France--Paris

Letter from Archibald Gracie to Theodore Roosevelt

Archibald Gracie thanks President Roosevelt for the kind words of sympathy he sent following the accidental death of Gracie’s daughter, Constance Julie Gracie. He has been shown great kindness by almost every American presently in Paris. Gracie laments the loss of his daughter, and recounts the high hopes he had for her. The type of accident that killed her would not have happened in the United States, he believes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-20

Telegram from J. J. Jusserand to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Jusserand informs President Roosevelt that King Edward VII of Great Britain and King Alfonso XIII of Spain have accepted membership in the Paris academy of sports.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot’s uncle, William Phelps Eno, is attempting to extend his system of traffic regulation to foreign cities. Pinchot requests a letter from Theodore Roosevelt that could help advance Eno’s work. Letters have already been received from F. V. Greene, Alexander Piper, and Louis Dembitz Brandeis.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-02-28

Letter from Edward B. Clark to Theodore Roosevelt

Edward B. Clark describes his European holiday. After staying in the Alps and visiting Paris, he plans to study birds in England for a month. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for a letter of introduction to a “non-official” bird lover.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-23

Letter from Charles W. Weber to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles W. Weber, a “little Republican,” reminds Theodore Roosevelt that he is the child who recently shook his hand at the embassy. He has lived in Paris, France, for four years and started a successful rubber business. Weber sends a gift he hopes Roosevelt will find helpful when he returns to New York and starts writing for The Outlook.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04

Letter from Julia Hunt Park to Theodore Roosevelt

Julia Hunt Park is sorry that Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Paris will be too brief to allow him to visit her. She looks forward to meeting him at the Embassy and says he is welcome at her house if he has a spare hour.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910

Letter from Robert Kastor to Theodore Roosevelt

Robert Kastor asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can do a pastel sketch of him during his stay in Paris, France. Roosevelt approved of Kastor’s previous ink portrait.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-21

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador White recently travelled to the South of France to see the Great White Fleet, and he was highly impressed by both the vessels and the behavior of their crews. The day before the fleet departed he hosted a celebratory lunch for its commanding officers, French dignitaries, American diplomats, and American locals. White just attended a meeting in the Sorbonne amphitheater where Roosevelt will give his eagerly anticipated lecture next year, and he describes the space. On February 22 he will host representatives from the other “American countries” at a lunch honoring both George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays. White hopes to encourage the celebration of this holiday in Latin American countries that Lincoln protected from European “annexation” with his adherence to the Monroe Doctrine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-31

George Cabot Lee to William Loeb

George Cabot Lee of Lee, Higginson & Company provides details and instructions pertaining to President Roosevelt’s banking arrangements for his Africa trip. Letters of credit with two London-based firms and their corresponding letters of indication being sent, both with this missive and by separate cover. A blank letter of credit is also enclosed, as a precaution in case Roosevelt requires more money than anticipated in Africa. Lee specifies which of these documents Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, must sign, return, and forward. In a postscript Lee notes that he can have Kermit come in to Boston from Cambridge to sign the necessary items if it is more convenient.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-01

Letter from W. S. Rainsford to Theodore Roosevelt

W. S. Rainsford will leave his guns in Africa for President Roosevelt to use. Rainsford offers recommendations on what kinds of guns and ammunition to use on Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Africa, cautions Roosevelt on the use and care of telescopes for the rifles, and provides advice on hunting and travel around Africa.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-27

Letter from Rachel Sherman Thorndike to Theodore Roosevelt

Rachel Sherman Thorndike would like President Roosevelt to introduce her to President-elect William H. Taft so that she may ask what he plans to do with the Consul General Alexander M. Thackara. Thorndike intends to move her family depending on where the Thackara family is moved.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-20

Letter from Elbert F. Baldwin to Theodore Roosevelt

Elbert F. Baldwin, European editor of The Outlook, requests that President Roosevelt confirm the message of an article published in The Sun.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-21

Letter from A. A. W. Hubrecht to Theodore Roosevelt

A. A. W. Hubrecht has heard through newspapers that President Roosevelt intends to speak at the University of Paris, University of Berlin, and University of Oxford while he is in Europe in 1910. Hubrecht asks if Roosevelt would consider “making a four leaved clover of this” by speaking at University of Utrecht as well.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-21

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Reid sends a copy of a speech that Sir Dyce Duckworth made toasting President Roosevelt’s health. Reid also encloses a report in the Daily Telegraph of his speech in Bath. Reid will likely not travel to the United States this winter and would not be able to vote in the election even if he had returned to New York, as he does not have continuous residence or registration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-23

Letter from Robert B. Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Robert B. Roosevelt informs President Roosevelt that he will be traveling to France with his wife and children, and asks for a letter of introduction that he can give to the consuls at Nice and Paris, and to the ambassador.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-06

Letter from George Macaulay Trevelyan to Theodore Roosevelt

George Macaulay Trevelyan is grateful for President Roosevelt’s approval of his last volumes as well as the opportunity for a six-week holiday. During his travels throughout Europe, Trevelyan encountered a number of Americans, whom he mentions to Roosevelt, and remarks how hospitable they are.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-27

Letter from Frank McIntyre to William Loeb

Frank McIntyre forwards a telegram from Secretary of War William H. Taft detailing his planned return route to the United States from Vladivostok with a stop in Paris. Taft asks that Ambassador to France Henry White inform him of anything particular he should do while in Paris.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador White updates President Roosevelt on his recent activities. White was supposed to have gone on a trip with French President Armand Fallières and Admiral Charles H. Stockton to review the United States naval squadron in Bordeaux, but due to potential protests in southern France, the trip was cancelled and Stockton and his officers were hosted at the President’s Palace and Ministry of the Navy instead. The Japanese Navy will meet the American squadron at Cherbourg, and Stockton will entertain the Japanese admiral and officers there. The French press has been trying to push the idea of war between the United States and Japan. J. J. Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, is visiting and is very eager about the new French embassy in the United States, a “sore subject” for White, as he has had trouble finding a suitable house in Paris. White says he will write a separate letter concerning American embassy buildings in the “leading capitals.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-19

Letter from Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt, the widow of one of President Roosevelt’s late cousins, sends him a book on Australia written by one of her French relatives. She reports on her and her family’s travels through the Netherlands and Paris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-24

Extract from pastoral of the Most Excellent and Most Reverend Archbishop of Montevideo on the duty of the present hour

Archbishop Soler praises American Catholics and the thriving nature of Catholicism in the United States. He argues that the Church is not the enemy of progress, which is proven by how Catholicism has flourished in the U.S., the example and standard of progressive nations. He explains a visit he made to Secretary of State Elihu Root, to express his admiration for the way in which American ideals allow complete liberty to Catholics, and the way other Americans respect them as collaborators in the social order.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-30