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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George B. Cortelyou

President Roosevelt asks Treasury Secretary Cortelyou to talk about an issue with Comptroller Lawrence O. Murray. He suggests paying for the trip out of funds for 1909. In a postscript, Roosevelt inquiries about Cortelyou’s opinion on the enclosed statement by Kingsbury Foster, the superintendent of the New York Assay Office, in connection with letters that Representative William S. Bennet will send.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Herbert Putnam

President Roosevelt asks Librarian of Congress Putnam if the enclosed is all right, and if it is, to present it. Roosevelt takes it for granted that Putnam has the money without any extra appropriation, and asks if he is correct in this assumption.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur P. Gorman

President Roosevelt explains to Senator Gorman the situation regarding Jacob H. Hollander. Last year, at the request of Dominican president Carlos Felipe Morales Languasco, Secretary of State John Hay asked Hollander to go to Santo Domingo to help the government “straighten out their finances,” but Hollander was unable to go.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-28

Release by Detroit News

George E. Miller sends Theodore Roosevelt a news release by the Detroit News, which he thought Roosevelt might like to read. The News reports the interaction of the House Committee on Appropriations with administrators of the Smithsonian Institution in a slightly humorous manner, focusing on the preoccupation of several representatives with whether any money would be going to fund Roosevelt’s safari expedition. While the hearings were going on, the Smithsonian institution issued its annual report stating that Roosevelt’s expedition was financed by private sources.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by Whitelaw Reid

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy contains handwritten edits suggested by Whitelaw Reid. Numbers correspond to comments made by Reid in his letter to Roosevelt of the same date.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-14

Speech of acceptance

Shorthand draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-27

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by Benjamin B. Odell

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy contains handwritten edits suggested by New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-14

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by Paul Morton

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy contains handwritten edits suggested by Secretary of the Navy Morton.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-18

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by Winthrop Murray Crane

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. Winthrop Murray Crane returned his copy with few edits.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-18

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by George B. Cortelyou

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which he accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy includes edits suggested by George B. Cortelyou, as recorded by telephone conversation with William Loeb.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-21

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt, with edits by George B. Cortelyou

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy includes edits suggested by Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou, some of which he transmitted to William Loeb by telephone.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-21

Draft of an address by President Roosevelt in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the presidency

Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt with handwritten edits. Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-27

Help refused

A woman labeled “Business Interests” is drowning in a pond of silver coins labeled “85 cents.” She is wearing waterwings labeled “Patent Air-Bladder” and “Life Preserver,” “Makeshift Silver Certificate,” and “85-Cent Legal Tender Dollar,” from which air is escaping through several punctures. The U.S. Capitol is in the background and a long line of congressmen are departing “Homeward.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-03-11

Health to the lion

Roosevelt and hunting companions look startled when they come across a very large lion. Caption: “Wall Street expects every one of them to do its duty.” Original signed sketch. Stamp of Outing Magazine on verso.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1909