Gifts

Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt

John C. Greenway sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of Life in Mexico, praising its account of early Mexican life and expressing disappointment at missing Roosevelt in New York. Greenway shares news of his travels, mentions political views including support for Taft’s veto of the Statehood Bill, and asks if Roosevelt received information about Jim Martin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-13

Letter from H. C. G. Moule to Annie Augusta King Cole

H. C. G. Moule thanks Annie Augusta King Cole for her letter and the photograph he sent. He also thanks her for the book from Charles Kingsley’s library she sent him. He hopes she is well and can come visit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Note from Lewis M. Swasey

Calling card and note accompanying the English translation of Houston Stewart Chamberlain’s The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, gifted to Theodore Roosevelt by Lewis M. Swasey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05

Letter from T. Shimakawa to Theodore Roosevelt

T. Shimakawa sends Theodore Roosevelt a gift of a family heirloom of his, a spear used by famous samurai. A note on the second page describes a picture featuring T. Shimakawa alongside Count Shigenobu Ōkuma and Professor Yoshiaki Yamashita

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-21

A golden wedding

The author of this editorial roundly criticizes President William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt for sending gifts to Adolphus Busch, who recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary. The author opines that Busch has been so influential in the ruin of many American lives through the beer his company brews that, “self-respecting American citizens, whether they are presidents, ex-presidents, or privates, should contribute nothing to his orgies.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-09

Note from Hubert Foster

Colonel Foster sends the accompanying material with his compliments.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caroline Nispel

On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb returns the present that Caroline Nispel sent. As it is not possible for her to accept every gift that is sent to her, Roosevelt has adopted the practice to refuse all gifts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-31

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mrs. Paxton

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mrs. Paxton for sending him something. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Dewey

President Roosevelt wishes that he could have been able to pay his respects in person instead of only sending flowers to honor “that American whom all good Americans are united in honoring.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White

President Roosevelt thanks Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White for her Christmas greetings and a book, and hopes to see her and Ambassador Henry White, her husband, the following year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-08

Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt

Ambassador Reid had previously gifted President Roosevelt the originals of two Punch cartoons that he had enjoyed, but was still working on obtaining two others. He was subsequently contacted by Edward Tennyson Reed, the artist of the second pair, who was not able to get the originals to give to Roosevelt, but instead offered to redraw the cartoons. One of these Reid sent with his wife, Elisabeth Mills Reid, but mistakenly thought he had sent the other as well. He just discovered the second of the pair, and now sends it to Roosevelt in the diplomatic pouch.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-16

Greeting card from Charles H. Mohr to Theodore Roosevelt

Abbot Charles H. Mohr sends President Roosevelt a greeting card containing a Medal of St. Benedict and a portrait of himself. Also included is a brief description of the form and purpose of the Medal of St. Benedict.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-10

Note about Mrs. Shonts

“Mrs. Shonts personally sent this to the President”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-1909

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Urbain J. Ledoux

President Roosevelt thanks Urbain J. Ledoux for his letter and will return the rocking chair “for the reasons hinted at in your letter.” Roosevelt is glad Ledoux understands the situation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-06

Letter from William Loeb to Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox

On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb thanks Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox for the book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-03

Urges gifts’ free entry

Charles S. Hamlin argues that the gifts Alice Roosevelt received on her recent trip to the East were given to her as the daughter of the President of the United States, and that she could not have declined them without causing misunderstanding and bad feelings. Thus, Hamlin believes, Congress should use a special act to allow the gifts to be brought into the country without a duty being paid on them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-29

Letter from John R. Carter to Theodore Roosevelt

John R. Carter, secretary of the American Embassy in London, sends President Roosevelt five facsimiles of the Oxford reproduction of William Shakespeare’s works not included in his first folio. The Authorities of the University of Oxford hope he will accept them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-15

Letter from Sherrard Billings to Theodore Roosevelt

Sherrard Billings thanks President Roosevelt for the autographed picture. He reports that he has asked Arthur Woods to write to Roosevelt about Roosevelt’s son, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt, playing football. While Ted is stronger than he was last year, “he plays so hard that he needs […] one more year before the first spread.” Billings believes Ted’s physical ability should be closer to his playing ability, but writes that Woods’s letter will explain more.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-08

Letter from the Japanese Legation

The Japanese Legation reports that Yogoro Matsumoto “is a man of respectable character” who offers the sword to President Roosevelt because he heard of Roosevelt’s interest in Bushido.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-21

Letter from Kogoro Takahira to William Loeb

Japanese Ambassador Takahira sends William Loeb information from Minister for Foreign Affairs Jutarō Komura regarding Yogoro Matsumoto.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-21