Fish, Stuyvesant, 1851-1923

President Roosevelt celebrates his forty-ninth birthday with a variety of friends. In the upper left hand corner at the piano are New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and Thomas Fortune Ryan singing, “Oh let us be joyful.” Booker T. Washington tells Henry Watterson, “Henry, I hope you’ll come down and visit me at Tuskegee.” Senator Joseph Benson Foraker says to Secretary of War William H. Taft, “I heard a good story today, Will.” Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks look at a picture of George Washington, and Fairbanks says, “That picture makes me sad. It reminds me of cherries.” William Randolph Hearst, James Roscoe Day, and Secretary of State Elihu Root look at a book of “Snapshots in New York.” William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland play a game of checkers, and Bryan says, “After you, Grover.” J. Pierpont Morgan watches over the game with his hand on Bryan’s back. Henry Huttleston Rogers, F. Augustus Heinze, and Thomas William Lawson sit together. Lawson says, “Rogers, my boy, you must come over to Boston and visit me.” John D. Rockefeller points at Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s chest while President Roosevelt presents a bouquet to James J. Hill as William J. Long looks on. Finally, James T. Harahan, Edward Henry Harriman, and Stuyvesant Fish read “Snap Shots Along the Illinois Central.” Harriman remarks, “Very nice album, Stuyvesant, is it not?”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-27

Stuyvesant Fish has arranged for a November bear hunt in Arkansas or Mississippi and President Roosevelt invites John Avery McIlhenny.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Alexander W. Swanitz sends Theodore Roosevelt an article and requests it be published in The Outlook.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-19

Creator(s)

Swanitz, Alexander W., 1852-1915

James R. Sheffield is disappointed by the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention as it lacks “real friends” of President Roosevelt. He suggests some of Roosevelt’s personal friends attend the convention in order to keep tabs on the delegation. Sheffield is confident in the success of the national ticket in New York but has doubts about the state ticket. He feels the party needs a strong candidate for governor, such as Elihu Root, to be successful. Root is reluctant to be a candidate but Sheffield would still like to raise public sentiment in favor of Root’s nomination for governor.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-11

Creator(s)

Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938

The Bulletin, 3 o’clock edition, reports on current events in Washington, D.C. A circled article, titled “Catholics Repudiate Roosevelt and Root,” reports that, according to a cablegram from Reverend Martin Kennelly to Anthony Matré, Catholics in China have pushed back against being classified as “a vicious people” by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root in the matter of the exoneration of Judge Lebbus R. Wilfley. Other articles on the page report that Stuyvesant Fish recently had lunch with President Roosevelt, and that Representatives Charles Napoleon Brumm and J. Hampton Moore visited the White House to put the name of William M. Garrett forward as a candidate for Public Printer. There is also a discussion of a bill dealing with the aftermath of the Brownsville Incident, looking to reinstate some of the soldiers who had been dishonorably discharged.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-12

Creator(s)

The Bulletin

President Roosevelt describes to Senator Lodge the difficulties he has had in negotiating the composition of the commission to examine the Anthracite Coal Strike. The mine operators did not want a representative of labor included. Roosevelt discovered the importance of labeling and perception, however, in that they would protest his appointment of Bishop John Lancaster Spalding as “eminent sociologist” and the addition of a representative of labor, yet they would happily accept the representative of labor being labeled an “eminent sociologist” and the addition of Bishop Spalding.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-10-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A. J. Cassatt is willing to attend a conference but doubts that anything can be accomplished as his views are diametrically opposed to those held by Stuyvesant Fish. The bill introduced by Senator Stephen B. Elkins could start an early debate.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-05

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

James R. Sheffield informs President Roosevelt of plans to gather a group to meet with Commissioner of Immigration William Williams. The invitees include Stuyvesant Fish, Nevada N. Stranahan, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Mr. Seul, Mr. Greene, Nicholas Murray Butler, and George Rumsey Sheldon. Sheffield extends a hopeful invitation for Roosevelt to attend the dinner at the University Club.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-06

Creator(s)

Sheffield, James R. (James Rockwell), 1864-1938

Stuyvesant Fish argues that the Interstate Commerce Commission is weak as it is a branch of the government not laid out in the Constitution. He urges President Roosevelt to express his wishes in the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-20

Creator(s)

Presidential Office Staff

Charles E. W. Smith submits the names of several men whom he believes would be respected as members of a commission to investigate the Anthracite Coal Strike.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-13

Creator(s)

Smith, Charles E. W.

Daniel LeRoy Dresser sends further information regarding a proposed hunting trip in Mississippi. Dresser believes that the Republican Party can make “great strides” in this region and the enthusiasm from a presidential visit would be very helpful.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-24

Creator(s)

Dresser, Daniel LeRoy, 1866-1915