Italy--Naples

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Theodore Roosevelt writes that he hopes his sister and her husband will have the opportunity to take a trip around the world, and updates her on his own exploits aboard a ship with Kermit Roosevelt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-04-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Courteney Selous

President Roosevelt updates Frederick Courteney Selous on the preparations for his Africa trip. He is giving caravan manager R. J. Cunninghame the “power commensurate with his responsibility,” and has directed him to hire support staff. Roosevelt wants to pay his bills before leaving for Africa, and asks Selous to request that they be sent over. He likes the double-barreled Holland rifle, and looks forward to seeing Selous on the steamer at Naples. In a postscript, he wonders if Selous could arrange for pipe tobacco to be sent to Nairobi for Kermit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Reid

President Roosevelt was very interested in what Ambassador Reid wrote to him about the planned reform of the House of Lords, and about German Emperor William II. Roosevelt tells Reid about some of his own foreign relations with Germany, intimating that he used the United States Navy to help shore up relations with Germany during the Venezuela crisis. He qualifies that such threats of force must be “accompanied with every manifestation of politeness and friendship,” and that he follows the policy of “speaking softly and carrying a big stick.” Roosevelt additionally informs Reid of the route he plans to take on his way to Mombasa, and that he wishes to avoid official functions. He also hopes to avoid reporters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alfred E. Pease

President Roosevelt heartily accepts Sir Alfred E. Pease’s invitation to stay at his ranch in Africa. Roosevelt gives many details and asks questions about his safari planning, including: his itinerary to Mombasa; game he would like to find; his lack of physical fitness and the necessity to start out slowly; how much money he should advance to various outfitters; pack horses and saddles; taxidermists and naturalists he plans to bring along; hunting rifles and ammunition for the trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to A. S. Crowninshield

President Roosevelt rebukes Admiral Crowninshield for the tone of his previous letter, which made it sound as though Roosevelt had made an unqualified promise to put Crowninshield’s son, Casper S. Crowninshield, in a diplomatic post. Roosevelt reminds Crowninshield that he made the promise with the understanding that he would make the promotion as long as “it could be done without injustice to those with superior claims from the standpoint of the governmental service.” The State Department is currently disinclined to change the Consulship at Naples, as the current consul is approaching retirement age. When the time comes for him to retire and the Consulship in Naples change, Roosevelt promises to review Crowninshield’s case, but cannot promise that he will get the position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William M. Laffan

President Roosevelt confirms receipt of the letter from William M. Laffan’s letter that he sent from Naples and asks that Laffan notify him when he returns to the United States, as Roosevelt would like to speak with him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Eugene Hale

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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 Edmondo Mayor des Planches to William Loeb

Edmondo Mayor des Planches offers his assistance to President Roosevelt when Roosevelt lands in Italy. While Mayor des Planches informs William Loeb that Lloyd Christopher Griscom and Casper S. Crowninshield are at Roosevelt’s service, he is also available to coordinate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-23

Creator(s)

Mayor des Planches, Edmondo, 1851-1920

Letter from Francis Bowler Keene to Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-02

Creator(s)

Keene, Francis Bowler, 1856-1945

Letter from Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt to William Loeb

Laura d’Oremiuelx Roosevelt asks William Loeb if President Roosevelt can put her in contact with the consul in Cairo and the Italian ambassador ahead of her travel to Alexandria and Naples. She also requests a letter from the president, which will help to protect her on her trip, and hopes that she can meet with President Roosevelt when they are both in Naples.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Laura d'Oremieulx

Letter from Emil L. Boas to William Loeb

Emil L. Boas, an agent of the Hamburg-American Line, inquires whether the discounted fare for President Roosevelt’s upcoming trip from New York to Naples and Mombasa is satisfactory. Boas has arranged to charge Roosevelt’s party the lowest fare for the entire trip through New York to Mombasa rather than the regular rates for their accommodations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-11

Creator(s)

Boas, Emil L. (Emil Leopold), 1854-1912

Letter from Thomas Spencer Jerome to Theodore Roosevelt

Acting on the suggestion of his friend, Charles Lang Freer, Thomas Spencer Jerome contacts President Roosevelt about meeting again upon his return to America. Jerome would like to revisit their previous discussion “as to the nature of the human game in general.” However, he understands if Roosevelt does not have time to spare. If Roosevelt passes through Naples on his Africa trip, Jerome would gladly receive him at his villa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-28

Creator(s)

Jerome, Thomas Spencer, 1864-1914

Letter from Emil L. Boas to William Loeb

Emil L. Boas has received a cable from Hamburg and reports the schedules of the steamers Windhuk, Hamburg, and Kronprinz to William Loeb for President Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-23

Creator(s)

Boas, Emil L. (Emil Leopold), 1854-1912

Letter from Henry White to Theodore Roosevelt

Henry White received President Roosevelt’s letter but has waited until reaching Rome to answer it. White’s views on disarmament were sent in a confidential letter through the British Embassy’s dispatch bag. He has omitted any reference to Roosevelt’s observations about the German emperor although he has borrowed some of Roosevelt’s phraseology. White writes that Roosevelt’s action in Cuba was met with “universal admiration.” White saw the Chilean minister yesterday who said that Elihu Root’s visit there brought great comfort and was epoch making. Other topics in the letter include the German and Jesuit influence in the Vatican and the reputation of the emperor as an influencer, and White’s visit with the King of Italy and their discussion of new literacy-based immigration laws.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-20

Creator(s)

White, Henry, 1850-1927

Letter from Annette Bartlett Scott to Theodore Roosevelt

Annette Bartlett Scott informs President Roosevelt that her husband, Roosevelt’s friend, Joseph Scott died in Naples. Scott sends along a gift which her husband purchased for Roosevelt in Cairo.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-23

Creator(s)

Scott, Annette Bartlett, 1863-1941

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt while on vacation in Naples, Italy. The calm voyage has restored him as he did not realize how tired he was, and he particularly enjoyed seeing steep ravines made by lava from a crater high above the sea. Lodge finds some of what he has seen and done beautiful and thinks that Roosevelt would have enjoyed himself as well. As for parts of the cities, even the new quarters are dirty, and he thinks that there is “nothing so squalid as a shabby newness.” Lodge asks what Roosevelt wants him to say to the King when he is in London, and he is sorry for the affair involving Assistant Secretary of State Loomis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-08

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Chronology January 1884 to December 1891

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

Chronology October 1858 to December 1870

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association