Gifts

Theodore Roosevelt thanks the children of the Second Ward for their “beautiful bouquet.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-04-12

Theodore Roosevelt expresses his gratitude at receiving Richard E. Plinkett’s letter and shamrock.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Louis R. Ball for sending “that little device.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt asks Italian Consul General Fara to thank King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III for the book and Minister of the Royal House of Italy Luigi Luzzatti for sending it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-11

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles H. Crewdeen for the apples for Thanksgiving.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-02

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Nelly Tyler and Hope for remembering his and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s wedding anniversary and for the gift. Only a few people remembered because they did not share the news.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-05

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Bessie Neil that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for subscriptions to various causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Theodore Roosevelt thanks J. E. Harris for the carving knife and the sentiment behind it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

Theodore Roosevelt informs Frank A. Harrison that he donated the books to the New York Historical Association where they should be. He admits that the only Dutch he knows is a lullaby he learned as a child.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-28

Theodore Roosevelt cherishes his memory of Ruth Tompkins and recognizes most of the names in Edward E. Williams’s letter. He appreciates the knife, the pieces of buckskin, and the obituary of Williams’s father.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-28

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Robert Haven Schauffler for the inscribed book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-27

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to A. S. N. Dobson that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for subscriptions to various causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-23

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Mrs. Charles M. Ewing that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for subscriptions to various causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-23

Theodore Roosevelt and his secretary received Van V. Bowman’s letters regarding the returned robe. Contrary to Bowman’s belief, Roosevelt’s secretary did not act personally but merely followed Roosevelt’s instruction not to accept items sent for purchase unless requested. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-21

Theodore Roosevelt introduces Ambassador O’Brien to Augusta Saint-Gaudens, widow of the artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He feels strongly about Saint-Gaudens’s work. Augusta wants to gift three bas-reliefs to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, which he urges the king to accept.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-15

Theodore Roosevelt is happy to help Augusta Saint-Gaudens. He instructs her to write Ambassador Thomas J. O’Brien along with the letter he encloses. She needs to recite what she wrote Roosevelt that she wants to gift the bas-reliefs to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy and to sell the La Page production to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-15

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to W. S. Scarborough that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for subscriptions to various causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the book and Albert Henry George Grey’s inscription in it. He is happy to entertain Grey and his daughter if they return to North America. Roosevelt wishes for a full evening’s conversation with Grey, Edward Grey, and George Otto Trevelyan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-10

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Frank A. Harrison’s gift of the volumes. He suggests donating them to the New York State Historical Association and asks Harrison for his opinion. It seems appropriate for them to be available to the public, but unfortunately, he does not read Dutch.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-10

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Arthur W. Mitchell that Roosevelt cannot comply as he receives numerous similar requests for subscriptions to various causes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division