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Theodore Roosevelt writes to Belle Roosevelt to update her on the status of his health. Roosevelt has been in the hospital, but is recovering and will go home the following week.
1918-02-28
President Roosevelt has examined the papers related to Dr. Austin M. Curtis of Freedman’s Hospital and has a high opinion of Paul Laurence Dunbar. He would appreciate Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock looking into the case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-01
Oliver D. Norton reports on his work in Kingston, Jamaica, following an earthquake that had left many wounded. Norton remarks on the unsanitary conditions of the city and the state in which he found the overcrowded hospitals. He praises the actions of the Jesuit priests and sisters who tended to the sick and wounded.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-21
United States Navy Surgeon General Rixey praises the Japanese Army’s medical department. The Japanese Army allocates a large number of personnel and a great deal of money to its medical department, and it is led by a number of officers of high rank. During the recent Russo-Japanese war, the Japanese Army was constantly transporting sick and injured soldiers from the front to hospitals in Japan, in addition to maintaining well-provisioned field hospitals. While they have not made discoveries in the field of sanitation, they have maintained good conditions for their troops and thus prevented sickness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes that he is happy with the birth of his grandchild and is glad Grace Stackpole Roosevelt and the baby are doing well. Roosevelt hopes to be out of the hospital soon and to see them in March.
1918-02-28
Quentin Roosevelt’s stories from this issue of The Grotonian, of which is he is one of the editors. The stories included by Roosevelt are “One Man with a Dream” and “Typical.” Also included is a mention that Archibald Roosevelt has recently visited the school.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915-01
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by the charitable work that young girls are doing in Huntington, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-25
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes for not remembering the hospitals John M. Neal mentions. He suggests writing army surgeon James Robb Church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-14
Theodore Roosevelt tells John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, that he is mistaken in believing that the American public will acknowledge Roosevelt as a leader again. Roosevelt does, however, believe that what he has said will influence public opinion and they will see that his position was right. Roosevelt sends two of his articles about the Lusitania disaster to Strachey, which were and are still not popular. Roosevelt sends his regards to Strachey’s daughter and wife and is glad their house has become an emergency hospital. Roosevelt will write James Bryce expressing his approval of Bryce’s report on German atrocities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his disappointment that he can not be present “at the dedication of the Frank Wayland Higgins Memorial Hospital.” Roosevelt knew Higgins well, and states while Roosevelt was governor he initially knew him as a state senator. Roosevelt details Higgins’s good qualities and regrets he cannot attend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-01
President Roosevelt sends Pembrook B. Banton a copy of a letter that he sent to Representative James M. Miller. He has also written to Surgeon General Walter Wyman asking if there is a chance of Banton being admitted to a government hospital.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-19
President Roosevelt thanks Sister Regis for the placard and hopes the hospital prospers in the new year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-25
President Roosevelt asks Governor Hoggatt of Alaska to look over some enclosed documents. He wonders about the feasibility of creating a hospital at Deering, Alaska, if it is even desirable. Roosevelt believes that control of reindeer should be kept as it currently is, as that would be preferable to doing something that could produce bad results. Roosevelt asks Hoggatt to look into the case of Elsie Oomalok.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-22
President Roosevelt is dissatisfied with the condition of things in Alaska, as set out by Lieutenant George Thornton Emmons’s recent report. He asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to work to increase the funds appropriated for the operation of schools and orphanages by lobbying in the committee dealing with the sundry civil bill. Because Congress gave Hitchcock, as Secretary of the Interior, the duty to provide services for the Native Americans in Alaska, Roosevelt believes “Congress should now have officially placed before them, as strongly as we know how to place it, the fact that we expect them to give you provision to enable you to make good for these poor people.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23
President Roosevelt asks why Horace K. Devereux is in the hospital, and hopes that it is nothing serious.
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1906-01-22
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb sends William F. Mattingly a ten dollar check for the Washington Hospital for Foundlings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-25
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb sends Bernard P. Mimmarck a ten dollar check for the Washington Home for Incurables.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-25
William Loeb sends Corinne Roosevelt Robinson a check from President Roosevelt to pay for his children’s subscription to the Orthopedic Hospital.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-21
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb sends a $10 check to support the Washington Hospital for Foundlings. Loeb requests that William F. Mattingly, treasurer for the hospital, acknowledge receipt of the check.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-21
An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The act stipulates funding for salaries of ambassadors and ministers, salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations, contingent expenses, foreign missions, and a number of international bureaus and commissions among other things.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28