Friendship--Correspondence

Letter from Leonard Wood to Theodore Roosevelt

General Wood needs to take a leave of absence to take his son home to the United States to put him into school at Groton Academy, and details his plans for travel during his absence. Wood encloses a response from Adjutant General Fred C. Ainsworth authorizing Wood’s return home. Wood is glad to continue on duty in the Philippines and considers it the best command in the service.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

Letter from Shūzō Aoki to Theodore Roosevelt

Viscount Aoki wants to send a copy of Luigi Barzini’s book, Guerra Russo-Giapponese: La Battaglia di Mukden, but has been unable to secure a new copy of Emil Krebs’s German translation of it, and so sent President Roosevelt his own used copy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-17

Letter from Theodore Ayrault Dodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Ayrault Dodge asks for a letter of introduction to Henry White, the new ambassador to France. He reports that the former ambassador, Robert Sanderson McCormick, treated him well. He comments on President Roosevelt’s Irish Saga and promises to send copies of his biographies of Napoleon I by April.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-17

Letter from Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt hopes that President Roosevelt is still able to make arrangements for Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt to go out west in the summer. She reports on the health issues the family has been experiencing and hopes the new year will bring Roosevelt continued health and happiness.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-16

Letter from Kuno Meyer to Theodore Roosevelt

Kuno Meyer sends President Roosevelt a copy of his edition of some unpublished Irish heroic tales, entitled, “Death-tales of the Ulster Heroes,” and requests a copy of the paper Roosevelt has written on the subject of ancient Irish romance.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-14

Letter from James Jeffrey Roche to Theodore Roosevelt

James Jeffrey Roche shares his views on a range of topics with President Roosevelt, including Roosevelt’s handling of Bellamy Storer’s “indiscretion” in Rome, the public’s response to the Brownsville case, and Roche’s support for Roosevelt’s simplified spelling idea.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-28

Letter from Seth Low to Theodore Roosevelt

Seth Low agrees to President Roosevelt’s arrangements to go over the plan with Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and John Mitchell. He was also impressed by a man he met named Thomas G. Bush from Alabama, and recommends him to be a trustee of Roosevelt’s fund.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

Letter from J. J. Jusserand to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Ambassasor Jusserand writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt requesting his Christmas gift of postcards to Theodore Roosevelt be secretly added to the President’s gifts. Jusserand writes a humorous list of gifts that Roosevelt may be receiving. He wishes Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and their family a happy holiday season.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

Letter from Margaret Mott to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Margaret Mott thanks Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for the five dollars she sent to Dora Watkins. Watkins often thinks about when she was the nurse of Theodore Douglas Robinson and how smart he was as a child, just like his child, Douglas Robinson. Anna Roosevelt Cowles also sent Watkins twenty-five dollars and a “lovely letter.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-21

Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt

Owen Wister congratulates his friend President Roosevelt on his son, Theodore Roosevelt, joining the Porcellian Club at Harvard University. Wister considers his ten year association with the club while an undergraduate and in law school as having been good for his character. Although Wister recalls some who wasted their time in the club, he does not believe members drink as much as they previously did. Wister wishes he could pass some wisdom on to the younger Roosevelt, and hopes to visit him at school soon.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-19

Letter from Louisa Lee Schuyler to Theodore Roosevelt

Louisa Lee Schuyler was deeply touched by President Roosevelt’s tribute to her recently deceased brother, Philip Schuyler, in the midst of Roosevelt’s busy public schedule. Schuyler says that her brother’s death was a blow; it would have been no surprise if he had died while serving in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, but he lived to serve his country for many more years.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-15

Letter from William H. Appleton to Theodore Roosevelt

William H. Appleton thanks President Roosevelt for his letter, and clarifies that he did not mean to give Ted fatherly advice since he is just out of college himself. Appleton adds that he will be in Cambridge this Saturday, and he hopes to see Ted then. He also hopes to be remembered by the Roosevelt family, especially Quentin.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-13

Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt

Richard Watson Gilder writes a friendly letter to President Roosevelt discussing his meeting with Edwin Arlington Robinson, old Irish literature, and Roosevelt’s Harvard address.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-29

Letter from Alexander Lambert to Theodore Roosevelt

Alexander Lambert forwards a letter of interest from Thomas Lyons to President Roosevelt and compliments Roosevelt on good judgment in choosing weather conditions for hunting. Lambert further states that his photographs were enlarged and that he is happy with them. Lambert encourages Roosevelt to keep up with lemon juice, calomel and quinine.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-18

Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft jokingly tells President Roosevelt that he was unaware that the president had received a medal of honor from the Philippines Exposition of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and that the president is of now the same class as Taft’s wife Helen and everyone on the Philippine Islands. Taft says he could not have stopped Dr. Gustav Niederlein’s reckless awarding of medals and would be glad to talk to Roosevelt about it later.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-06

Letter from John M. Schick to Theodore Roosevelt

Reverend Schick expresses gratitude for President Roosevelt’s $20 gift to assist the Waldensian Church with its work in Italy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-24

Letter from Edwin Anderson Alderman to Theodore Roosevelt

Edwin Anderson Alderman apologizes to President Roosevelt for his critique of a word in one of Roosevelt’s speeches and expresses his concern that Roosevelt is not understood in the South. Alderman feels that the tide is turning in the South and that Roosevelt’s speech will do good.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-14

Telegram from Owen Wilson to Theodore Roosevelt

Owen Wilson writes to President Roosevelt requesting to meet with him at the White House.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-12

Letter from Louisa Lee Schuyler to Theodore Roosevelt

Louisa Lee Schuyler sends President Roosevelt a copy of a sermon by Reverend George W. Stone at her Unitarian church in Redlands, California, in which Stone spoke about Roosevelt’s character as the “dominant power” in his career.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-10

Letter from F. Norton Goddard to Theodore Roosevelt

F. Norton Goddard forwards correspondence he discovered between his father and a Theodore Roosevelt in 1864. Goddard was curious if this could possibly have been President Roosevelt’s father.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-10