Libraries

Theodore Roosevelt wishes to introduce Charles Rufus Skinner to John S. Billings. Skinner served as Superintendent of Public Instruction in New York during Roosevelt’s time as Civil Service Commissioner and Roosevelt was pleased by his work and accomplishments, including the organization of the State Teachers’ Library. Skinner wishes to speak with Billings about a similar endeavor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-02

On behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, his secretary encloses a booklet for Mr. Dahmer of Charles Scribners’ Sons to bind for Roosevelt’s library.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-02

Theodore Roosevelt declines Robert Mountsier’s request to help fund a library. While Roosevelt would like to see such a library exist, he has no funds and does not know many financial people that can help.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-05

President Roosevelt does not think he can advise James Carleton Young other than to say that he does not understand why he will not leave his library in Minneapolis. Roosevelt wants the best libraries to be “diffused all over the country, just as much in the West as in the East.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-29

President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop and is pleased about the libraries. Roosevelt is pleased that Bishop is going to Panama.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-12

President Roosevelt is very glad that there is an effort underway to preserve the house in Rome where John Keats died. He tells Robert Underwood Johnson that he thinks it would be appropriate to buy the house and establish a memorial to Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-05

Theodore Roosevelt has the four volumes already, but the four that Charles William Gordon has sent will take a “permanent place” in Roosevelt’s library.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-01

Theodore Roosevelt does not wish to be a plutocrat except in the occasional instance he would like to be able to purchase something like a hunting trip in Alaska or Africa. Roosevelt cannot think of paying for the hunting library suggested by William A. Baillie-Grohman because $15,000 is a large amount of money to put toward the education of his six children.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-28

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Edward J. Anderson for having written. He hopes to be able to travel to the Pacific Coast sometime during his term of office, and would be pleased to visit Anderson and view his house and library at that time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-06-28

Sarah Eleanor Thompson asks Theodore Roosevelt to donate to the Illinois Woman’s College library.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-27

Edward Stanford Martin requests an autograph from Theodore Roosevelt on behalf of the Harvard Club of New York to add to their library collection, they are requesting Roosevelt sign his lectures on “Applied Ethics.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-20

Arthur W. Gate asks Theodore Roosevelt to consider making a monetary donation to the Canadian Free Library for the Blind.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-16

Charles Rufus Skinner asks Theodore Roosevelt for a letter of introduction to library director John Shaw Billings to discuss the organization of a teachers’ library.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-25

Virginia Stuart Lipscomb has seen news of Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming speaking tour, and invites him to come speak at the Hopkinsville City Library, which she manages.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-07

Harriet Douglas Robinson Wolryche-Whitmore thanks President Roosevelt for speaking at the dedication of the library in Jordanville, New York. She was especially pleased with the way that he spoke about her and Douglas Robinson’s parents. She has heard that Roosevelt intends to travel abroad after next March, and hopes that he can spare some time to visit her and her husband Henry Bazeley Wolryche-Whitmore.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-23

Douglas Robinson, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law, looks forward to his and Edith’s visit and deeply appreciates them coming. He lays out travel plans and the day’s itinerary leading to the program at the library. Robinson has said nothing about Roosevelt’s attendance at the event.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-24

Frances M. Wolcott informs President Roosevelt of the work done by the archaeologist Giacomo Boni in Rome and of lectures he has recently given in England. Boni is trying to raise money for a library at the Roman Forum. Wolcott wonders if a lecture tour in the United States would be worthwhile, and if so, how to go about arranging it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-29

Andrew Carnegie sends President Roosevelt newspaper clippings from the London Times discussing Roosevelt’s step toward reforming the English language. Professor Walter W. Skeat and the other British philologists approve and welcome Roosevelt’s actions. Carnegie is working with Skeat to create a joint committee to work on the language reforms and would like Roosevelt’s approval “so that the whole English-speaking race should march forward in unison.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-10

Charles Oman thanks President Roosevelt for recommending the writings of David-Leon Cahun, and discusses historical military strategies from the Mongols, the Islamic Empire in the 13th century, and horsebowman, in particular.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-22

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

B.S. Reynolds Co.

Language

English