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Francis Hopkinson Smith tells Theodore Roosevelt he will gladly come and shared when he is available. Smith says the news about Woodrow Wilson, Henry Watterson, and George Brinton McClellan Harvey is the funniest political mess right now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
President Roosevelt compliments Ambassador Reid’s handling of the international arbitration proposal regarding American fishing rights in Newfoundland. Roosevelt says his chief concern in foreign affairs is the potential hostility between the United States and Japan, either due to “mob leaders” and “yellow journals” in California, or to the lack of foresight in men like Maine Senator Eugene Hale with regard to funding the Navy. Roosevelt is surprised that anyone pays attention to recent negative comments in the news about him made by George Brinton McClellan Harvey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-26
President Roosevelt thanks Andrew Carnegie for a clipping of Carnegie’s interview. Roosevelt appreciates Carnegie defending him against George Brinton McClellan Harvey, who recently attacked Roosevelt in the European press, but believes Carnegie attaches more importance to Harvey than Roosevelt does. Roosevelt is more concerned about keeping peace with Japan than with the International Peace Conference underway at The Hague.
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1907-07-15
President Roosevelt appreciated Sereno Stansbury Pratt’s recent Wall Street Journal article. Pratt responded to a letter from George Brinton McClellan Harvey which suggested that following tension between Roosevelt and Republican leaders in the Senate, Roosevelt’s popularity would wane by the end of his second term. Roosevelt assures Pratt that he is not concerned with his personal popularity, but rather with doing what is good for the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-03
President Roosevelt directs Louise Adriana Wood to the current issue of Harper’s Weekly. Roosevelt sent George Brinton McClellan Harvey, the editor, letters about General Wood and they were used very well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-04
Ambassador Reid relays items of personal interest to President Roosevelt from London. He encloses a letter from Edward Grey regarding the dispute between the United States and Great Britain over fisheries in Newfoundland; Reid promoted the use of arbitration at The Hague Tribunal to resolve the issue as instructed. The British press has been reporting that the British, not the Americans, are responsible for this plan. Reid encloses a newspaper article about George Brinton McClellan Harvey’s recent criticism of Roosevelt in Europe, and an interview of Andrew Carnegie in which he defends Roosevelt.
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1907-07-17
Francis B. Loomis writes to President Roosevelt regarding the publication of an article in the North American Review about the accusations made against him by Herbert Wolcott Bowen. Loomis emphasizes the importance of publishing an article representing Secretary of War Taft’s findings on the affair and suggests the article be written by Judge Day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-27
Whitelaw Reid writes to President Roosevelt to discuss Great Britain’s opinion of the peace treaty between Japan and Russia. Reid relays in detail his conversation with King Edward VII.
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1905-09-11
The author of this article critiques a statement made in Harper’s Weekly criticizing Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles Hallam Keep for changing the status of pickled sheepskins and collecting duties on them. While Keep’s signature was on the order, he is not responsible for it, and criticism should instead fall on Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Armstrong.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-01
The author reviews the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 manuscript by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt. The manuscript was in connection with Twain’s 1907 letter to the editor responding to James E. Edmond’s editorial criticizing his refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi wherein Twain defends his friendship with Roosevelt. The author speculates why Twain did not publish the 1909 manuscript.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
A private letter from Henry Loomis Nelson to George Brinton McClellan Harvey, appearing in Harper’s Weekly, recounts the misunderstanding between former president Grover Cleveland and President Roosevelt regarding Cleveland’s involvement with the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08
Andrew Carnegie responds to a recent newspaper story in which George Brinton McClellan Harvey claims that President Roosevelt is extremely popular in Europe because he has “dealt a staggering blow” to American business interests abroad and to financial markets, capital investments, and the railroads at home. Carnegie disagrees with Harvey, saying European investment in the United States has never been higher, and American prosperity has flourished under Roosevelt’s time in office.
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1907-06-29
George Brinton McClellan Harvey, editor of the North American Review, has returned from Europe and reports on the feeling about the United States there. President Roosevelt is extremely popular because he has “dealt a staggering blow” to American business interests abroad and to financial markets, capital investments, and the railroads at home. Harvey believes it will take years for American businesses to recover.
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1907-06-28
George Brinton McClellan Harvey, editor of Harper’s Weekly, offers a tongue-in-cheek report on the reasons for President Roosevelt’s “universal popularity” in Europe. German Emperor William II would like to see Roosevelt serve a second elected term, as it would indicate that autocracy is still popular, provided the leader is charismatic and benevolent. England and France view the “staggering blow” dealt to the American railroad industry by Roosevelt with glee. European powers are happy to take advantage of the opportunities presented by American politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-28
Gifford Pinchot offers his opinions on the 1918 midterm elections, which are happening at the same time as negotiations to end World War I. President Wilson described the elections as a referendum on his leadership, and hopes that the American public will return a Democratic majority in both houses. Pinchot believes that Americans are calling for Germany’s unconditional surrender, not the “peace without victory” being pursued by Wilson, so he hopes that a Republican Congress will be elected and that the country will “stop talking peace and get on with war.”
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1918-10-25
President Cleveland stands on the steps to the “U.S. Treasury,” holding a large sword labeled “Sound Money Policy,” with left hand raised to stop the progress of an eight-headed, silver-scaled hydra labeled “Free Silver Craze.” The heads are identified as “Jones, Crisp, Peffer, Harvey, Stewart, Wolcott, Bland, [and] Blackburn.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-19
Moses, holding the Ten Commandments, is confronted by an angry mob of capitalists, businessmen, and politicians, some shaking their fists at him. Caption: Chorus of “Conservatives” – Dangerous, socialistic, un-American doctrines!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-03-11
Woodrow Wilson, as Moses, stands on a rock with his left arm raised at the parting of the seas labeled “Republican Split,” through which a horde of Democrats labeled “Marshall, M’Combs, Bryan, Kern, Williams, O’Gorman, Harmon, Mack, Gore, Underwood, Clark, Watterson, [and] Harvey” escape the “Predatory Pharaohs” caught on the far shore as the sea closes between them. Caption: The walking is good to the Promised Land.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-31
Victor L. Mason informs R. A. Alger of his recent meeting with the editor of the North American Review, George B. Harvey. Harvey reports that Leonard Wood was not involved in the writing of James E. Runcie’s article. Included in this letter is a note written by Alger to President Roosevelt. Alger includes enclosures for Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-16