughes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Boyd Andrews

President Roosevelt encloses a confidential letter from Mr. Hanna, “the Gold Democrat,” about John W. Fries. Roosevelt would like to know if Alexander Boyd Andrews agrees with Hanna’s assessment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. H. Llewellyn

President Roosevelt will take up the El Paso, Texas, collectorship and requests a recommendation from William H. H. Llewellyn.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank B. Klepper

President Roosevelt requests Frank B. Klepper’s assistance in identifying individuals who can be depended upon when it comes to making appointments. Roosevelt welcomes opinions for or against any official or candidate for office in the parts of Missouri with which Klepper is familiar.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard G. Holmes

President Roosevelt asks Richard G. Holmes to send him a letter outlining his military and civil service, along with recommendations from three or four businessmen and General Irving Hale.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Fox

President Roosevelt would like professional letters of recommendation for Henry C. McDowell. When John Fox Jr. is next in Washington, D.C., he should take lunch or dinner with Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George B. Davis

President Roosevelt would like General Davis’s opinion on Captain Street. As Secretary of War Elihu Root is absent, Davis should inform Assistant Secretary William Cary Sanger that Roosevelt has asked for Davis’s assistance in the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Nicholas Simpson

President Roosevelt would like John Nicholas Simpson’s opinion on the character and qualifications of anyone up for reappointment to a federal office in Texas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John C. Spooner

President Roosevelt would like to appoint a Lutheran Chaplain in the Army, and asks Senator Spooner of Wisconsin if he can suggest anyone.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Knute Nelson

President Roosevelt hopes to appoint a Lutheran Chaplain in the Army, and asks Senator Nelson of Minnesota if he can recommend a good Scandinavian candidate for such a position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gerrit J. Kollen

In a few months there will be vacancies in the chaplaincies of the Army, and President Roosevelt would like to appoint a young Dutch Reformed Minister to one of these positions. He asks President Gerrit J. Kollen of Hope College if he can recommend any such person.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway

President Roosevelt is looking for people in Arkansas who will tell him “without partisan prejudices whether a candidate is a good one, whether there is a better man to be found, and which of any given number of supplicants is the best,” and asks John Campbell Greenway to forward this letter to his father, Gilbert Christian Greenway, in the hope that he will be able to provide such assistance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to St. Clair McKelway

President Roosevelt is seeking a new postmaster for Brooklyn, New York, and would like to know St. Clair McKelway’s opinion of potential candidate George H. Roberts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Michael Augustine Corrigan

President Roosevelt would like Archbishop Corrigan to recommend a priest who can be appointed chaplain in the army.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Patrick Doyle

President Roosevelt would like Reverend Doyle to recommend a Catholic, of not more than 35 years of age, who could be appointed as chaplain in the Navy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-01