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Thomas O. Conant sends President Roosevelt a description of a Thanksgiving reception given by the ambassador in Vienna. He describes the more positive public opinion of Americans which is held by foreigners since President Roosevelt took office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry White for sharing with him a letter by an anonymous Russian that indicates the United States’s weakened international standing due, Roosevelt thinks, to President Woodrow Wilson’s policies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-24
Maurice Francis Egan, Minister to Denmark, sends a copy of the Danish magazine Varden, which mentions President Roosevelt. Egan also sends a copy of a sonnet that he wrote which was published in Collier’s Weekly, and which a Danish magazine offered a prize for a translation. He believes that the recent financial and ministerial changes in Denmark, along with the fallout from a scandal involving Danish politician Peter Adler Alberti, have made the people more serious. Egan tells Roosevelt that he is pleased with the result of the election, which he followed largely through reports in French and English newspapers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-23
The law faculty and students in Montevideo, Uruguay, held a meeting to decide whether or not to provide a reception for Elihu Root. The discussion is heated and the final consensus is to not hold a reception due to the United States’ current actions in foreign countries.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-08
Sherrard Billings writes President Roosevelt to thank him for the letters of introduction to several American ambassadors in Europe. During his travels abroad, Billings found a great deal of admiration for the President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-31
President Roosevelt confirms receipt of William Woodville Rockhill’s recent letter and agrees with his opinion. Roosevelt states that he does not have “much hope for peace” between Japan and Russia since the Russians are “such fools”.
1905-08-09
Governor Roosevelt has firmly decided he will not accept the Vice Presidency. He is corresponding with Frederick Courtenay Selous, a big game hunter from South Africa, about the Second Boer War.
1900-02-05