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Charles I. Williams writes to Theodore Roosevelt about the recently incorporated Westmoreland Historical Association, since he knows both Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are interested in Virginia. Williams tells Roosevelt about the association and their goal of preserving historic sites, and invites Roosevelt to become a member.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-14
Ray H. Mattison lost the address for the Forester who is going to analyze the timber from Theodore Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross Cabin. He hopes Rodney C. Loehr can resend it. Mattison enjoyed meeting Loehr at the Minnesota Historical Society and is grateful for his assistance.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-04-16
Ray H. Mattison encloses a rough draft of his report on the authenticity of Theodore Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross Cabin for Russell Reid to review. He asks Reid if the North Dakota Historical Society has a negative of the cabin as it appears in the present.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-02-16
Historian Ray H. Mattison directs Superintendent Reid to a manuscript on the life of Mr. and Mrs. William Reid. He believes that the manuscript would make an excellent article for any Great Plains region historical society.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-04-27
Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary states that he has shown James E. Maynard’s letter to Roosevelt and Roosevelt was pleased to sign the enclosure for the La Fayette County Historical Society.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-10
Theodore Roosevelt is not sure what to do with the papers Ripley A. Hanrick has sent him. Roosevelt suggests Hanrick place them in a historical society in Texas. If that is not possible, Roosevelt will put them to the New York Historical Society.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs Mayor Paden that he is unable to speak at the Mississippi Valley and Illinois State Historical Societies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-20
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank B. Kelley for the guide to the City of New York and informs him that he is unable to speak before the City History Club and the League for Political Education.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-20
Theodore Roosevelt informs John Franklin Jameson that he cannot accept the presidency of the American Historical Association and would prefer not to be named as a vice president, as he has come to dread making addresses and must do so continually.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-19
President Roosevelt is very pleased to accept honorary membership in the Chicago Historical Society.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-04
President Roosevelt congratulates the Niagara Frontier Historical Society on the dedication of the monument.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-24
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt accepts the position of corresponding member of the Western Historical Society. Roosevelt informs George D. Fearey he will give an address if and when he finds the time to travel West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-06-07
Personally, and on behalf of the Pennsylvania State Historical Society, Robert P. Habgood regrets that Theodore Roosevelt cannot attend the organization’s annual banquet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-04
Edward H. Virgin asks Theodore Roosevelt to address the New York Library Club, which has a membership of around 400 librarians. The theme of the meeting will probably be Special Libraries so the librarians can better understand them and share them with the public. Virgin believes if Roosevelt were to speak on the New York Historical Society it would also be a public service, raising awareness of Historical Societies and how they might be improved.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-25
Mayor Paden hopes Theodore Roosevelt will accept the invitation to speak at the joint historical society meeting in Evanston, Illinois.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16
William Milligan Sloane informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has been nominated second vice president of the American Historical Association. If he accepts, this will make him president in 1912. Sloane hopes Roosevelt will accept, because it will advance the interests of historical study in the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-10
Thomas Z. Lee informs William Loeb that he recently received the letter that Loeb sent to Thomas Hamilton Murray, the recently deceased Secretary-General of the American Irish Historical Society. President Roosevelt’s resignation from the society will go before the executive council at its next meeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-11
William G. Stanard confirms receipt of the letter William Loeb had sent to Robert A. Lancaster informing him that, in light of his upcoming retirement from office, President Roosevelt is resigning from the Virginia Historical Society. Stanard will comply with Roosevelt’s request to remove his name from the membership list, but says that the organization regrets the loss of him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-01
President Roosevelt was unanimously named an honorary member of the German American Historical Society at their annual meeting. Society president Albert Bernheim encloses a diploma of honorary membership.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-24
Admiral Dewey has read John W. Vrooman’s address at the Founders and Patriots meeting, which cleared up for Dewey the missed junction of American and British troops from John Burgoyne and Barry St. Leger’s regiments during the Saratoga Campaign of 1777. Dewey hopes Vrooman might one day also write about French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse’s action that lead to the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. Dewey and his wife Mildred McLean Dewey look forward to the visit of Vrooman and his wife, Anna Ford Vrooman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-29