Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

President Roosevelt returns Nelson O’Shaughnessy’s letter to Secretary of State Root. Additionally, he encloses letters from Julia Ward Howe concerning the Russian refugee, and requests that Root speak with him before acting on the delicate case. Roosevelt jokingly taunts Root that while the letter he will send will be duller than Root’s speech, he will be in Africa when it is read, and he does not have to deliver it in person like Root.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is very sorry that he cannot attend the event celebrating Julia Ward Howe.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Maud Howe Elliott for the paper cutter. He greatly admired her mother, Julia Ward Howe.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt is unable to be present in Boston on the 8th to speak of Maud Howe Elliott’s mother. He had reverence for her work and extraordinary devotion for her. Roosevelt is very sorry he will be unable to attend.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt gives permission for his letter to Mrs. Wilkinson to be published. Roosevelt adds a statement in support of military readiness and against pacifism.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-12-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Reginald Wright Kauffman’s poem but suggests that he take out one word. Roosevelt offers advice on where to publish the poem and will do his best to see that it gets the widest circulation possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt warns Henry Cabot Lodge not to trust Charles Howard Thompson. While Roosevelt agrees that Thompson is a vigorous and interesting man, Roosevelt thinks Thompson has led a rebellious career in the Progressive Party. Roosevelt is pleased with what Lodge said about John W. Weeks, but he wishes Weeks was not opposed to women’s suffrage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he is welcome to show his letter to William Garrott Brown. Roosevelt was “genuinely shocked” to see what Brown wrote. Roosevelt believes that a comment in George Otto Trevelyan’s The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay applies to people who are trying to “write a national anthem to order.” Roosevelt feels that Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” would be a fine national anthem. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt thanks Gilder for the volume of poems, which arrived as he was signing this letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Joel Chandler Harris of a recent conversation that he had with Fitzhugh Lee and Archibald Willingham Butt in which they discussed the popularity of the song Dixie, and how they wished that the Battle Hymn of the Republic was as well known. Roosevelt asks if Harris would print the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic in his magazine to help popularize the song.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Maud Howe Elliott sends Theodore Roosevelt her mother, Julia Ward Howe’s, paper cutter. She asks him to “accept it in memory of one of your most loving a loyal friends and supporters.” Elliott also sends a book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-30

Creator(s)

Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-1948

Nellie Brazer Suckling asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write a short article on his ideas “concerning a model newspaper,” to be presented at a meeting she is organizing as part of her church. Suckling additionally asks whether, if Roosevelt consents to write such a piece, he would be willing to also let it be published in a magazine she is involved with.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-11

Creator(s)

Suckling, Nellie Brazer, 1865-1920

Alan Hudson asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to write a letter about the place and work of a mother, to be read at a Mother’s Day celebration.

In a handwritten note, she instructs her secretary to decline because Theodore Roosevelt is no longer in public life. The letter should be similar to the one written to Success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-05-03

Joseph B. Gilder encloses proof of William A. Baillie-Grohman’s The Master of Game. Theodore Roosevelt requested the proof in order to help him make a decision about writing a foreword.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-02

Creator(s)

Gilder, Joseph B. (Benson), 1858-1936

William N. Tilchin describes a seminar at Boston University on February 24, 2011, in which students were invited to look at, handle, and discuss items from the university’s Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The article includes Tilchin’s address at the start of the event which summarized Roosevelt’s life and career, and in which he highlighted four aspects of Roosevelt’s presidency: public relations, progressivism, environmentalism, and foreign policy. Tilchin also asserts his view that Roosevelt ranks second only to Abraham Lincoln among the presidents, and he encouraged the attendees to consider joining the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Three documents on display at the seminar–a contract, a campaign poster, and a letter–appear in the article along with three photographs of some of the students in attendance. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Sally Flandrau Cutcheon does not wish to receive more letters from Charles Macomb Flandrau in the style of the last one. Cutcheon describes a story told to her by Joe Humphreys about some Native Americans in the Dakotas. She is attending the Women’s Congress to see Julia Ward Howe speak and recently visited her family.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1891-10-30

Creator(s)

Cutcheon, Sarah (Sally) Flandrau, 1866-1947

Text of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech on suffrage delivered at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, on August 30, 1912, supporting equal suffrage for men and women.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912-08-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919