Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

List of three letters related to the discharge of African American soldiers at Brownsville, Texas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-26

Photograph of the O.K. Society, a group of publication editors, at Harvard University, taken in 1880. Theodore Roosevelt is on the far right standing in the second row.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1880

President Roosevelt introduces Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University to the representatives in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-23

William S. Youngman, a Harvard graduate who was approved for transfer to Theodore Roosevelt’s regiment but never served on the front, shares his admiration for Roosevelt. Youngman also encloses an article that connects Roosevelt to solicitations for the order of the Moose, which Youngman is sure is being done with Roosevelt’s knowledge and could injure Roosevelt’s reputation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-10

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary is unaware of quotations from Henry Labouchère regarding Roosevelt. He will be unable to provide the other opinions on Roosevelt requested by Elizabeth Towne, as they do not keep clippings which reference Roosevelt. The secretary suggests numerous people whom Towne could contact for these opinions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-10-03

Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept any other invitations. He invites Arthur Dehon Hill to stay at Sagamore Hill on January 26. Albert Bushnell Hart is coming that night and Roosevelt wants to discuss politics with both of them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-05

Theodore Roosevelt is happy to have breakfast with Progressives. He lists off individuals William Sturgis Bigelow should consult with for invitations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-12-04

President Roosevelt tells Frank Basil Tracy that while he greatly likes the portrait that Joseph DeCamp painted of him, he does not want to write a letter specifically about it because then he would be asked to write letters about every other portrait. Roosevelt does not object to Tracy making a statement that he knows that Roosevelt likes the portrait. John Woodbury has a letter that Roosevelt gives Tracy permission to quote from. Roosevelt likes Albert Bushnell Hart, especially recently since “his action in connection with the Englishman at Tokio.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-29

President Roosevelt suggests that the Committee on Department Methods consider forming a subcommittee to deal with the issue of documentary historical publications of the United States government. Roosevelt suggests several names for the Committee to consider for service on this subcommittee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-11

President Roosevelt sends Edwin Walter Sims a self-explanatory letter. He thinks highly of Chester Arthur Legg and suggests that Sims contact Albert Bushnell Hart for a statement on Legg’s capacity. Roosevelt believes that Sims should give Legg a trial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-23

President Roosevelt returns the volume of Euripedes and provides his opinion on several aspects of the work. Roosevelt has also recently read books by Edwin Lawrence Godkin and Albert Bushnell Hart.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-06

Matthew Hale asks Theodore Roosevelt to telegraph Governor Robert P. Bass, requesting him to speak at the public meeting of the progressive republicans of Massachusetts. Bass’s support is essential for the meeting’s success. Gifford Pinchot and Samuel McChord Crothers are also speaking at the meeting. Hale assures Roosevelt the movement is not tied to a particular candidate, especially not Senator Robert M. La Follette.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-10

William N. Freeman shares with Frank Harper an argument by Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University and his own response to the argument of American history. Freeman would like to begin a correspondence with Roosevelt through Harper to send him occasional letters where he updates what Hart is doing. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-21

F. C. Nunemacher congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s reelection. He encloses a clipping by Albert Bushnell Hart, which he heartily endorses. As industrial peace is the country’s most vital question, Nunemacher asks if The Outlook would be interested in publishing an article proposing that a group or an individual set aside a large sum for advancing and securing such peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-19

This program describes the events during a week of celebration in Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. Events include the dedication of two buildings at Marietta College, excursions to Blennerhassett Island, reunions of the Union Veteran Association of Washington County, the conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the dedication of a bronze tablet commemorating the first settlement in the Northwest Territory. The tablet was unveiled by Alice Roosevelt Longworth and dedicated by Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10

Program for the unveiling of a bronze tablet on the campus of Marietta College commemorating the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory. Includes several illustrations, the inscription on the tablet, and a description of the ceremony, which included the unveiling by Alice Roosevelt Longworth and a speech by Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-18

Congressional Charter for the then Roosevelt Memorial Association established in May 1920 that lists the original incorporators and includes some of the key provisions guiding the organization. These include stipulations that the association will be governed by a board of trustees; that its income will go only to further its educational goals; and that it will work to establish memorials to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. and Oyster Bay, New York. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

Three works come under consideration in the “Book Reviews” section. Cole Patrick looks at both the 1941 and 1989 editions of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. He comments on the work of Albert Bushnell Hart in compiling and editing the first edition, and he quotes from William Allen White’s foreword from 1941. Patrick explains the various additions made to the 1989 edition by John A. Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including a bibliography, a chronology of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, and a history of the TRA.

Tweed Roosevelt examines Bartle Bull’s Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure and highlights its coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari of 1909-1910, and he also looks at other figures, British and American, who made safaris. He praises the book’s organization and illustrations but faults it for not giving a sense of who the hunters were as people, Roosevelt included. Marilyn E. Weigold praises Elizabeth Winthrop’s novel, In My Mother’s House, for its “precise descriptions of life in Manhattan in the last few decades of the nineteenth century.” The novel’s main character is based on the life of the daughter of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

John A. Gable, editor of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, reviews three works and Richard H. Collin a fourth in the “Book Reviews” section. Gable examines a history of Theodore Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City, a biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and a reissue of Hermann Hagedorn’s classic study of Roosevelt’s time in Dakota, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands. Collin studies a work on the relationship between Roosevelt and the naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan. Gable lists sixteen changes introduced to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) by Roosevelt, and he finds Jay S. Berman’s study important as the first book solely devoted to Roosevelt’s years with the NYPD despite his misgivings about its use of academic language and police jargon.

Gable focuses on Hagedorn’s research and on his relationship to the Roosevelt Memorial Association rather than on the content of the book, but he quotes David McCullough in arguing that Roosevelt in the Bad Lands remains valuable to those wanting to know about Roosevelt’s time in the West. In reviewing Carol Felsenthal’s Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Gable quotes from newspaper reviews, compares the book to previous biographies, and asserts that it is the best overall study of “Princess Alice” done to date. Collin highlights episodes, mostly negative, from Mahan’s career, and argues that Richard W. Turk’s study of the Roosevelt-Mahan relationship is deeply flawed by its lack of knowledge of Roosevelt, factual errors, and a weak bibliography. A photograph of USS Theodore Roosevelt appears in the Collin review.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Photograph shows the Harvard Advocate board with Theodore Roosevelt standing on the right in the back row and Albert Bushnell Hart seated in the center.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1880