Your TR Source
President Roosevelt has received the six volumes and is certain he will enjoy them. He wishes Dr. Albert Shaw happy holidays.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-31
President Roosevelt wishes a happy New Year to the Portland Commercial Club, along with all of the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and the country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-31
President Roosevelt is glad to hear the good news about New York’s population, and wishes the City Hall Reporter’s Association a happy New Year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-30
President Roosevelt wishes Don Hardy, his “companion of the old cow punching days,” a merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-07
President Roosevelt forwards to Attorney General Bonaparte the Interstate Commerce Commission’s report, letters, and a map on the Edward Henry Harriman matter. He suggests that Bonaparte publish the report at the same time he announces the law suit. In a postscript dated July 11, Roosevelt responds to a letter he received from Bonaparte in the meantime. He expects to be “in an awful row” regarding Ulysses S. Bratton. He discusses the timing of Alexander McDonald McBlair’s and Mary Tayloe Key’s marriage, as it relates to McBlair’s responsibilities in the Oregon land fraud cases. He praises Bonaparte’s handling of the tobacco case. Finally, he alerts Bonaparte that Senator William Peters Hepburn wants to speak with him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-10
President Roosevelt thanks Governor Terrell for the telegram. Roosevelt paid “no heed whatever” to what the publications wrote. Roosevelt enjoyed Georgia Day and “appreciated the courtesy” they showed him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-15
President Roosevelt believes Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte should follow the letter from the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance regarding the torpedo station matter, but thinks that if possible it would be good to delay taking action until after the election. Roosevelt is pleased that Bonaparte will be able to attend the upcoming naval review, and remarks on his plans surrounding it. He additionally addresses a matter regarding half-holidays and pay, and clarifies his intention regarding the matter. Roosevelt does not intend for the holidays to increase pay, but did not feel that it was right that “men who work with the head, from clerks to bank presidents, should have a holiday as a matter of course while the wage-worker does not have it.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-03
President Roosevelt is not surprised by the conclusion Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte is coming to in the Charleston navy yard matter. He offers his view regarding the work done in the Washington, D.C., navy yard, saying that while labor people are concerned with making sure work is given to the laborers there, they also demand extra rights and holidays that laborers in exterior shipbuilding yards do not get. Roosevelt feels they should act along the lines they decided on earlier in the summer and see what the result is.
The “Charleston navy yard matter” refers to an incident in which Lieutenants J. W. G. Walker and Francis R. Harris were transferred out of supervisory roles in the Charleston navy yards, seemingly due to political pressure from a corporation that had been contracted to conduct government work, and which Walker and Harris had been holding to strict standards of quality. While Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte concluded the transfer was not influenced, he ultimately reversed it so as to avoid the appearance of having been pressured.
William Loeb informs Florence E. Ben-Oliel that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt deeply appreciates Ben-Oliel’s invitation, it is impossible for her to accept due to her engagements during the holiday season.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-02
President Roosevelt congratulates the school children of San Diego, California, on the establishment of Arbor Day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-16
President Roosevelt is sorry that there is no chance of such service for Reynolds and would like Nicholas M. Butler to visit over the holidays.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-03
President Roosevelt wishes Alexander Lambert a merry Christmas and is pleased that he has taken an interest in the heads.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-27
President Roosevelt thanks James Abram Garfield, a grandson of President Garfield, for the gift and then relates the Roosevelt family’s Christmas activities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-26
Theodore Roosevelt will do everything he can to get George Bird Grinnell the interviews.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-18
Gifford Pinchot was sorry not to see Theodore Roosevelt again in Pittsburgh. Pinchot had to give a talk at the Game Protective Association. Meeting men outside the factories as they enter, quit, or go to lunch seems to be working well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-07-07
Zakaria Kizito Kisingiri describes the celebrations that took place in Uganda for the coronation of King George V of England. Kisingiri also sends his regards from all who met Theodore Roosevelt and his son during their travels in Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-18
Father Curran hopes Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the holidays. He commends Roosevelt’s article “Miners at Home” and expresses gratitude for the kind allusions to himself and aspires to be worthy of Roosevelt’s esteem.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-02
William H. Taft sends President Roosevelt and his family holiday wishes from himself and his wife, and hopes that “the lions in your path be all of [Roosevelt’s] own seeking” and that “they be promptly added to the stuffed variety.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-25
Victor Geza Fischer sends his best wishes and some books to President Roosevelt and family, and hopes they will enjoy them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-25
Jacob A. Riis wishes President Roosevelt and the Roosevelt family happy holidays, and he looks forward to seeing them in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-23