Holls, Frederick William, 1857-1903

Letter from Andrew Carnegie to Theodore Roosevelt

Andrew Carnegie accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation and sets a date for their luncheon. Carnegie congratulates Roosevelt on Archibald B. Roosevelt’s recovery. Roosevelt now has time for other matters. Issuance of capital stock to finance railroads needs to be regulated. Carnegie will show Roosevelt his speech for the Peace Conference and hopes to receive suggestions. He thinks that he will have greater success if Elihu Root goes to the Hague with him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-12

Creator(s)

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernst von Halle

President Roosevelt thanks Ernst von Halle for the books and recalls meeting him with his friend Frederick William Holls. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caroline Sayles Holls

President Roosevelt thanks Caroline Sayles Holls for sending him the memorial volume of her late husband, Frederick William Holls, for whom Roosevelt had great respect.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Herman C. Kudlich

President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the memorial service in honor of Frederick W. Holls.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Shaw

Unless Senator Platt is insistent on a place for a Connecticut man, President Roosevelt will promote Mr. Hill. Roosevelt was grieved at the death of Frederick William Holls.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Caroline Minerva Sayles Holls

President Roosevelt extends his sympathy after the death of Frederick William Holls.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Williams

Ralph Trautmann has expressed fears that events at Ellis Island have given citizens of German origin the impression that the Roosevelt administration is influenced by anti-foreign feeling. Roosevelt would like William Williams to go over the immigration situation on Ellis Island with Trautmann and Frederick W. Holls to show that Trautmann’s fears are unfounded.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from William F. King to Theodore Roosevelt

William F. King recommends that attorney William Wickham Smith be generously remunerated for “the successful work that he has accomplished” in the Japanese silk fraud case.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-22

Creator(s)

King, William F. (William Frederick), 1850-1909

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Vice President Roosevelt recently spoke with Frederick William Holls about his trip to Europe. Holls was in St. Petersburg, Russia, and everyone he met expressed their admiration and fondness for Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock and his family.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Governor Roosevelt provides a letter of introduction for Frederick William Holls to Senator Lodge, noting that Holls served as the Secretary of the Peace Conference at the Hague last summer and is “sound on every question from expansion to honest government.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1900-03-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Caroline M. Holls

President Roosevelt expresses his sympathy to Caroline M. Sayles Holls upon hearing of the death of her husband Frederick William Holls.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-07-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler discusses the politics behind the battle to reorganize New York’s educational system. He includes a postscript mentioning that Governor Odell approves of a unification plan, as does the Department of Public Instruction.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-13

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Letter from Albert Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt

Albert Shaw writes to President Roosevelt to discuss the recent death of Frederick William Holls and Frank D. Hill as a possible replacement. He mentions Roosevelt’s involvement during the recent situation in the Government Printing Office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-31

Creator(s)

Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947

Letter from John Barrett to Benjamin F. Barnes

John Barnett writes to Benjamin F. Barnes to clear up miscommunication regarding Dr. Shaw and Frederick William Holls, as well as to confirm that he will meet with President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to discuss matters in South America and the Orient.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-24

Creator(s)

Barrett, John, 1866-1938

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler writes to President Roosevelt to inform him that he has enclosed a letter concerning the financial situation. Butler mentions receiving news of George Frederick Holls’ death, and he comments on a recent visit to Roosevelt’s home in Oyster Bay, New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-23

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Letter from John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt

The fears of Frederick William Holls are unfounded and Secretary of State Hay has no intention of diplomatically recognizing the papacy during President Roosevelt’s absence. Hay also comments on Myron T. Herrick’s confidence that he will be nominated for governor of Ohio and on relations with Great Britain.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-16

Creator(s)

Hay, John, 1838-1905

Letter from Alford Warriner Cooley to Theodore Roosevelt

Alford Warriner Cooley objects to Frederick William Holls’s plan to replace Henry Osterheld as postmaster of the Yonkers Post Office. Cooley argues that Osterheld is a fine public servant and is only opposed by a small minority of residents for political reasons.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-12

Creator(s)

Cooley, Alford Warriner, 1873-1913

Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to George B. Cortelyou

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw returns several letters. Mr. Holls’s plan for baggage handling is similar to previous plans and Shaw believes that most criticism is unfounded. He uses an example of a woman’s efforts to retrieve her twenty trunks in New York, who subsequently retrieved them in Washington, D.C., declaring that she had no dutiable goods.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-15

Creator(s)

Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932

Memorandum regarding the application of the International Banking Corporation

Secretary of War Elihu Root has received the application of the International Banking Corporation to serve as fiscal agent of the federal government in the Far East.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-27

Creator(s)

Unknown

Telegram to Mr. Brown

Mr. Brown’s employer instructs him to investigate the meetings Frederick William Holls had with leading British politicians. Holls serves as a mouthpiece for the Roosevelt administration and he has been saying that the United States will not tolerate any interference in the effort to build a Nicaraguan Canal.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-18

Creator(s)

Unknown