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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Orville Hitchcock Platt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Orville Hitchcock Platt

President Roosevelt did not realize how interested Senator Platt was in the career of Aaron Homer Byington, United States Consul in Naples when he acted to assign Senator Matthew Stanley Quay’s brother to that post. Roosevelt offers to assign Byington to a choice of other Mediterranean posts. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks Platt to “let up on that delegate bill,” allowing Alaska a delegate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Francis B. Loomis to William Loeb

Letter from Francis B. Loomis to William Loeb

First Assistant Secretary of State Loomis summarizes for William Loeb the situation regarding the removal of Aaron Homer Byington from the Consulship at Naples, Italy, and how Jerome A. Quay came to be appointed there, including the influence of Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt and friends of the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay in the matter. Loomis suggests alternate posts for Byington.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-28

Creator(s)

Loomis, Francis B. (Francis Butler), 1861-1948

Letter from A. J. Woodcock to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from A. J. Woodcock to Theodore Roosevelt

A. J. Woodcock praises President Roosevelt’s writings about the West and his embodiment of “the strenuous life.” He presents an old Roman coin that Woodcock’s father obtained in Catania, Sicily, as a “souvenir of the regard of the sportsmen of America for you, their chief.” Woodcock noticed with interest the recent visit of Chief White Calf and the Blackfeet Indian delegation to the Capitol.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-07

Creator(s)

Woodcock, A. J. (Albert J.), 1857-1927