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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1909-01-12
President Roosevelt understands Charles A. Moore’s goal, and sympathizes with it. He believes that the “epic feat” that Moore wishes to undertake in Western Asia will interest President-Elect William H. Taft just as much.
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1908-12-16
President Roosevelt congratulates George Rumsey Sheldon, and is especially pleased to hear that there are upwards of ten thousand contributions to the campaign fund. He praises Sheldon’s work as treasurer of the New York Republican State Committee.
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1908-10-25
President Roosevelt writes to Henry Clay Frick to introduce Robert E. Peary, the arctic explorer. Roosevelt apologizes for taking advantage of Frick’s good nature, but Roosevelt feels that Peary’s work is important and, as one of his benefactors recently died, his next expedition does not have the funding that it needs.
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1908-02-22
President Roosevelt tells Representative Cole that it is not possible for Roosevelt to endorse any movement in which the purpose it to raise money, no matter how worthy the cause may be. Roosevelt would be glad to see any “worthy and patriotic movement for a permanent memorial of the Spanish War” be successful.
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1906-10-26
President Roosevelt sends his greetings to, and best wishes for the success of, the Earthquake Sufferers’ Relief Fund Benefit.
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1906-04-26
President Roosevelt informs Raymond H. Oveson that he cannot make appeals for local missions or efforts, and that he has issued an appeal for the Red Cross fund in its entirety.
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1906-03-25
In a telegram to New Orleans Mayor Martin Behrman, President Roosevelt opens the Diamond Festival to benefit the yellow fever fund. On behalf of the American people, Roosevelt offers prayer and good wishes that New Orleans and Louisiana will “fight the plague from which they are suffering,” and assures Behrman that the Federal authorities will help in whatever way they can.
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1905-09-16
President Roosevelt has received William R. Corwine’s report on the National Martinique and West Indies Relief Committee and thanks its members for their support to the cause, financial and otherwise. It is the kind of spirit that is upheld in good citizenship.
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1904-10-15
Theodore Roosevelt has received Thomas Nelson Page’s letter about raising a Thomas Jefferson Memorial Fund as an endowment for the University of Virginia. Roosevelt believes fundraising efforts should reach people all across the country who care about higher education. Roosevelt believes the American people can carry out Jefferson’s work in the most gratifying way.
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1904-07-05
President Roosevelt thanks William Emlen Roosevelt for considering a contribution of $3,000 to an unknown requester.
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1904-05-17
Minnie Jones has fought so hard and so successfully for Edith Wharton’s war charities, and Wharton thanks Theodore Roosevelt for supporting the charities on her own and Minnie’s behalf. Roosevelt’s gift of $500 will be devoted to the convalescent home for refugee women and children. Wharton saw Ted Roosevelt in Paris, France, and he looked well. She wishes the Roosevelts could have seen the great outpouring of sympathy in France after the death of Quentin Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-09-02