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President Roosevelt sends a list of nominations for the Council of Fine Arts and encloses a copy of the executive order he issued to create such a council.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-18
President Roosevelt tells C. Grant La Farge that there may be a position for his father, John La Farge, in connection with the upcoming Tokyo Exhibition. Roosevelt has written to Exposition Commissioner Francis Davis Millet to find out.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-29
President Roosevelt asks Francis David Millet if there is a position for John La Farge in the Tokyo Exposition Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-29
After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-12
President Roosevelt feels that the American public will support the enterprise Halsey Cooley Ives is engaged in, and feels that the creation of such a museum of art will “be one of the strongest factors in the development of art education and of the appreciation of art,” not only in Missouri, but throughout the United States. He hopes that Ives is able to do the work he suggests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-18
President Roosevelt encloses a letter in which Charles Lang Freer has offered to bequeath his art collections to the Smithsonian Institution or United States Government, along with $500,000 to construct or secure a building suitable to house the art. Roosevelt suggests having the collection examined by William Sturgis Bigelow or John LaFarge if there are any doubts about its value. Freer makes this offer with certain conditions which Roosevelt believes are reasonable. Roosevelt urges Chief Justice Fuller, who is also the Chancellor of the Smithsonian, to accept the gift on behalf of the nation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-19
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Choate to contact Whitelaw Reid once John La Farge gets him the information.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-21
Justice Holmes has no suggestions to contribute to the letter he agrees with. He did not know that Henry Adams was a judge of Oriental art. He notes a change that Charles Lang Freer has made to a proposition about his art collection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-18
Secretary of State Hay writes to President Roosevelt that Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate will be heartbroken if he has to leave London before June, but the incoming ambassador, Whitelaw Reid, wishes to start in May. Hay also writes that John La Farge says the Harvard window will be ready in time, but Hay doubts that it will be.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-20
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
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
William A. Coffin wishes to reinforce John La Farge’s request to loan John Singer Sargent’s portrait of President Roosevelt for an exhibition by the Society of American Artists. The Society will need the painting delivered by the end of next week and will cover insurance for the portrait up to a valuation of $2,500. In addition, he guarantees the “place of honor” for the portrait at the exhibition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-07