International travel

Letter from Frances M. Wolcott to Theodore Roosevelt

Frances M. Wolcott informs President Roosevelt that she has given a woman a letter of introduction, which may be presented to Roosevelt. The woman is the daughter of an American mother and an Italian father. She is married to an Italian naval officer, and has never been to the United States, but has lived in Turkey and Asia. Wolcott thinks she wishes to write about her impressions of America, and thinks Roosevelt will find her intelligent and interested in understanding the real conditions of the country.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry L. Stimson

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Secretary of War Stimson for sending the fine speech by Judge Emile Henry Lacombe and encloses it with the letter. He asks that Stimson convey his compliments to Lacombe when he sees him and comments on how nice it was to see Stimson and his family yesterday. He encourages Stimson to take Mrs. Stimson on his trip to South America as he did with Mrs. Roosevelt on his trips to Panama and Elihu Root did with his wife when he went to South America.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John R. Parsons

Theodore Roosevelt has German ancestry and has no prejudice against Germany. However, he disagrees with John R. Parsons that the United States should stay neutral and that Americans should not take passage on the ships of belligerent nations. Parsons is willing to see Americans killed at sea and the Wilson administration is acquiescing to these murders. Roosevelt believes the United States should be standing up for international rights.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joaquín Fernández Montúfar

Theodore Roosevelt reports that Mrs. Edith Roosevelt is “entirely restored to health” and remembers the courtesy Joaquín Fernández Montúfar and the Costa Rican government showed her when she visited. Roosevelt offers his assistance if he can be of any help in Costa Rica’s prosperity.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert J. Beveridge

Theodore Roosevelt sends Albert J. Beveridge letters and states he is looking forward to reading Beveridge’s articles. Roosevelt is skeptical about Beveridge’s biography of John Marshall.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-04

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

President Roosevelt does not object to Secretary of War Taft’s travel changes, but needs to know if Taft is visiting St. Petersburg so he can inform ambassadors.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-12

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

President Roosevelt advises Secretary of War Taft to cancel his planned visits to Berlin, Paris, and St. Petersburg and instead depart from Cherbourg on November 11, citing public business as the reason for the changes.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Reid

President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Reid for some clippings he has sent, and says that he finds Sydney Brooks’ criticisms of American policy in the Philippines to be expected, but finds the current situation preferable to the British administration of Malaysia. Roosevelt also finds the distinctions drawn by The London Times between treatments of Japanese workers at the hands of Americans and Australians to “have a certain comic side.” Roosevelt cannot say what Secretary of War William H. Taft will do, but he hopes Taft will come directly home after traveling through Russia.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kentarō Kaneko

President Roosevelt thanks Baron Kaneko for his concern about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s illness. He explains why the United States wishes to restrict members of the Japanese working class from migrating to the United States. Roosevelt believes that this will ease tensions between both countries. The new commission on immigration might also consider restricting immigration from Europe.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker

President Roosevelt wishes Commander Booth-Tucker safe travels abroad and “a safe and speedy return.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to McCoskry Butt

After the election, President Roosevelt would like General Butt to have lunch with him and go over Butt’s experience abroad and discuss the army and national guard situations in the United States.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-06

Telegram from Elihu Root to Robert Bacon

Elihu Root informs Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon that he hopes to reach Panama by September 16. If the USS Mayflower can be ready by then, at Colon, Panama, to take him to Cartagena, Colombia, he will probably be able to return via San Francisco.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Gleaves

President Roosevelt has spoken to Admiral Taylor who has approved Albert Gleaves to go to Berlin. Edith Roosevelt will enjoy having lunch with Gleaves soon and Roosevelt asks Gleaves to also invite Secretary of the Navy Moody.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leslie M. Shaw

At Senator Lodge’s suggestion, President Roosevelt would like Secretary of the Treasury Shaw to help Robert Shaw’s widow return from abroad.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-02

Letter from Robert Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Robert Grant and his wife are going abroad, and he asks President Roosevelt for a letter of introduction to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid in London, so that they might be able to visit Parliament or any interesting court events. He approved of Roosevelt’s recent message on lawbreakers and sympathizes with his desire to break up trusts and enact laws that will prevent combinations. Lest Roosevelt think that Grant is a “mere flatterer,” he informs him that he disapproves of his attitude towards judges with whom he disagrees. Grant closes with a message of support for Secretary of War William H. Taft’s nomination for president.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-03

Letter from Victor Howard Metcalf to Bernard Goldsmith

Secretary of the Navy Metcalf tells Bernard Goldsmith that the Department of the Navy will not pay for the inventor of the Bender Smoke Consumer to travel to the United States.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-16

Letter from Frank McIntyre to William Loeb

Frank McIntyre forwards a telegram from Secretary of War William H. Taft detailing his planned return route to the United States from Vladivostok with a stop in Paris. Taft asks that Ambassador to France Henry White inform him of anything particular he should do while in Paris.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from Isaac H. Cocks to William Loeb

Isaac H. Cocks assures William Loeb that the people of Nassau County stand with the president. Cocks’s son Representative William W. Cocks will likely arrive from Genoa on November 20.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of War Taft is enclosing some letters regarding the conditions on the Philippines for President Roosevelt. Taft thinks that the political situation is improving, although he does not think General Leonard Wood has a firm grasp of it. Taft will stay in the Philippines for another week before continuing on to Russia and Germany.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-18

Letter from Lloyd Carpenter Griscom to Elihu Root

Ambassador Griscom writes for the State Department’s records a short account of Secretary of State Root’s stay in Brazil. Griscom details those who took the voyage with Root, the dinners Root attended and gave, the dignitaries he met, and the cities he visited. Griscom will collect the speeches Root made during his Brazilian trip and transmit them to the department as soon as they are available.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-31