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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary advises Emily C. Hansell not to go to Chicago to carry out her idea. Roosevelt is not able to contribute to Hansell’s project.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Caspar Whitney that there is no organization collecting funds to the monument of Frederic Remington. Homer Davenport was doing most of the fundraising, and the secretary suggests Whitney get in contact with his estate. Theodore Roosevelt would really like Whitney to bring the matter to completion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt explains to James H. Hyslop that he cannot be involved with trying to enlist wealthy men in any kind of work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-02
Theodore Roosevelt earnestly wishes Denis Wortman well in his efforts to secure funds for ministerial relief in the Reformed Dutch Church. It is not “square or fair” that ministers be cast adrift while serving with such devotion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-06
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Alma Rittenberry that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for financial contributions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Nannie G. Rowley that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for financial contributions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by the charitable work that young girls are doing in Huntington, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-25
Theodore Roosevelt sympathizes with Reverend Holmgren’s causes but cannot solicit money for them as it would set a precedent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt permits William E. Coffin to use his name to raise money for the Camp Fire Club’s conservation committee. He wishes he could be an active member but has neither the time nor money.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Charles W. Holmes’ request for a donation from Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Frank E. Parham that Roosevelt is not a rich man, and cannot donate funds to Salem Academy and College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as Parham asked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that Roosevelt is unable to help W. Muller with his plans to raise money to procure land.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-01
Theodore Roosevelt encourages Oric Bates to continue on the work and research, likely referring to Bates’s anthropological studies of North Africa. Roosevelt reports that if soldier and African-explorer William Astor Chanler was not in a hospital in France, he would be fighting for the Allies, and, in any case, Chanler likely does not have much money to help with Bates’s project. Roosevelt tells Bates that he is happy to offer whatever advice he might have and write any letters of introduction that might be helpful, but he regrets he can not do more than that.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson about two men fundraising for French Protestant Churches that are in need because of World War I. Roosevelt suggests that Dorothy Payne Whitney may be interested in their work, and he has also given one of the men a letter for Cleveland H. Dodge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-20
Theodore Roosevelt explains to his son Ted that he met Madame Depage, who is delivering this letter, in Brussels. He would like the younger Roosevelt to help her fund raising efforts for Belgian field hospitals. She believes that California is a logical place to concentrate her efforts and the elder Roosevelt hopes the younger Roosevelt, along with his wife, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, and her mother, Grace Green Alexander, will do all that they can to provide Madame Depage with introductions and advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Charles D. Hart on the success of the Boy Scout campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The rapid and widespread fund raising shows that the Boy Scouts have “taken a deep and firm hold upon the sympathies of our people.” Roosevelt views the Boy Scouts as a valuable movement to the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks R. W. Taylor for the work he and his companions have done raising funds for war victims. Roosevelt suggests that Taylor send the money to J. P. Morgan & Company, which is coordinating contributions to the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly, France. Roosevelt’s daughter and son-in-law are both volunteering there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt sends Gifford Pinchot a copy of the letter he sent to Peckham. Roosevelt encourages Pinchot to address the Kansas Progressives on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Roosevelt also responds to a newly received letter from Pinchot addressing controversy within the Progressive Party. Roosevelt concludes with the belief that Gifford and Amos Pinchot should try and raise subscriptions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-01-03
President Roosevelt agrees to John B. Tivnan’s request to provide a “big stick” as a prize for a fundraiser for the City Orphan Asylum of Salem, Massachusetts. Roosevelt has entrusted the big stick to Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner of Massachusetts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-01
President Roosevelt wishes Mary Louise Farnum Witschief luck in organizing the fair to benefit the 10th Separate Company of the New York National Guard, and emphasizes his interest in the National Guard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-12