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Samuel Leland Powers asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would accept an invitation from the Boston Chamber of Commerce to attend a luncheon and give a speech. Powers believes Roosevelt will be very well received by the businessmen of the city and since Roosevelt often comes to Harvard University as an overseer, the luncheon might not be an inconvenience.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-16
Edgar Huidekoper Wells thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his letter regarding Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. Wells is sending Roosevelt the Archie’s examination papers and he agrees Kermit’s time off was well spent. Wells does not understand why Roosevelt has not received notification of the meetings of the Board of Overseers, but will let Winthrop H. Wade know of the problem at once.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-04
George von Lengerke Meyer was shocked to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident and hopes she is rapidly recovering. Meyer missed Theodore Roosevelt at the last meeting of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and ask Roosevelt if he will be at the next meeting and might spend the evening with Meyer to talk.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Harvard Dean of Men Le Baron Russell Briggs to say that he can not attend the overseers’ meeting. He asks Briggs to let him know if he is visiting New York, as Roosevelt and his wife would like to meet Briggs at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Frederic Adrian Delano’s suggestion and believes that some of the proposed meetings of the Board of Overseers should be held in Cambridge. As Roosevelt is not certain that he will be able to attend the meeting scheduled for May 10 due to a prior engagement, he asks Charles William Eliot if there are any particular meetings of the Board that spring that he should make sure to attend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt shares with William Caleb Loring that he felt it was best to do as William Rand requested during the Harvard University Board of Overseers’ meeting. Rand reports that Wilson does not know anything about the matter. Roosevelt asks that the enclosure be sent to Wilson.
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1911-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Archibald Roosevelt regarding the Porcellian elections. He suggests not discussing the matter with anyone until the end of the year and then they will have a “war talk” if Archibald decides to enter another club. Roosevelt will be attending a Harvard Overseers meeting on January 9. There will be plenty of room at Sagamore Hill for Archibald and any friends he wants to bring on New Year’s Day. Roosevelt has been hired to write for Metropolitan Magazine.
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1914-12-08
President Roosevelt is sure that Lieutenant Governor Lake saw the preposterous article in the Hartford Times based on an alleged conversation with Lake claiming that Roosevelt is trying to control Connecticut and wanted Lake to be a congressman instead of E. Stevens Henry. Roosevelt knows Lake did not say anything of the sort but is concerned about potential trouble if “so gross an absurdity” is repeated. Therefore, he asks Lake to take conservative measures to convince people that the article is false. He feels the Harvard Overseers have “acted like fools about football.”
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1906-01-22
Gerard Carl Henderson asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can lecture students on the Progressive Movement during his visit to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Harvard Board of Overseers meeting.
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1911-12-02
Winthrop H. Wade is pleased Theodore Roosevelt expects to attend the Board of Overseers of Harvard College meeting. He sees no reason for calling a meeting of the Committee on Elections for that day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-25
Prior engagements will prevent Governor Augustus Everett Willson from attending the alumni meeting, but he hopes to see Theodore Roosevelt either in New York or at the Overseers’ meeting in February. Willson wrote Roosevelt after the election, but thinks the letter got lost.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-29
Charles William Eliot informs Theodore Roosevelt that Harvard’s Committee of the Board of Overseers on Government will be meeting in Boston on May 10th. His attendance is requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-02
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Stephen Minot Weld will try to be in New York on January 31. However, if he cannot make it, he asks Justice Loring to share his ideas about the Harvard University Board of Overseers with Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-28
William Caleb Loring returns several items to Theodore Roosevelt. He believes it is necessary for the committee to meet and lists the dates he is available. As chairman, only Roosevelt can call a meeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-20
Stephen Minot Weld received the reports of the Committee and William Rand. He comments on what issues he agrees and disagrees with, including the number of names on nomination certificates, filing dates, and postal balloting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-19
William Rand sends Theodore Roosevelt a report he compiled regarding the order of names on Harvard University’s official commencement day ballot. He does not think it should be presented to the entire Board of Overseers but feels the full committee should consider it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-13
William Caleb Loring sends Theodore Roosevelt a report and letter from William Rand. Loring is at court and cannot attend the Harvard University Board of Overseers’ meeting. He offers to have the committee discuss the matter over dinner the night before the next meeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-11
Edgar Huidekoper Wells apologizes for being unclear in his last letter. He was not inviting but merely notifying Theodore Roosevelt of the Harvard Alumni Association meeting on January 11. Wells had not heard that the Harvard Division of Forestry meeting on January 11 was rescheduled. Therefore, he assumed Roosevelt would already be in Boston for the forestry and Board of Overseers meetings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-31
Dean Hurlbut of Harvard College writes to President Roosevelt about the reported troubles and recent arrest of his son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Moran is turning it into a political matter, attempting to harm Roosevelt through his son, who was struck by the police when arrested. Francis R. Bangs and John Perkins will look after Theodore’s best interests. Hurlbut hopes the story comes to light and he apologizes for the president’s son’s poor treatment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-05
Bishop Lawrence informs President Roosevelt that Henry Cabot Lodge’s name has been accepted by the Overseers for an honorary LL.D. degree from Harvard University.
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1904-05-16