Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

President Roosevelt informs Attorney General Bonaparte of a meeting he had with Judge Elbert H. Gary and Henry Clay Frick regarding the potential failure of an important Wall Street firm, Moore and Schley. The firm is heavily invested in the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. Gary and Frick propose that the United States Steel Company purchase that stock from the firm to prevent its failure. This purchase could expose United States Steel to an antitrust attack from the government, but Gary and Frick explain why it would not constitute a monopoly, and feel strongly that preventing the firm’s failure would be in everyone’s best interest. Roosevelt told them that while he could not advise them to take the proposed action, he felt it was not his duty to tell them not to.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox

President Roosevelt tells Senator Knox about personnel issues with the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. He hopes to see Knox soon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Ellis Roosevelt

President Roosevelt does not remember having gone into “old misdeeds,” as John Ellis Roosevelt mentions, and states that there is no need to bring them up unless they come up in regard to recent crimes.

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Creation Date

1907-03-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Emory Smith

From everything President Roosevelt has heard, Mr. Woods is “a fine fellow,” but with only one vacancy left on the Interstate Commerce Commission, Roosevelt does not believe it can go to someone from another northeastern state.

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Creation Date

1906-08-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Cornelius Newton Bliss

President Roosevelt hopes Cornelius Newton Bliss has not taken personally the baseless accusations thrown at him of late. Roosevelt does not believe there was any unusual or excessive expenditure in the 1904 election, and in fact there was less than what the British parliament spends on their elections. It was half of what was spent on the 1892 and 1896 elections, but the more important point is that the money was spent legitimately. Bliss has only given the president advice when he asked, and asked for nothing in return, and for that the president is grateful.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox

President Roosevelt will adopt some of the suggestions Senator Knox gave for his speech. He also asks if he could get a copy of the book about Andrew Carnegie that was supposedly inspired by Henry Clay Frick.

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Creation Date

1905-10-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Wayne MacVeagh

President Roosevelt believes that the best thing to do is remain quiet about any controversy regarding campaign funds. He tells Wayne MacVeagh that he has never accepted funds if he knows that the donor expects favors in return. However, he believes that there is no good way of deciding whether to return contributions, or which ones to return. He also expresses concern about the current state of Federal supervision of insurance companies but does not see a way out of it.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop

President Roosevelt tells Joseph Bucklin Bishop he will speak to Secretary of War William H. Taft at once. He is trying to figure out how to speak with Henry Clay Frick, and Roosevelt is seeing if he can communicate with him through Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox. Roosevelt tells Bishop that William Loeb was told “there is not the slightest chance of the Post being sold at all.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Fairfax Henry Wheelan

President Roosevelt shares with Fairfax Henry Wheelan his approach to filling various kinds of appointments.

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Creation Date

1905-01-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin B. Odell

President Roosevelt acknowledges receipt of Governor Odell’s letter and explains he plans to see James H. Hyde that week. The president will write to Odell in greater detail after he has seen Hyde.

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Creation Date

1904-12-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox

President Roosevelt thanks Senator Knox for his telegram and wishes to see him again the next time Knox visits. Roosevelt also states that it is too early to express his opinion about the effect of their opponents’ (the Democrats) actions and notes that they did not look united or happy at the Democratic National Convention held in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox

President Roosevelt thanks Attorney General Knox for sending the letter to Cornelius Newton Bliss. He is pleased that Henry Clay Frick has communicated with Bliss.

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Creation Date

1904-05-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Winthrop Murray Crane

President Roosevelt agrees the bureau he discussed with Winthrop Murray Crane should be created. Henry Clay Frick is available to help in their scheme.

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Creation Date

1904-01-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leslie M. Shaw

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to contact Jefferson and Isaac N. Seligman regarding the financial situation. Jefferson Seligman fears a panic and Roosevelt would like Shaw to reassure him. In a postscript, Roosevelt states that Henry Clay Frick is anxious for an extra legislative session but Roosevelt believes this to be unwise. He encloses letters from Ambassador Meyer regarding the financial situation and a request from Representative Martin for Shaw to attend the Mining Congress at Deadwood, South Dakota.

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Creation Date

1903-07-22

Letter from Albert H. Walker to Theodore Roosevelt

Albert H. Walker commends Theodore Roosevelt’s testimony before the committee regarding the acquisition of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. However, he fears Elbert H. Gary and Henry Clay Frick were not frank with Roosevelt in 1907 and discusses why. Had Walker testified to the committee, he would have said there was no violation of the Sherman Law.

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Creation Date

1911-08-07

Letter from George B. Cortelyou to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou details why Théobald Chartran’s painting depicting the signing of the “Protocols of Peace” between the United States and Spain in August, 1898, is not historically accurate. He does not want a 1902 letter from the French ambassador at the time, Jules Cambon, to be attached to the painting’s provenance. Cortelyou shares the letter and compares Cambon’s list of attendees with his own meticulous secretarial notes from the event. Neither the photograph Frances Benjamin Johnston took the day after the actual signing nor Chartran’s painting provide a completely accurate representation of the attendees and setting.

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Creation Date

1909-02-05

Memorandum from the Office of the Attorney General

The Office of the Attorney General reports that Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte advised President Roosevelt that there is no reason to prosecute the United States Steel Corporation under the Sherman Act for its proposed acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. However, if this transaction were to be preceded or followed by similar acquisitions, the Department of Justice would need to reexamine the situation for antitrust violations.

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Creation Date

1909-01-09

Letter from Frank B. Kellogg to George Rumsey Sheldon

Frank B. Kellogg, a member of the Republican National Committee, writes to Republican National Committee Treasurer George Rumsey Sheldon protesting the acceptance of money from the trusts and those who run them. In particular he lists the Standard Oil Company, the Union and Southern Pacific railroads, and the Powder Trust, and names the men he knows who are associated with them. He states that it would be wrong for the Republican Party to take money from any trust when these same trusts are violating the law.

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Creation Date

1908-09-21

Letter from Francis B. Loomis to William Loeb

Acting Secretary of State Loomis relays the home address of Henry Clay Frick and asks William Loeb to say in his letter that Loomis is in charge of “Foreign Trade” matters in the State Department.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-16

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler relays to President Roosevelt some suggestions that William Barclay Parsons made to him about the Isthmian Canal Commission. Among these suggestions is the idea that the Commission should be cut down to three members and contain no engineers.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-16