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President Roosevelt explains the complex reasons he cannot appoint Senator Hale’s nominee, James Edmund Dunning, to the American Consulate in Milan, Italy, after all.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-06
Ellen A. King asks Theodore Roosevelt to have his secretary send Charles Le May’s address in British East Africa so she can contact his wife, whom she met last summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-06
Francis Bowler Keene has admired President Roosevelt since their time at Harvard, and he encloses a “tribute” he originally wrote in 1901 and has since edited for submission to a publication seeking verse about the Roosevelt administration. However, Keene does not believe the work is good enough to be published. He is grateful for Roosevelt’s support of his diplomatic career, and alludes to his application for the post of Consul General of Switzerland. “Countless people” have praised his devoted and conscientious work as a consul in Europe. Keene hopes to see Roosevelt in Naples next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-02
Professor John C. Freeman writes President Roosevelt regarding former Ambassador Bellamy Storer’s recent defense of the dismissal of Consul Carlton Bailey Hurst. Freeman shares a number of stories about what he has seen and heard—particularly in terms of nefarious behavior—among five U.S. diplomats in Europe. The letter largely focuses on the behavior of Hurst, who was appointed by McKinley as Consul General at Vienna in 1897 and later removed from office. Freeman notes that Hurst and his wife attended one particularly outrageous drunken party during their tenure in Vienna that ended with a “certain” attendee dancing the Can-Can while kicking out the room’s lightbulbs. Freeman closes by saying that he believes “all five bad consuls are now out of the service,” and again notes his extreme distaste for Hurst.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-14
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-28
Marcia Roosevelt Scovel apologizes for the attention given to her by the newspapers, which she has been attempting to stop. She is upset that they continue to bother her and her daughter Cornelia Scovel. Scovel has been in New Haven for two weeks and is going to New York. Scovel is leaving for Italy soon and invites President Roosevelt to visit her if he is ever in Florence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-18