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William Loeb sends Corinne Roosevelt Robinson a check for $6.00 on behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to support “the Children’s Fund of the Orthopedic Hospital.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-14
William Loeb informs Annie M. Maschmeyer that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt received her letter. Roosevelt has instructed Loeb to send Maschmeyer the enclosed $10.00 check for the National Junior Republic. Loeb requests a receipt for the check and returns Maschmeyer’s credentials.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-14
President Roosevelt informs Louise Holmes Vanderbilt that he has given the last hundred dollars of the money she sent him to a charity in Washington that houses soldiers and sailors when they are on leave.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-06
William Loeb sends Charles Frederick Weller a check for one hundred dollars on behalf of President Roosevelt, who received it as a gift from an anonymous friend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-05
William Loeb sends Mabel Smithers $200 on behalf of President Roosevelt for the Downing House, a project which Roosevelt is invested in. The money was given to Roosevelt by Louise Holmes Vanderbilt, but Loeb conceals her name from Smithers, calling her an “unknown friend.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-05
William Loeb sends Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge $200 that President Roosevelt received from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. The money is to be spend on nurses who serve the poor of Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-05
President Roosevelt sends Rear Admiral Thomas $100 for the legal suit concerning the exclusion of men from public places for wearing a uniform of the United States’ military. He feels strongly that the uniform is “a badge of honor,” whether worn by an enlisted man or an officer. First page includes handwritten note over the top, “Pages to 2 removed before commencement of this book.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-21
President Roosevelt must decline seeing Anna M. Jackson and Mrs. Wright. He receives many requests to donate or speak for worthy causes but cannot oblige, even though he has “the heartiest and deepest sympathy” for what Jackson is doing.
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1906-09-13
Wishing he could make it more, President Roosevelt sends Robert Bacon a check for five hundred dollars as his contribution to the class gift to Harvard.
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1905-02-09
President Roosevelt sends twenty dollars to Reverend John M. Schick for the Waldenses who have always interested him. He feels John Milton’s poem about them is “one of the finest poems in our language.”
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1905-01-23
Theodore Roosevelt has received Thomas Nelson Page’s letter about raising a Thomas Jefferson Memorial Fund as an endowment for the University of Virginia. Roosevelt believes fundraising efforts should reach people all across the country who care about higher education. Roosevelt believes the American people can carry out Jefferson’s work in the most gratifying way.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-05
President Roosevelt sends his greetings to the assembled journalists and hopes for the successful endowment and construction of the Journalists’ Home.
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1903-10-26
Jules Dzianott was exiled to Russia after the Polish Revolution of 1863 and cannot return to his country or family. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for material help. Dzianott is reading Roosevelt’s African Game Trails.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-14
Arthur W. Mitchell sends Theodore Roosevelt a pamphlet about the West Alabama Normal and Industrial Institute, a school similar to Tuskegee. They are trying to raise $10,000 and ask Roosevelt for a five-dollar donation.
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1911-11-07
Pastor Manasseh H. Wilkinson asks Theodore Roosevelt for a donation to his church’s missionary work among the children of Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-06
John Stuart White asks Theodore Roosevelt to donate to and become a patron of the Burton Testimonial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-16
Emma Baker Kennedy spoke with Charles D. Walcott regarding his and Theodore Roosevelt’s desire for her to endow a publication fund for the Smithsonian Institute. However, she must decline the proposal as her work lies more so with philanthropic and religious purposes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-01
Margaret Knesal requests Theodore Roosevelt’s help in paying for her house. Knesal states if she ever gets enough money to pay Roosevelt back she would along with ten percent interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04
Gilbert Reid asks Theodore Roosevelt to send his son an autographed photograph. He discusses plans to secure a salary for a Harvard alumnus to work with the International Institute of China and asks for Roosevelt’s help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-29
Amelia Parrs solicits a donation from Theodore Roosevelt to facilitate repairs of her small congregation’s church building.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-10