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President Roosevelt comments to Senator Lodge on the results of the election. He notes that the West did better than the East because of of the East’s strong reaction against William Jennings Bryan.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-11-06
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that President Roosevelt is doing much better, with a normal temperature and good appetite. The doctors believe that his leg should heal quickly now after the surgery following his recent carriage accident. Edith is very glad that Constance Lodge Gardner is getting better, and supposed President Roosevelt has written Lodge about Constance’s husband, Augustus Peabody Gardner. She promises to write again soon to him and his wife Nannie.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-10
President Roosevelt writes to Senator Lodge about his leg trouble after his recent carriage accident, and is grateful he was able to give his speech on trusts and the tariff in spite of it. He is glad to hear Lodge’s daughter Constance Davis Lodge Gardner is recovering. Roosevelt confides that his leg was treated just in time, as there was beginning to be trouble with the bone, but he believes it will be all right.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-09-25
President Roosevelt writes to Senator Lodge regarding the Anthracite Coal Strike, noting that at present he has not been able to find any methods that would allow the national government to influence the strike. Roosevelt compares the tariff and the strike by saying that in either case, if people are not able to get the goods they need, they will blame the government. Roosevelt explains in the postscript that he is done making tours for the year, and will not make more speeches until after the election.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-09-27
President Roosevelt compliments Robert Grant on his publications, Unleavened Bread and The Undercurrent, and shares a letter passed along to him by Mrs. Roosevelt dated November 10, 1904. Roosevelt also thanks Grant for a recently received copy of The Undercurrent.
1904-10-25
Augustus Peabody Gardner thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and is thankful to say that Constance Gardner is much improved.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-03
President Roosevelt has been concerned about Constance, Augustus Peabody Gardner’s wife, and congratulates Gardner on his triumph (most likely referring to Gardner’s nomination as a Republican candidate for Congress).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-29
President Roosevelt invites Henry Adams to the last reception of his administration, held for the United States Army and Navy, which Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge will be attending. Roosevelt also invites Adams to a separate dinner that will include only the Lodge family and Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner and Constance Gardner. Roosevelt also mentions that he had a delightful breakfast at Adams’s house the day before.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-09
President Roosevelt tells his son, Theodore Roosevelt, about recent goings-on at the White House over the holidays. Many of the Roosevelt children have been attending a number of parties, which has affected their daily schedule. He describes a late-night party at the White House given by Kermit Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt that disturbed his and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s sleep, in which he had to personally intervene to make them go to bed. Roosevelt has been riding, and had the opportunity to test some rifles with Kermit that they will be bringing on their upcoming safari. He has recently been asked by Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, to give a lecture in Berlin when he is in Europe, but it is the last one that he plans to schedule.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-03
President Roosevelt tells Augustus Peabody Gardner that he would like to meet Brother Saklad, whose profession is “reverend and provisions.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-31
President Roosevelt thanks Augustus Peabody Gardner and Constance Gardner for the telegram.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-02
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about a speech made by Eben S. Draper, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and owner of a business that manufactured textile processing machinery, that might have been misreported to Roosevelt. Lodge assures Roosevelt that Draper did not attack him in the speech and that the newspapers have mischaracterized it. He also lets Roosevelt know that there has been no change in the condition of his sister-in-law; the doctors have already given up on her but she is still “hanging on the edge”.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-08
Senator Lodge believes nothing more can be done on President Roosevelt’s part in Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner’s campaign. Roosevelt has no need to worry because the newspapers are printing inaccurate accounts that are not believable. Lodge requests that Roosevelt seriously consider appointing the Atlantic Fleet’s second in command to operate the fleet in the event of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans’s retirement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-02
Senator Lodge tells President Roosevelt that Herbert H. D. Peirce is having financial troubles, and would like an appointment somewhere in South America. Lodge also discusses a recent law in Newfoundland that he feels goes too far in discriminating against Americans after the United States did not accept the terms of a treaty as requested. Lodge would like Roosevelt personally to investigate the matter, because he fears that Secretary of State John Hay is too sympathetic to Newfoundland. Finally, Lodge praises Roosevelt’s speech before the Texas legislature and hopes that he has a good hunting trip in the mountains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-10