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President Roosevelt discusses literature and a visit from his friends from North Dakota, the Sewall family and Mrs. Dow and her son. He lists all the attractions they saw in Washington, D.C., and who they met. Roosevelt relates that he has a cold but is very busy, and met the new French ambassador.
1903-02-08
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about a speech made by Eben S. Draper, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and owner of a business that manufactured textile processing machinery, that might have been misreported to Roosevelt. Lodge assures Roosevelt that Draper did not attack him in the speech and that the newspapers have mischaracterized it. He also lets Roosevelt know that there has been no change in the condition of his sister-in-law; the doctors have already given up on her but she is still “hanging on the edge”.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-08
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about the difficulties of negotiating peace between Russia and Japan. They wish to conduct the talks in Washington but Roosevelt feels it would be better at the Hague. Roosevelt relates the text of a letter Archie sent him and instructs Kermit to meet him at Bishop Lawrence’s on the 27th.
1905-06-14
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a trip to Pine Knot and visiting with the Wilmers. Roosevelt also discusses negotiations with Russia and Japan regarding an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt closes by saying he cannot wait to see Kermit at Bishop Lawrence’s.
1905-06-11
An itinerary for President Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Harvard for the commencement.
1905-06-27
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to arrange plans for him to stay at the Bishop’s or with one of his aunts. He says Kermit will then be with William Loeb in Boston and get to hear Roosevelt’s speech at Memorial Hall. He also reports that Edwin Arlington Robinson has been given a position in the Treasury Department. Finally, Roosevelt asks if Kermit would accompany him to visit Bishop Lawrence.
1905-06-01
Theodore Roosevelt has received Eugene F. Turner’s letter, but is not sure what Turner wants him to do, as he does not have any real power. He does not think that Bishop William Lawrence would willingly do anything that he did not believe to be right.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-07
President Roosevelt discusses his upcoming Harvard visit with his son Ted, who is considering moving for the coming school year. Roosevelt believes Ted should move into a boarding house outside campus, where he could better enjoy Cambridge’s social life, and save on rent. If Ted will accompany his father to Riverside Press and Chestnut Hill, they can have time to talk during the drive there.
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1907-02-14
President Roosevelt tells Robert Grant he plans to visit the Harvard Union because there is no Harvard institution in which he has a “heartier belief.” He asks Grant to consult Bishop William Lawrence and Henry Bainbridge Chapin about the details.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-12
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the holiday he had at Pine Knot, Virginia, with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. The president tells Kermit, “Mother is a great deal more pleased with it than any child with any toy I ever saw.” The president and Edith spent time with Joseph Wilmer and William Nivison Wilmer, who are “the most generous, thoughtful, self-effacing friends.” The president talks about his attempts to cook fried chicken and how Edith “greatly enjoyed” it as well as his attempts to encourage peace negotiations between Russia and Japan. The president looks forward to seeing Kermit at Bishop William Lawrence’s house and appreciates the recommendation of “that piece in Collier’s.”
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1905-06-11
After telling Kermit Roosevelt he can stay with Bishop William Lawrence at Harvard, President Roosevelt updates Kermit on family events. The president will be going to Pine Knot, Virginia, with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt next weekend. Yesterday the president played tennis with Ted Roosevelt and one of his friends. Yesterday evening, Admiral Isamu Takeshita brought some Japanese naval officers who had been with Heihachirō Tōgō at Port Arthur. The president called them “a formidable looking set and evidently dead game fighters!”
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1905-06-06
President Roosevelt updates his son, Kermit Roosevelt, on recent happenings. Surprisingly, the presidential elector from Montana was his friend and former ranch foreman, Arthur William Merrifield. He describes his and Ted Roosevelt”s continued boxing matches with Joseph Grant. Archibald and Quentin are recovering from “grip.” Unfortunately, Edith’s horse Yagenka may no longer be ridable.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-23
President Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody, the rector at Groton School, that he would like for Kermit Roosevelt to leave for the inauguration on March 2, and return on March 6. If he leaves on March 3, Roosevelt is worried he will miss the ceremony.
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1905-01-19
Julia Cunningham Lawrence thanks President Roosevelt for the autographed photograph.
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1905
Eugene F. Turner implores Theodore Roosevelt assist the George Peabody College for Teachers in his capacity as a member of the Board of Trust. Turner explains that the campus of the College—alongside its public funding—will be given over to the Methodist school of Vanderbilt University by the University of Nashville. Due to a misunderstanding communicated to the Methodist Episcopal Bishop William Lawrence, it was assumed that the Peabody fund could be put toward the religious institution, while the reality of the Tennessee constitution and George Peabody’s will indicate otherwise.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Root information regarding a pamphlet that Bellamy Storer sent to the members of the cabinet. Storer did not give a full account of the events that led up to his dismissal from his ambassadorial post. Roosevelt seeks to address this by including the text of letters between himself and the Storers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-02
Senator Lodge returns a letter from Bishop William Lawrence which President Roosevelt had sent to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-09
Charles J. Bonaparte has received a confidential letter from Bishop Lawrence in favor of an honorary LL.D. for Senator Lodge. Lawrence requested talking points favorable to Lodge to use before the Harvard Board of Overseers.
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1904-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt tells George von Lengerke Meyer he is not sure there is anything to be done to make things better in politics. Roosevelt believes Republican leaders “stole the nomination” in Chicago, Illinois, and that such action “creates a train of evil consequences so extensive that it is almost impossible by any single act afterwards to undo the evil.” It was extraordinary to see men such as Bishop William Lawrence and President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University “explicitly or implicitly, endorse the lowest forms of political immorality.” Roosevelt compares the Progressive platform to that of Abraham Lincoln and the early Republicans, and accuses the men who object to these principles of being the “spiritual heirs of the Cotton Whigs.” He believes that what happened in Chicago makes it likely that Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic Party will win the fall presidential election. When Roosevelt returns, he would like for Meyer and Frank B. Kellogg to visit him.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1913-10-07
Charles J. Bonaparte wrote to President Roosevelt about an honorary degree for Senator Cabot Lodge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-02