Letter from Rollin Hillyer Cooke to Charles J. Bonaparte
Rollin Cooke writes Charles J. Bonaparte thanking him for his letter to the Springfield Republican.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-31
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Letters to the editor
Letter from Nathan Bijur to Eaton S. Drone
Nathan Bijur defends President Roosevelt’s actions and character in response to a political cartoon published in the New York Herald. He was surprised that a dispatch printed in the Herald contained incorrect information about the reason that Roosevelt refused to see a delegation from the National Association of Stationary Engineers. Since Roosevelt can only receive delegations related to public business, Bijur argues that the situation “has not the remotest relation to labor or labor movements.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-17
Letter from Nathan Bijur to William Loeb
Nathan Bijur informs William Loeb that he has written a letter about a false statement to the editor of the New York Herald. Although Bijur believes that he could force the Herald to publish his letter, he feels this action would be unwise since the Herald has shown signs that it is becoming less inclined to support Judge Alton D. Parker. As a result, Bijur does not want to “force an issue on comparatively less important items.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-11
Draft of a letter from Nathan Bijur to Eaton S. Drone
Nathan Bijur defends President Roosevelt’s actions and character in response to a political cartoon published in the New York Herald. He was surprised that a dispatch printed in the Herald contained incorrect information about the reason that Roosevelt refused to see a delegation from the National Association of Stationary Engineers. Since Roosevelt can only receive delegations related to public business, Bijur argues that the situation “has not the remotest relation to labor or labor movements.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-08-10
TRA announces new journal feature
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that it is inaugurating another regular feature in its journal, “TR-Era Images.” A photograph, without caption or identification, will be presented in each issue, and readers will be asked to identify the subject and its historical context. The section also reprints a letter to the editor of the Providence Journal quoting Theodore Roosevelt, and it includes text box listing the officers of the TRA along with guidelines for submitting articles to the journal.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
2008
Roosevelt the coming man
Joseph Schwarz argues that the recent increase in socialist votes during the recent election sustains Theodore Roosevelt’s judgment as a leader and statesman. Roosevelt’s repeated warnings against the advance of socialism have gone unheeded. In the future, when the socialist vote is running into the millions, the Republican and Democratic parties will call Roosevelt to the presidency.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-11-13
Letter from Charles A. Conant to Theodore Roosevelt
Charles A. Conant sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his letter to the Evening Post, repelling their criticism of Roosevelt’s action in the Panic of 1907.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-08-23
Tennessee history
In a letter to the editor, Edward P. Moses states that the Senate Committee of Education will hear Senator John Houk’s bill providing for the collection, transcription, publication, and distribution of materials relating to Tennessee history on the following Monday. He discusses how many books on history were possible because of manuscript collections.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-04-23
Corporal punishment
Charles O. Lander decries corporal punishment as both inhumane and ineffective and instead advocates the use of solitary confinement, hard work, and “nourishing but not too plentiful food” as a more humane alternative.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-04-25
Why bonds at all?
Celia Baldwin Whitehead questions Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh’s plan to issue the total amount of Panama bonds at a three percent interest and instead proposes issuing currency as needed to pay running expenses, thereby taking out the need for bankers.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-09
Mark Twain’s opinion of Theodore Roosevelt underwent a change
In connection to the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 letter by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt, editor, James E. Edmonds, reprints a 1907 editorial criticizing Twain’s refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi and Twain’s response defending his friendship.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-20
Mark Twain and Roosevelt
The author reviews the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 manuscript by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt. The manuscript was in connection with Twain’s 1907 letter to the editor responding to James E. Edmond’s editorial criticizing his refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi wherein Twain defends his friendship with Roosevelt. The author speculates why Twain did not publish the 1909 manuscript.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-20
Bargain with the Mormon Church
Robert M. Stevenson, President of Westminster College, Utah, quotes an article from Pearson’s Magazine on Theodore Roosevelt’s alleged “bargain with the Mormon Church” to deliver electoral votes in exchange for policies favoring the Church’s practices and representatives. Stevenson comments on whether the Democratic party will show a “greater regard for national welfare than for party advancement” and if the country will finally recognize the importance of a Federal marriage law.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-22
The Bulloway pension bill
Nicholas I. M. Bogert commends The Tribune’s recent editorial on the Sulloway pension bill for giving a true understanding of military pensions as “a reward for service and a moderate assistance, not a sole support.” He wishes it could be distributed to all senators.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-16
Self-explanatory letters
In a series of correspondence, Rollo Ogden accuses the Columbia University Quarterly of not telling the whole story regarding a statement from President Butler of Columbia University.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. Lloyd Derby
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a signed draft and approves of J. Lloyd Derby’s letter to the Times. Roosevelt also mentions his Kansas City speech and tells Derby to tell Roger, the farmer he quoted, to look out for it.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-06-07
Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge praises President Roosevelt’s selection of Charles Bonaparte as Special Prosecutor for the Post Office Investigation. Lodge states that the Boston Herald has published some highly negative letters about Roosevelt written by Senator Aldrich. Lodge asks that Roosevelt give him a written order so there would be no issue that he act as a U.S. government representative in the arbitration over the border dispute between Alaska and Canada, which results in the Hay-Herbert Treaty. Some correspondence of Lodge’s with Shaw are enclosed, and Lodge discusses his concerns with Shaw’s proposed organizational changes in the Customs Service’s transportation division.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-07-01
A standard of gentlemanliness
Letter to the editor faulting an unnamed Southern governor for visiting William Randolph Hearst and not President Roosevelt. The writer of the letter, “New Yorker,” claims that this displays what the governor believes constitutes a gentleman. In a handwritten note, Richard Watson Gilder indicates that he wrote the letter.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-02-04
Shipbuilding for the Navy
In a letter to the editor, T. A. Brassey argues that the British Navy should not focus on producing Dreadnaught-class battleships. He cites the recent sinking of large ships, especially during the Russo-Japanese war, to show that even heavily-armored ships are vulnerable to submarine mines and torpedoes. Furthermore, the costly large battleships are vulnerable to accidents at sea, and the more expensive guns on a ship the greater the financial loss when it sinks. Finally, Brassey argues that having more, smaller ships will allow for the great training and promotion of young captains.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-28