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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Mary V. Clark for her letter and for recommending that Roosevelt speak to Owen R. Lovejoy and John B. Andrews. Roosevelt was able to speak to Lovejoy and a few others about the topics mentioned in the original letter to Homer Folks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs E. H. Cooper that Roosevelt’s busy schedule prevents him from personally looking into the matter that Cooper wrote about. Roosevelt is confident in the works that Homer Folks is doing. Roosevelt’s secretary returns the enclosures Cooper sent, as Roosevelt does not have anything to do with choosing articles for publication in The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Schnur for the kind letter, and has submitted the question to Homer Folks. He encloses his response, with which Roosevelt agrees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-08
President Roosevelt would like to establish a permanent voluntary organization as suggested by the Conclusions of the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children. Roosevelt asks Thomas M. Mulry, along with Homer Folks and James E. West, to form a committee to determine if there would be adequate financial support for such an organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
President Roosevelt would like to establish a permanent voluntary organization as suggested by the Conclusions of the Conference on the Care of Dependent Children. Roosevelt asks James E. West to form a committee, along with Homer Folks and Thomas M. Mulry, to investigate whether there is adequate financial support for such an organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
Louis U. Dolbeare, Acting District Secretary of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, was forwarded Frank Harper’s letter to Homer Folks concerning Mrs. Margaret Gloster and family. The Brooklyn Bureau of Charities was already aware of this family, and has already taken steps to help them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-21
Louisa Lee Schuyler thanks President Roosevelt for inviting her and her sister, Georgina Schuyler, to visit the White House before March 4. She inquires about the most convenient timing for their trip. The recent Conference on Children impressed her friends, and she is sorry to have missed it. Schuyler is sending Roosevelt an advance copy of her paper, “Children who need not have been Blind,” and she hopes that he has time to at least look at the pictures.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-01
Rabbi Samuel Hirschberg recounts the time when President Roosevelt was introduced to a blind Assyrian girl, and he tenderly cut the thorns off a rose from his desk and gave it to the young girl. Roosevelt spoke at a conference for the dependent children banquet in Washington D.C., and promised to speak to Congress about appointing a commission to investigate and recommend legislation for the care of dependent children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-29
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary asks Judge Hotchkiss that the secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, Homer Folks, be added as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-15
F. Norton Goddard discusses New York Republican politics; including political patronage, Mayor Low’s administration, and several appointments. If Governor Odell moves Joseph Dickey to fiscal agent or some other position, Goddard would be interested in Dickey’s current role as Shipping Commissioner.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-25